Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

This is an adaptation of the best selling novel of the same name about two young men in the mountains of China in the early 1970s. They are sent to be “reeducated” and shown the hard work involved in rural life. They meet a beautiful and captivating girl and has them taking on an education project of their own. They read to her from hidden and forbidden novels by Balzac and Flaubert. Filled with fine performances, this lyrical film has a delicacy rarely found in cinema today.

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