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Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressYour Score0 out of 10User Score7.3 out of 10Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
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Nov 2, 20110This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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The ethereal private moments and inspired passages are beautifully shot by Jean-Marie Dreujou, but Dai never quite organizes the material dramatically, and the tone is too often jagged and disruptive.
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70A visually lush and very Westernized vision of life in a remote Chinese village in the early 1970s.
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70Though the film lacks some of the paper incarnation's subtlety, Dai's infidelity to his own text keeps things interesting. He busts the book's brief time frame, tweaks countless plot points, and tops it all off with a titanic metaphor not found in his own pages.