The Girl from Nagasaki
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| Directed by | Michel Comte |
| Produced by | Michel Comte Ayako Yoshida Amy Filbeck |
| Written by | Michel Comte Anne-Marie Mackay |
| Starring | Mariko Wordell Edoardo Ponti Christopher Lee Michael Wincott Michael Nyqvist Polina Semionova Ayako Yoshida |
| Music by | Luigi Ceccarelli Alessandro Cipriani |
| Cinematography | Pierluigi Malavasi |
| Edited by | Nick Tamburri |
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M4 Films AG
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107 minutes |
| Country | Italy Germany Japan United States |
| Language | English Japanese |
The Girl from Nagasaki is a 2013 romantic musical drama film directed by Michel Comte.[1][2] The film had its premiere as the closing night film of the 2013 Naples International Film Festival on November 9, 2013.[3] The film later screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014.[4]
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Plot
The film is a reworking of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, in which the tragic heroine is obsessed with an American pilot.
Cast
- Mariko Wordell as Cho-Cho San
- Edoardo Ponti as Officer Pinkerton
- Christopher Lee as Old Officer Pinkerton
- Michael Wincott as Goro
- Michael Nyqvist as Father Lars
- Polina Semionova as Cho-Cho San's Alter Ego
- Ayako Yoshida as Suzuki
- Robert Evans as U.S. Consul
- Clemens Schick as Prince Yamadori
- Nobu Matsuhisa as Cho-Cho San's father
- Lisa Zane as Jazz singer
- Sasha Alexander as Adelaide
Reception
"The Girl from Nagasaki" received mixed reviews from critics. Marshall Fine in his review for Huffington Post said that "staging is avant-garde, bloody and surreal, with elements of modern dance, classical tableaux, kabuki and opera, as well as conventional melodrama. Comte returns often to that staged version to emphasize the action or outline it in a more symbolic way."[5] While, Dan Schindel in his review for Movie Mezzanine said that "Feels like every derisive joke about art house cinema brought to unironic life."[6]
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