Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress

– During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.20 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 50 Minutes
Release Year:
2002
Original Name:
巴尔扎克与小裁缝
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) - Also known as 巴尔扎克与小裁缝

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

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Release Date:

09 Oct 2002

Language:

Mandarin, French

Director:

Sijie Dai

Writer:

Sijie Dai (novel), Sijie Dai (screenplay), Nadine Perront

Main Actors:

Xun Zhou, Ye Liu, Kun Chen, Shuangbao Wang

Plot:

In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two university students, Luo and Ma, are sent to a mountain mining village as part of their reeducation duty to purge them of their classical western oriented education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the presence of the beautiful local young women are the only pleasant things in their miserable life. However, none compare to the young seamstress granddaughter of the local tailor. Stealing a departing student's secret cache of forbidden books of classic western literature such as the works of Honore de Balzac, they set about to woo her and teach her things she had never imagined. In doing so, they start a journey that would profoundly change her perspective on her world and teach the boys about the power of literature and their own ability to change their world in truly revolutionary ways.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 8 nominations.

Gross profit:

$302,458

Production:

Soda Pictures Ltd.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
Metacritic:
65%