Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

A tailor-made love story.

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Director

Dai Sijie

Writers

Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront

Themes1970sbalzacbased on memoir or autobiographychinacultural revolutiondressmakerlove of one's lifemountain villagesichuanviolin