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Dai Sijie - The Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

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It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.

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In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.

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Born: March 2, 1954 (age 71)
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