Seward Park

Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress (Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) 
Directed by Dai Sijie, 2022, France-China
With Zhou Xun, Liu Ye, Chen Kun 
Film in Mandarin with English subtitles

In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two university students are sent to a remote mountain village for re-education to purge them of their classical western-oriented education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the local tailor’s seamstress granddaughter are the only pleasant things in their miserable life. After discovering a secret cache of forbidden books, they set about teaching her things she had never imagined. 

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