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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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During China's Cultural Revolution, two young intellectuals from the city are sent to the remote Phoenix Mountains for re-education, where they fall for forbidden fruit. Dai Sijie directs this 2002 comic drama. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Review page 54.

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