Nocturnal Butterflies

Nocturnal Butterflies

Nocturnal Butterflies

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Nocturnal Butterflies

1997

0h 8m

5.9(9 votes)

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Nocturnal Butterflies is Servais' serene and melancholic homage to Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), whose architectural paintings serve as the basis for the mise-en-scène for the film, and whose opaquely gazed women represent the enigmatic, silent witnesses who guard the secrets of the eccentric artist's curious world of precisely rendered, hermetic construction.

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Directed by: Raoul Servais
Written by: Raoul Servais

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