Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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- Synopsis
- Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The Little Chinese Seamstress), a film adaptation of his own best-selling autobiographical novel....
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- Starring
- Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Wang Shuangbao, Chung Zhijun
- Director(s)
- Dai Sijie
- Distributor(s)
- Empire Pictures
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 111 min.
Critic Reviews
Sweet, funny, sad and profound -- the sort of film that becomes more remarkable when you realize it's based on someone's real life.Read the full review
For an exquisitely melancholy story steeped in a sense of the past as a succession of great waves of political, ideological and economic change, it's fitting that the movie should end with an underwater sequence. It looks like a dream of a memory of a place about to be wiped out by the next great flood of history.Read the full review
If the movie is straightforward and predictable in its attitude, it also exudes a sort of documentary lyricism.Read the full review
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