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Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

2 Ratings: 3.0

Art House & International and Drama movie directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou

Inspired by Albert Lamorisse's classic 1956 Academy Award®-Winning short*, Flight of the Red Balloon is the latest masterwork from director Hou Hsiao Hsien (Three Times, Millennium Mambo). Expanding on the key elements of Lamorisse's short … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Drama Movies, Foreign Movies, French Movies

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu, Louise Margolin, Fang Song

Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou

Genre: Foreign

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review by ZeeDan. December 17, 2008

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Engaging, Subtle Film - Time Well Spent

Oh did I ever enjoy this film. It was a wonderful slow time with several characters that I thoroughly enjoyed. I write slow on purpose, to set the viewer's expectations. This film moves along at a rythm that is very particular, very deliberate, and, to me and my family, perfect. There is a subtlty here that either draws you in deeply, or pushes you far away. I can't see a middle ground with The Flight Of The Red Balloon. Two adults, a 12 and 17 year old agree that this is … more

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review by gradyharp. August 24, 2008

An Extemporaneous Homage to Albert Lamorisse's THE RED BALLOON

Somewhere the highly regarded Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien had the idea of paying homage to the 1956 classic Albert Lamorisse film THE RED BALLOON, a tender story of a child's interaction with a nearly animate floating balloon, and while there is indeed an short introduction of a small boy addressing an errant red balloon floating in Paris, the 'homage' stops there. What follows is an overly long, frustratingly impromptu series of scenes that lack cohesion and resolution. THE … more

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