Sunday, December 21, 2014

Xiao cai feng (2002)

 
Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.
 
A poetic, subtle hymn to the value of literature and art over the vagaries of a political system.
 
Halliwell**: "Based on a semi-autobiographical novel published in Paris, this is a lyrical, nostalgic, gently satirical drama on the power of literature to free the mind."


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