Where to Watch Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) in the US

What it's about

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.

Cast and crew

Director

Sijie Dai

Writer

Sijie Dai, Nadine Perront

Starring

Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu

Details

Release date

Oct 9, 2002

Language

Mandarin, French

Country

France, China

Box office

$666,327

Awards

1 win & 9 nominations total

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