Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Based On the book by Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (simplified Chinese: 巴尔扎克与小裁缝; traditional Chinese: 巴爾扎克與小裁縫; French: Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) is a 2002 Franco-Chinese romance drama film with dialogue in the Sichuan dialect directed by Dai Sijie and starring Zhou Xun, Chen Kun and Liu Ye. It premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival on 16 May. Based on the 2000 semi-autobiographical novel of the same title by Dai, the film revolves around two young Chinese boys of bourgeois background who were sent to a remote village in Sichuan province for three years of re-education during the Cultural Revolution. They both fell in love with a beautiful local girl, granddaughter of an old tailor and known to everyone as the Little Seamstress.

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Release date:

2002

Director:

Dai Sijie

Cast:

Zhou Xun, Liu Ye, Chen Kun, Wang Hongwei

Genre:

Romance, Drama

Country:

France, People's Republic of China

Language:

Mandarin

Year page:

2002 in adaptations