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Why in Beijing Opera are women's roles traditionally played by men? Comrade Chin: I don't know. Most probably a remnant of the reactionary and patriarchal social structure ... Comrade Song: No. It's because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. -From M Butterfly (Dir. David Cronenberg, 1993) One of the many highlights of the 2018 Venice Film Festival was the ceremony awarding the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to David Cronenberg. I was thrilled watching the ceremony in the Sala Grande, the theater in the Palazzo del Cinema, the walls of which were now covered with projected white lights on a blue background, recalling stars in the nighttime sky. Guillermo Del Toro presented Cronenberg with the award, and stated, almost tearfully, the influence that Cronenberg's work has had on his career. Cronenberg then screened his own 1993 film M Butterfly, a story about love that blinds us from the truth allowing us to see only what we want to see. In M Butterfly, a French diplomat, Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons), falls in love with Song Liling (John Lone), a female impersonator from the Beijing Opera-and chooses not to perceive what is evident to all the viewers of the film. T

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Author

Vera Dika

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)