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from the issue of November 3, 2005
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At the Ross
"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" opens at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on Nov. 4 and continues through Nov.10.
"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress," by Paris-based writer-director Dau Sjie, is from his best-selling autobiographical novel.
"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" is set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's "Cultural Revolution," as two city-bred teenage best friends, Luo (Kun Chen) and Ma (Ye Liu), are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. The sons of "reactionary intellectuals" manage to find diversions and both fall in love with the local beauty, the daughter of the most renowned tailor in the region. They never know her name, referring to her only as "the Little Seamstress," but she captivates them with her innocence and sensuality.
Eventually, Luo and the seamstress become lovers, but their romance comes to an abrupt end when he is recalled home and she finds herself pregnant.
Show times are available at www.TheRoss.org, or by calling the MRRMAC film information line at 472-5353.
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