Film Screening: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

Date: Friday 31st October, 2008
Film Screening: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Date: Friday 31st October, 2008
Time: 18:30pm
Venue: G11, Confucius Institute, Kingsway

Plot Summery:
During the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1971, the sons of two allegedly reactionary doctors are sent to a remote village on the fictional mountain Phoenix of the Sky to be 're-educated' by hard work and peasant living. There, the two characters meet the local tailor's daughter (the Little Seamstress) and discover a collection of various translated Western novels hidden by another city boy sent to the country for re-education, Four-Eyes. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, they find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.
they never imagined.