The Little Chinese Seamstress / Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
- Directed by
- Sijie Dai
How it feels
Two young intellectuals are sent to a remote mountain camp for reeducation during China's Cultural Revolution. They befriend a local seamstress and share forbidden Western novels with her, which stirs up dreams of escape and romance.
melancholiclongingnostalgicintimatebittersweetpoeticslow-burnyearning
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