In 1995, the young Taiwanese woman writer Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in Paris’s Montmartre district, leaving behind the autobiographical novel LAST WORDS IN MONTMARTRE. Two decades later, the novel was published in English by the prestigious New York Review Books, bringing Qiu renown in Western literary circles and quickly prompting translations into other European languages. Qiu is considered the first openly lesbian novelist in the history of Chinese literature; her debut novel, NOTES OF A CROCODILE, became a “Bible” for the Taiwanese lesbian community and an underground classic in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with an official edition finally published in 2012. DEATH IN MONTMARTRE travels through Taiwan, Paris, and New York to trace the life of this literary star who enjoyed fame only after her death, interviewing literary masters from Taiwan, France, and the U.S. while discussing LGBTQ culture and lesbian literature from a perspective of equality.
盖伊(法利·格兰杰 Farley Granger 饰)拥有一段并不幸福的婚姻,他的妻子乔伊斯(凯茜·罗杰斯 Kasey Rogers 饰)是一个水性杨花的浪女,盖伊对妻子的不忠恨之入骨。布鲁诺(罗伯特·沃克 Robert Walker 饰)常年受到专横的父亲安东尼先生(乔纳森·哈勒 Jonathan Hale 饰)的压制,忍无可忍的他逐渐起了杀心。就是这样的两个倒霉男人,他们在一列火车上相遇了。互诉衷肠之后,布鲁诺提出了交换杀人的建议,企图给警方造成无动机的假象。盖伊以为布鲁诺只是开玩笑呢,不置可否,哪知道没过几天,乔伊斯竟然真的死于非命。布鲁诺完成了他的承诺,下面轮到盖伊了。
影片讲述了重案组刑警和黑道女人之间的故事,影片由拍摄《新世界》的制片公司兄弟影业打造,邀请《8月的圣诞节》的编剧吴升旭执导。