Flight of the Red Balloon is in a class by itself. In its unexpected rhythms and visual surprises, its structural innovations and experimental perfs, its creative misunderstandings and its outré syntheses, this is a movie of genius.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: John Anderson
Because it's one of the most beautiful films ever. Because it's a work of art on the order of a poem by Yeats or a painting by Rothko.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Juliette Binoche is outstanding as a wildly untogether single mother who parks her son with a French-speaking Chinese nanny while she whirls and worries.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
It's both happy and sad. That's exactly the way to describe Hou's marvelous film as well.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
The camera is so unobtrusive and the acting so naturalistic that it takes a while for a narrative to emerge. When it finally does, you're surprised to find you're deeply invested in the characters.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
In the end what elevates Mr. Hou’s films to the sublime -- and this one comes close at times -- are not the stories but their telling.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The subject is the privileged state of childhood itself - how we're all lucky to have had it and how it so easily floats away from our grasp.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
A meditation on art, life, loneliness and the links between friends and strangers, the movie has a grace and humor that's wonderfully inviting.Read Full Review »
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