balzac and the little chinese seamstress

some annoying parts about the film were: exaggeration of the "power of literature;" at the end we learn that what balzac taught to our little chinese seamstress was the priceless treasure of woman being her beauty' the constant division of savages vs. civilized.
if you can watch the film overlooking these parts, if it's ever possible, then it becomes a sweet love story with nice anecdotes (flaubert's pic taken for marx, stalin or lenin, our character fooling the chief by titling his song "mozart is thinking of mao" or the chief shouting "down with bourgeois chicken!")


here i'd also like to remind (a point of agreement between me and the film):
"Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because, far from rejecting the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, it has, on the contrary, assimilated and refashioned everything of value in the more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture. Only further work on this basis and in this direction, inspired by the practical experience of this proletarian dictatorship as the finals stage in the struggle against every form of exploitation, can be recognized as the development of a genuine proletarian culture." Lenin, On Proletarian Culture