Night Peacock (2016)

Release Date: 2016-05-20
Runtime: 1h 25min
Production Company: China Film Group Corporation
Production Country: China
Director: Dai Sijie

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.