A Chinese Movie in By Towne Cinima, Worth to Watch

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

(Story set in Sichuan during Cultural Revolution. Worth to watch. Show times: Sat. 9:30, Sun: 3:45, Mon: 9:15 and Tues: 7:00 at Bytowne Cinema: http://ottawa.film-can.com/cgi-bin/REP/BYTO/index.cgi?LIMIT=7.)

Starring: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Liu Ye
Director: Dai Sijie

In Mandarin (Sichuan dialect) With English subtiles)
Two young Chinese men working at a re-education camp fall for the same young woman, and romance her with the European literature, music and poetry which they are able to illicitly acquire

Home page for the movie in French:
http://www.bacfilms.com/balzac/

 

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[hl2002]

thanks, it's very good movie

I just watched it, the whole movie is like a poem.
The dialog are in Sichuan dialect, which is unusual.
Look arround the cinema, most native(I mean visibal majority)come for this movie are senior.
It's good to see people showing interest in this movie.
BTW, bytown cinema is an interesting place to discover.