Movie
Night Peacock
2016 · 85 min
A quiet, poetic romance that drifts between two countries, asking you to sit with its melancholy and its meditation on love and mortality.
- Directed by
- Dai Sijie
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Starring
- Liu Yifei, Leon Lai Ming, Liu Ye
- Overview
- Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time. A night peacock, by Fabre’s definition, is a moth with the life goal of finding their soul mate.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, romantic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, death, identity, fate
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Dai Sijie
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Starring
- Liu Yifei, Leon Lai Ming, Liu Ye
