Flight of the Red Balloon
In Theatres: April 4th, 2008
Foreign
Rating: Not yet rated
Hou Hsiao Hsien (dir.)
Juliette Binoche
Simon Iteanu
Fang Song
Hippolyte Girardot
Louise Margolin
A precious young boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of his mother, the loving yet preoccupied Suzanne (Academy Award Winner Juliette Binoche of THE ENGLISH PATIENT, CACHÉ). Completely immersed in her own tribulations, Suzanne hires Song (Song Fan), 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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