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Flight of the Red Balloon

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Flight of the Red Balloon
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NR,1hr 54min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
April 4, 2008
Director:
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Distributor:
IFC First Take
Starring:
Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Hippolyte Girardot  ...more
Synopsis: Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (Flight of the Red Balloon), which constitutes celebrated Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first French-language picture, represents both an homage to Albert Lamorisse's beloved 1956 short The Red Balloon and an expansion of that earlier picture. Hou begins with Lamorisse's central conceit -- that of a mysterious red balloon tracking a lonely young French boy around the city -- and broadens the story to weave an extended meditation on urban isolation and dysfunctional, ... Full Synopsis
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J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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. Full Review
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86
Universal Acclaim
out of 100
Based on 23 critic reviews
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