It's been 20 plus years since I watched this masterpiece. I disagree strongly with the trash talk by the general run of reviewers who are blinded by this film's brilliance because they're shocked... mind you shocked to find European standards applied to an American film. I was riveted from the first frame to the last... and feel that Pia certainly deserved her golden globe... and for Orson, the final act was his greatest. In the end, Butterfly is an artistic effort by a fine ensemble that left me wordlessly wandering the streets of Port Townsend rejoicing that Hollywood had not completely sold out to the censors and bigots who had been squelching creativity in American cinema since the implementation of "the Hollywood production code" that had seemed to forever have doomed Hollywood's efforts to second-rate melodramas.
Review of Butterfly
