Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

  • Director: Sijie Dai
  • Writer: Sijie Dai,Nadine Perront
  • Countries of origin: France, China
  • Language: Mandarin, French
  • Release date: October 9, 2002
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, DTS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: The Little Chinese Seamstress
  • "Balzac and the Little Tailor" is a romantic film directed by Dai Sijie and starring Zhou Xun , Aloys Chen and Liu Ye . The film was released in France on May 16, 2002   .
    The film revolves around Balzac 's novel and tells the story of the educated youth in the 1970s   .

    Details

    • Release date October 9, 2002
    • Filming locations Fenghuan, Hunan, China
    • Production companies Les Productions Internationales Le Film, StudioCanal, France 3 Cinéma

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $666,327

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $16,694

    Gross worldwide

    $5,209,555

    Movie reviews

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    • By Zelda 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      woman traveling

      Balzac and the little tailor, who were watching the passionate play of Chen Kun and Zhou Xun, did not expect to see that men knew nothing about women.

      The two educated youths love a beautiful and pure little tailor, Luo Ming loves the directness, and Ma Jianling loves the far distance. They both dream of changing this woman.

      Luo Ming worried that when he returned to the city for two months, the little tailor would be chased by other men, and asked Ma Jianling to help him...

    • By Barton 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      book in box

      You can't know the joy of freedom, and it's worth the danger, pain, and even life in exchange. To be free, to feel that all the minds around you are free, even the shameless ones, is an indescribable joy. It is as if your soul is swimming in the boundless space, so that the soul cannot live elsewhere.

      foreign:

      Balzac: "Beautiful", "Usur Miroi", "Old Man"

    • By Damian 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      Why let Balzac take the blame?

      I was studying Balzac recently, so I found this movie and thought it was a story about Balzac and a tailor, but I didn't expect the text to be wrong.

      In the dark and depressing Cultural Revolution era, a violin and several bourgeois novels became their only pleasures. The love of two men and a woman was running wild, and some people were destined to quit, but no one expected that it was the heroine who left cruelly.

      This movie may be about feminism, maybe about love, maybe about...

    • By Felipe 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      "Balzac and the Little Tailor" - There must be a love triangle in a threesome

      Movies with a strong sense of the times can always make people feel the insignificance of little people in front of the wheel of history. They are either dragged around by their necks or whipped away with whips, like "Alive" and "Farewell My Concubine"; The person is on the tide of the times and drifts with the flow, either to seek pleasure in the cracks of stealing and slipping, or to let the wind...

    • By Michele 2022-04-23 07:04:42

      Is literature really that powerful?

      This is a time-honored story. Two educated youths went to the countryside for re-education. They met a simple and bold but uneducated girl, and the three forged friendship and love. In that era when there was no reading, only manual labor and depressing thoughts, three young people stole a box of foreign literature to read together, and felt the power of literature, knowledge and freedom of thought. In the end, the girl was inspired by Balzac and went out of the mountains to find her new...

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    • By Burley 2023-09-14 06:17:59

      In fact, Dai Sijie's early works were okay, but when he got to "The Chinese Girl in the Botanical Garden", he became so brainless. I really don't know what he...

    • By Wendy 2023-08-26 08:24:16

      Only Chen Kun and other actors speak authentic Chongqing dialect. What kind of language are Liu Ye and Zhou Xun's accents? It's simply not convincing. The front of the movie is still a bit interesting, but the back is really on pins and needles, and the handling is so fucked up. I feel like the writer is a little...

    • By Trisha 2023-08-19 03:17:35

      Sometimes a good book can change a person's mind and change a person's...

    • By Nora 2023-08-11 02:12:31

      The next two editions are dubbed in French, and I watched a Chinese film while listening to the birdsong. Brother Xun's French dubbing is terrible. From the first time the story was cut back to reality, there was a huge crack, which was very abrupt and went unfinished. ps this can be seen as a...

    • By Vaughn 2023-08-07 18:02:25

      Culturally bad, but foreigners like it. Didn't you want the poor and lower-middle peasants to educate your educated youth, but as a result, the poor and lower-middle peasants were educated by their Balzac and Van Curlin. Emotionally good, I love...

    Movie plot

    In China in the 1970s, educated youths Luo Ming ( Aloys Chen ) and Ma Jianling ( Liu Ye ) were good friends. Influenced by their family backgrounds, the two had to go to the countryside to a small mountain village in western Hunan ( Phoenix Mountain ). Re-educate the poor and lower-middle peasants. Tired of the poor life in the country, the young and vigorous duo seek pleasure all day long. At this time, they met Mr. Four Eyes, known...
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    The film is known for its freshness and uniqueness. Although it expresses that crazy era, it cuts in from another angle, making the heavy history an object of good-natured jokes. The details that are almost joking combine a little light humor with a bitter aftertaste. Bring it to the audience. (Time.com, Sina Entertainment Review) 
    "Balzac and the Little Tailor" is a film that recalls the Cultural Revolution. Those sufferings that...
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