Butterfly Kiss
| Butterfly Kiss | |
|---|---|
Frank Cottrell Boyce Michael Winterbottom | |
| Produced by | Julie Baines Sarah Daniel |
| Starring | Amanda Plummer Saskia Reeves |
| Cinematography | Seamus McGarvey |
| Edited by | Trevor Waite |
| Music by | John Harle |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £400,000 |
Butterfly Kiss (alternative title Killer on the Road) is a 1995 British film, directed by
Plot
Set on the bleak motorways of
Miriam runs away from home and meets Eunice, and soon becomes her lover and accomplice. At a truck stop, Eunice first offers the unwilling Miriam to a trucker for sex, then rescues her in mid-rape by murdering the driver. When the hitchhiking duo are picked up by another licentious man, Miriam returns to their motel room to find Eunice and their benefactor having rough sex in the shower. Mistaking the consensual sex for the rape from which Eunice earlier rescued her, Miriam returns the favor by beating their benefactor to death with the hand-held showerhead, to Eunice's delight. Eunice finally brings Miriam to the ocean, where she makes Miriam kill her.
Cast
- Amanda Plummer as Eunice
- Saskia Reeves as Miriam
- Kathy Jamieson as Wendy
- Des McAleer as Eric McDermott
- Lisa Riley as Danielle
- Freda Dowie as Elsie
- Paula Tilbrook as Ella
- Fine Time Fontayne as Tony
- Joanne Cook as Angela
- Elizabeth McGrath as Waitress
- Shirley Vaughan as Waitress
- Paul Bown as Gary
- Emily Aston as Katie
- Ricky Tomlinson as Robert
- Katy Murphy as Judith
Soundtrack
- "Walkin' Back to Happiness" Helen Shapiro
- "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor
- "Ridiculous Thoughts" The Cranberries
- "You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me" The New Seekers
- "Silly Games" Janet Kay
- "Away" The Cranberries
- "Leavin' On Your Mind" Patsy Cline
- "Trouble" Shampoo
- "There's More To Life Than This" Björk
- "I Don't Need" The Cranberries
- "Stay" Shakespeare's Sister
- "Missed" PJ Harvey
- "Jewel" Marcella Detroit
- "World In Motion" New Order
- "No Need To Argue"' The Cranberries
Reception
Film critic Roger Ebert, in a positive review, noted that the characters' names are shortened to "Mi" and "Eu" throughout the film, suggesting that they may represent "parts of a schizophrenic personality."[2]
Variety called it "An often breathtakingly original meld of road movie, lesbian love story, psychodrama and black comedy".[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Berlinale: 1995 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 2 August 2007.
- ^ Elley, Derek (16 February 1995). "Butterfly Kiss". Variety. Retrieved 2 August 2007.
- ^ "The Billen Interview Andrew Billen meets Saskia Reeves", The Guardian, 6 August 1995
External links
- Butterfly Kiss at IMDb
- Butterfly Kiss at Rotten Tomatoes
