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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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Key Information
Directors: Dai Sijie
Actors: Cong Zhijun
Genre: Foreign Films
Subgenre: Chinese · Storytelling · Chinese/Mandarin · Theatrical Release
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Available Formats: DVD: French
UPC: 843171005784
Release Date: 2005
Running Time: 1hr 51min
Languages
Release Language: English (Subtitled)
Original Language: French
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: French
Release Company: Paradox Entertainment (May 13, 2008)
UPC: 773933174420
Credits
Screenwriter: Dai Sijie
Professional Reviews
: (07/29/2005, p.E11, A. O. Scott): "[T]here is very little bitterness in his reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution, but rather a sense of resilience touched with sentimentality, and a suffusing fondness for youth, beauty and literature."
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Details: First love and growing intellectual awareness memorably intertwine in BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS, a coming-of-age story set in a remote mountain village during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1970s. Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), close friends and sons of well-off parents deemed "enemies of the people," are sent from their urban homes to be reeducated in a small village. Their tough new existence is enlivened only by Ma's virtuoso violin playing and their burgeoning friendship with the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. She is known as the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xun Zhou), and as Luo sets his sight on romance, he declares he doesn't want to know her real name. Luo embarks on a reeducation of the Little Seamstress, vowing to cure her of her provincial ways. Their "school" consists of a stolen suitcase full of banned Western novels, many by French writers, which opens their eyes and hearts to the wonders of the outside world. <br> <br> Writer/director Dai Sijie's triumph with hi...
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