Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss Information

| language = English | country = United Kingdom | budget = £400,000 }} Butterfly Kiss is a 1995 British film, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It stars Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves. It was also released under the alternative title Killer on the Road. The film was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot

Set on the bleak motorways of Lancashire, Butterfly Kiss tells the story of Eunice (Plummer), a bisexual serial killer, and Miriam (Reeves), a naive, innocent and lonely young girl who falls under her spell.

Miriam runs away from home and meets Eunice, who soon completely dominates her, leading her into sex and murder. At a truckstop, Eunice first offers the unwilling Miriam to a trucker for sex, then rescues her in mid-rape by murdering the driver. When the hitchhiking duo are picked up by another licentious male, Miriam returns to their motel room to find Eunice and their benefactor having rough sex in the shower. Mistaking the consensual sex with the rape from which Eunice earlier rescued her, Miriam returns the favor by beating their benefactor to death with the hand-held showerhead, to Eunice's delight. Eunice finally brings Miriam to the ocean, where she has Miriam murder her.

Main cast

Actor	Role
Amanda Plummer	Eunice
Saskia Reeves	Miriam
Kathy Jamieson	Wendy
Des McAleer	Eric McDermott
Lisa Riley	Danielle
Freda Dowie	Elsie
Paula Tilbrook	Ella
Fine Time Fontayne	Tony
Joanne Cook	Angela
Elizabeth McGrath	Waitress
Shirley Vaughan	Waitress
Paul Bown	Gary
Emily Aston	Katie
Ricky Tomlinson	Robert
Katy Murphy	Judith
Adele Lawson	Wife
Jeffrey Longmore	Husband
Suzy Yannis	Motel receptionist
Julie Walker	Shop assistant

Reception

Film critic Roger Ebert noted that the characters' names are shortened to 'Mi' and 'Eu' throughout the film, suggesting that they may represent "parts of a schizophrenic personality."

Variety called it "An often breathtakingly original meld of road movie, lesbian love story, psychodrama and black comedy".

Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss Information

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