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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (12)

• Director: Dai Sijie
• Genre: Drama / Romance
• Starring: Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Xun Zhou
• Country: France / China
• Language: Mandarin / French (English Subtitles)
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• Running time: 110 mins
• Release date: 09 May 2003
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Synopsis

Based on writer-director Dai Sijie's bestselling autobiographical novel of the same name, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a beguiling love story set during the 1970's Cultural Revolution.

Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two bourgeois young men from the city are sent to a remote, culturally barren mountain village for re-education in Maoist principles. Discovering a hidden cache of books by western writers

such as Flaubert, Dumas and Balzac. the pair transmit their love of art and literature to the knowledge hungry local seamstress (the commanding Xun Zhou, Beijing Bicycle, Suzhou River), with whom they both promptly fall in love.

DVD Extras

Making of Featurette, Interviews, Cast and Crew Biographies, Stills Gallery, Trailer Reel