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Dominican Rep. The Little Chinese Seamstress
- Original title
- Xiao cai fengaka
- AKA
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- Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 116 min.
- Country
China- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Zhou Xun
Chen Kun
Ye Liu
Wang Shuangbao
Wang Hongwei
Cong Zhijun
Xiao Xiong- Ang Zouhui
Chen Wei- Chen Tianju
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production China-France;
- Genre
- Drama. Romance. Comedy | Romantic Drama. Chinese Cultural Revolution. 1970s. Small Town Life (Non-North American)
- Synopsis
- Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They work with the peasants under the supervision of the village head man (Wang Shuangbao), who considers their violin to be a symbol of the bourgeoisie. Luo and Ma both fall in love with the little Chinese seamstress (Ziiou Xun), the daughter of the tailor (Chung Zhijun), and they read her forbidden works of Western literature including French writers Balzac and Dumas. The conclusion finds the two men reminincing about their experiences 30 years later.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2002: Golden Globes: Nominated Foreign Language Film2005: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Foreign Films (In alphabetical order).
- Critics' reviews
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"A fine, gentle film love story and a cinematic tribute to the power and manifold benefits of communications between different cultures and nations"
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"A meditation on literature, love and remembrance that is able to find humor and hope in the dark days of the Cultural Revolution"
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"A visually lush and very Westernized vision of life in a remote Chinese village in the early 1970s"
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