![]() ![]() "Exquisite! A love song to great literature. "Sweet, funny, sad and profound!" - San Francisco Chronicle "Breath-taking, funny, erotic and altogether bewitching!"- Elle Magazine GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION: Best Foreign Film In this marvelous French and Chinese production, writer and director Dai Sijie journeys back to the years of 1971-1974 when two bourgeoisie young men from the. Starring Zhou Xun (周迅), Liu Ye (劉燁), Chen Kun (陳坤). With a secret cache of forbidden books, they set about to woo her. But none compare to the granddaughter of the region’s tailor. Amid the back-breaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the local beauties are the only respite from their miserable life. ![]() Neither is even a high school graduate yet, but as the sons of doctors they are suspicious - obviously tainted. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is part of The Empire DVD Collectionīased on the best-selling novel set during China's cultural revolution, this acclaimed film is about two young men, university students, who are sent to a remote mountain village for a Maoist re-education, to purge them of their decadent Western education. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress describes the lives of the narrator and his close friend Luo during those years, as they are sent to a remote region for re-education by the peasants in 1971, when they are in their late teens. ![]()
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