China Synopsis
巴尔扎克与小裁缝
“A tailor-made love story.”
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
The 2001–2003 China Window
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress holds position #16 of 30 China films in the 2001–2003 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in China, 142 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress premiered alongside 12 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 12 other China films in 2002.
The 93rd China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Audience Engagement
57 audience reviews — more than 67% of China films in our index.
Review volume (67th percentile) outruns trending popularity (46th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- mountain village · 5
- violin · 4
- dressmaker · 2
- sichuan · 2
- balzac · 1
- 1970s · 19
- cultural revolution · 10
- love of one's life · 8
- based on memoir or autobiography · 6
- china · 127
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #387 of 946 China films indexed here (59th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.2 points above the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Drama productions specifically: #242 of 547 (top 44%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, France |
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Production Companies | Les Films de la Suane, Le Film |
| Runtime | 1h 56m |
| Release Date | May 16, 2002 |
| IMDb | tt0291032 |