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Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons stars as a French diplomat who falls in love with a Beijing Opera singer--who is not what the Frenchman thinks "she" is--in this tale of love and betrayal.
Miscast, misguided screen-adaptation of hit Broadway play about Caucasian French Intelligence Official in 1960's China who becomes obsessed with a mysterious Chinese opera singer. Jeremy Irons would seem to be a good man for the lead, but his character is an unconvincing jumble of moods and the performance turns into a series of faint little twitches; John Lone appears to be a most confident and intriguing screen actor, but he is not drag material. A subplot about a pregnancy is confounding, making the Frenchman look like an immature dupe, and for what purpose? (that story thread is dropped almost as quickly as it is brought up). The movie is artificially handsome, with a pretty (if familiar) background score and overripe Chinese decor. If the intention was to create a deliberately artificial scenario to match a distinctly unlikely story, the results might be called a success.
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