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      • The red balloon comes to symbolize adolescence and, when it bounces up against a painted image of itself on a building’s wall, of adolescents’ rapport with their ancestors. But Hou doesn’t stress these points, and the orb’s flights around Paris (set to bittersweet piano tinkling) epitomize the film’s atmospheric lightness.
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  2. Flight of the Red Balloon ( French: Le voyage du ballon rouge) is a 2007 French-Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is the first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, and tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student.

  3. Apr 4, 2008 · The luscious red orb in “Flight of the Red Balloon” is as much a reminder of the precariousness of life as an emblem of innocence.

    • Hsiao-Hsien Hou
  4. Sep 14, 2016 · In Flight, Hou uses Binoche as a formal element within his mise-en-scène – it is Suzanne’s nervous energy that brings his apparently leisurely and content-less long-takes into focus, and provides a bridge between scenes. Suzanne forces narrative into Hou’s undramatic scene-setting.

    • Darragh O’Donoghue
  5. Mar 30, 2008 · Flight of the Red Balloon” is the first of a series financed by the Musée d’Orsay, and at least one scene had to be shot at the museum. Mr. Hou approached this task somewhat offhandedly. “I...

  6. Jan 30, 2008 · Flight of the Red Balloon: Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou. With Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu, Fang Song. A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.

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    • Drama, Family
    • Hsiao-Hsien Hou
    • 2008-01-30
  7. Sep 27, 2007 · As with its source material, Flight of the Red Balloon depicts Simon following a mysterious red balloon about the City of Lights. Its focus, however, is more squarely on the tightly knit social circle that surrounds the young boy.

  8. A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon. In Paris, Chinese cinema student Song Fang is hired to work as the nanny of Simon by his divorced mother Suzanne, who works voicing marionettes in a theater.

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