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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) | User Rating
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Original title: Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise
Release Date
• USA: Nov 14, 2002
• UK: 9 May 2003
BoxOffice: $0.3M
Official Website:
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Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country France, China
Studio Empire Pictures
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Other Titles
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
• Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise
• The Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Love
Plot: Based on the international best-seller, BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS is set in the early 1970's during the later stages of China's "Cultural Revolution," as two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. Sons of "reactionary intellectuals," the boys are required to perform arduous manual labor along with locals while under the supervision of the zealous village headman. Still they manage to find diversions. They save Ma's violin from destruction by claiming a Mozart lieder is actually a celebration of Chairman Mao. Because of their literacy, the headman sends them to a larger town to watch imported Albanian and North Korean communist melodramas, and then report back to the culture-starved locals. They embroider the stodgy plots with their own inventions and the villagers are entranced. During one of these trips, the two see and fall in love with the local beauty (Xun Zhou), the daughter of the most renowned tailor in the region. They never know her name, referring to her only as "the Little Seamstress," but she captivates them with her innocence and sensuality. When they discover a hidden suitcase filled with banned books by Western writers, mostly French — Flaubert, Dumas and
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