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Dominican Rep. The Little Chinese Seamstress
2,880
Drama. Romance. Comedy
Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They work with the peasants under the supervision of the village head man (Wang Shuangbao), who considers their violin to be a symbol of the bourgeoisie. Luo and Ma both fall in love with the little Chinese seamstress (Ziiou ... [+]
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"Sweet, funny, sad and profound -- the sort of film that becomes more remarkable when you realize it's based on someone's real life" | ||
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"A fine, gentle film love story and a cinematic tribute to the power and manifold benefits of communications between different cultures and nations" | ||
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"A meditation on literature, love and remembrance that is able to find humor and hope in the dark days of the Cultural Revolution" | ||
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"A lovely little movie about very big things" | ||
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"A visually lush and very Westernized vision of life in a remote Chinese village in the early 1970s" |
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