The Girl from Nagasaki

The Girl from Nagasaki

Film poster
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
Production
company
M4 Films AG
Shotz Fiction Film
Release dates
  • November 9, 2013 (2013-11-09) (Naples International Film Festival)
Running time
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]

Plot

The film is a reworking of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, in which the tragic heroine is obsessed with an American pilot.

Cast

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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