Movie Details
Original Language:Chinese
Cast & Crew
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Qiu Miaojin
as Self (archival footage)
A
Ari Larissa Heinrich
as Self
B
Bonnie Huie
as Self
Love and Death in Montmartre
Audience Score
StarringQiu MiaojinAri Larissa HeinrichBonnie Huie
DirectorEvans Chan
1 hr 50 min
Plot
Part literary documentary, part fantasy romance, LOVE & DEATH IN MONTMARTRE explores the life and work of lesbian Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin, whose suicide at age 26 devastated a generation of queer youth and whose ardent claim to her own right to love accelerated the movement for queer rights in Taiwan. Largely told through Qiu’s own words, we are shown a young woman’s longing not just for another’s love but for herself. In the face of a society’s suppression of sapphism, she writes and lives furiously.
