28 June, 2011

The Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)


AKA:
Xiao cai feng France (original title)
巴尔扎克和小裁缝 >> Chinese
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress >> Canada / UK / USA

Synopsis:
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.

Starring:
Xun Zhou
Kun Chen
Ye Liu

Director: Sijie Dai
Part-01            Part-02            Part-03            Part-04            Part-05
Part-06            Part-07            Part-08            Part-09            Part-10

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