Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress

Xiao cai feng. On the upside were beautiful shots of China, interesting elements of the Cultural Revolution and great acting by Xun Zhou, Kun Chen and Ye Liu. On the downside, even though the screenplay was written by Sijie Dai, the film lacked cohesion it should have had and deviations from the book (especially ones later in the story) compromised the original message.