{"id":861,"date":"2012-09-13T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T07:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=861"},"modified":"2012-11-19T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T10:15:38","slug":"balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress\/","title":{"rendered":"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"eventPage\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac_and_the_little_chinese_seamstress.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac_and_the_little_chinese_seamstress-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress\" title=\"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac_and_the_little_chinese_seamstress-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/balzac_and_the_little_chinese_seamstress.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--<h2><\/h2>--><p class=\"archiveTitle\">Friday, 26 October 2012: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress\/\" target=\"_self\">Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"timeDate\">Friday, 26 October 2012, 20:00<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"venue\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Forest Row Village Hall (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/location-and-tickets\/\">Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"strand\"><strong>Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\r<\/p>\n<p>Director: Dai Sijie, France, 2002, 111 mins, 12A<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Revolutionary peasants have no use for your bourgeois reactionary chicken!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Semi autobiographical, this film revolves around two Chinese teenage boys of bourgeois background sent for Maoist \u201cre-education\u201d where they both fall in love with the village tailor\u2019s granddaughter. The three find solace and liberation in a collection of banned translated novels by Western authors, among whom their favourite is Balzac.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Reliving his youth, Dai Sijie finds both joy and sadness in the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution &#8211; sadness in the misery of those years of strict indoctrination, but uplifting joy in the realisation that change can bring freedom.&#8221; <em>BBC Film<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Further Reading<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2003\/may\/11\/philipfrench\">The Observer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeforfilm.co.uk\/review\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress-film-review-by-angus-wolfe-murray\">Eye for Film<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/29\/movies\/29balz.html?ex=1154145600&#038;en=6239a679f07fb31b&#038;ei=5083&#038;partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes&#038;_r=0\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Piece in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/27\/movies\/MoviesFeatures\/27balz.html\">New York Times<\/a> about the transformation from novel to film<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bacfilms.com\/site\/balzac\/\">Interview with the author\/director<\/a> (in French; click on the link &#8220;Le Realisateur&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Trailer<\/h4>\n<p>Note that this trailer does not have English subtitles, though our screening will!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HAoNmidK8Rg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Dai Sijie, France, 2002, 111 mins, 12A &#8220;Revolutionary peasants have no use for your bourgeois reactionary chicken!&#8221; Semi autobiographical, this film revolves around two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863,"parent":703,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861\/revisions\/1267"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}