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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakSchaefer and Lawler pack their rounded vignette of full-frame 16mm film with contradictions, thematic mirrors, and unexplainable phenomena that confounds in its beauty just as easily as it enlightens through its complexity.
- 80Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaIf you like anything David Lynch or any of the surrealist masters, like Luis Bunuel have ever made, then you will like Giving Birth to a Butterfly. It also has a kick of Douglas Sirk/Ranier Fassbinder melodrama which I always love. If these are things you seek out in films, you will be right at home here.
- 60The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe forced profundity of the “Butterfly” script undermines the film’s enthralling sense of atmosphere, which drips with melancholy, menace and wonder.
- 40Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMore often, the weirdness and affectations seem gratuitous. Even for a movie meant to be offbeat, the rhythm is jarringly askew.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe entire enterprise feels like a piece of experimental theater that needs further workshopping before it’s ready for the stage.