This Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Film is based on the experiences and best
selling autobiography of director Dai SiJie, who spent four years in a re-education program instigated during Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution.” Two teenage boys, Ma (Ye Liu) and Luo (Kun Chen), are sent to live on the remote mountain known as Phoenix in the Sky. The boys steal the “subversive” novels of Honore de Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Gogol, and read them to the granddaughter of the local tailor (Xun Zhou). While reading, both boys fall in love with the girl, and, through Balzac, discover awakening desire, passion, impulsive action, love--all the subjects that had, until then, been hidden.

Principal Cast: Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu

Producer: Lise Fayolle
Cinematographer: Jean-Marie Dreujou
Editor: Luc Barnier, Julia Gregory
Music: Pujian Wang

Shows: Saturday, Oct. 8 at 12:55 pm and Monday, Oct. 10 at 4:00 pm

Official Website: www.bacfilms.com/site/balzac/