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November 18, 2005
Coming this weekend: Full Review of OSM
I've got my notes together for a full review of OSM, which launched this week, and used to be called PajamasMedia. I hope to post tomorrow.
At the moment, I'm off to see Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a Chinese film.
Mrs. Chester is out of town, so I get to indulge my love of independent film a little.
UPDATE: Wow. What an incredible film. Amazing. It's about love, the Cultural Revolution in China, and the power of books and ideas to change lives and attitudes. Fantastic. There's also a lot of undercurrents of urban-rural splits and confrontations or encounters with modernity.
Sadly, it was a French film. I don't say that because I don't like French films -- in fact, they are the only French product that I don't boycott. Some are pretty good.
Instead, I was hoping that it would be a Chinese film. Sure, it was in Chinese, and set there, but it was made by the French. I was hoping it would be Chinese because that would be a good sign of the country's willingness to examine its past in a more open way. The whole time I couldn't believe that the film would be shown there, given its content. I guess it probably hasn't been.
I also learned that it's based on a novel by a Chinese expatriate living in France, so that explains a lot. He was in a "re-education" camp in the 1970s, where the film is set. Here's the book if anyone is interested (from the reader reviews, looks like it's as good as the film):
UPDATE: Slight delay on the OSM review. Later today, it's coming.
Posted by Chester at November 18, 2005 9:06 PM
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