The Flight of the Red Balloon - Trailer

A highlight at the 2007 Cannes, Toronto and New York film festivals, Flight of the Red Balloon is the latest masterpiece from HOu Hsiao Hsien (Cafe Lumiere, Three Times). Inspired by Albert Lamorisse's 195 Academy Award winning classic, The Red Balloon, Hou expands on its key elements - a young boy, a red balloon and Paris - to weave an achingly beautiful tale on the mysteries of familial bonds and the lingering effects the past has on us all.

A precocious young boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of mother, the loving yet preoccupied Suzanne (Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche of The English Patient, Cache). Completely immersed in her own tribulations, Suzanne hires Song (Fang Song), a Taiwanese film student, to help care for Simon. Together with Song, a unique extended family is formed, utterly interdependent yet lost in separate thoughts and dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.

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[brittany0]

I want to see this movie so bad, I love movies about life but not reality TV sort of movies. It seems so lovely from the trailer. Thanks for posting!!

[jyoung78]

It's not so much a re-make as a re-interpretation.

[thecronicle95]

I loved albert lamorisse's movie. i am not a very fan of this version.

[22poeg]

@Connie0755

Well, (dud) think about it -- what you see is the problem with the movie IS the point the movie is making. Today, the glorious part of Paris shown in the 1956 film doesn't exist. It's been replaced by American inspired buildings - the Americanization of Old Europe is now almost complete. J. Tatti makes the same point in his 1956 classic film, 'Mon Oncle.'

[condiersea]

@brittany0 i saw the original in my french class but this one is playing on the sundance channel tomorrow at around 8pm (in Chicago tome zone)

[Codemaster92163]

And, of course "Suddenly, dark clouds hover over Adlehyde.

The laughter and murmur cease.

As the unsuspecting people look up to the skies,

they watch the silent nightmare spread over their heads."

If anyone even knows what I'm referencing, I love you :3

[crxracer805]

This movie by all sense has terrible. I can't believe I sit and watched the whole thing. It was so boring and nothing like the original. What a waste of two hours!!

[along957]

Hou Hsiao-Hsien rules!

[Connie0755]

@lttlman2013

absolutely, couldn't agree more... the original film was shot in 1956, and it gives you the real sense of Paris at the time, which isn't at all the case with this "foreign" film where I don't recognize the Paris I know and live in.

[Connie0755]

the original film, shot in 1956, is so much stronger without dialogues...

this one isn't at all "parisian"...

[KeepOnTrollin001]

OMG Watching this movie was the best 2 hours of my life ;D I even watched it for free on

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