Arts and Culture

Send Us a Review!

Have you watched a really good Hong Kong movie recently? Want to share your opinion of the latest Canto-pop stars? Read Wild Swans or Falling Leaves? Perhaps you've recently seen an exhibition of Chinese contemporary art? If it's cultural and you want to share your opinion, send us your review and we'll consider adding it to our page!

Your views count, so get writing and send your review to webmaster@britishchinese.org.uk!

This month's featured movie:

Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress

Director: Dai Sijie
Year: 2002
Starring: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Cong Zhijun
Time: 110mins
Certificate: 12A

Based on the director's best-seller and prize-winning autobiography, the film tells the story of two city boys sent to the country for re-education during the Cultural Revolution.

The boys resign themselves to their fate and soon find themselves doing hard labour in the mines and fields. They befriend the local tailor's grand-daughter, a precocious but endearing girl, who they come to know as the Little Seamstress. It is through her, that Ma and Lao learn the whereabouts of a suitcase of banned books which they steal and hide in a mountain cavern.

Read Simon's full review here.

More reviews...

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 4 out of 5
• Breaking News 3 out of 5
• BCS visit to 'Encounters' at the V&A museum, November '04
• Not One Less 5 out of 5
• Better Luck Tomorrow at the Firecracker Film Festival
• In The Mood For Love 5 out of 5
  
• Eat Drink Man Woman 5 out of 5
  
• The Road Home 4 out of 5
  
• Yellow Earth 3 out of 5
• Back to Arts and Culture index