TITLE: M. BUTTERFLY
DIRECTOR: DAVID CRONENBERG
WRITER: DAVID HENRY HWANG
TITLE: FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE
DIRECTOR: CHEN KAIGE
WRITERS: LILIAN LEE, LU WEI
THE BOTTOM LINE: Two takes on the androgynous East -- one muddled and myopic, the other acute and majestic.
When East meets West in movies, everything can get blurred: male and female, sex and love, performance and reality. In two new films about China, the gender lines are so tangled that it's hard to tell yin from yang. But it's easy to tell hit from miss. Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige's Chinese film that won a top prize at...