Madame Butterfly
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Madame Butterfly
-- International co-production of Puccini's tragic opera set in turn-of-the-century Nagasaki where a callow American naval officer (Richard Troxell) marries then abandons his 15-year-old Japanese bride (Ying Huang) only to return to claim their little son for his new American wife to raise. Director Frederic Mitterrand opens up the stagebound opera format by using outdoor location shooting in a visually lovely film which should be music to opera lovers' ears. Subtitles. Marital desertion and a culturally condoned suicide. (A-III) (nr)
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1996
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.