  Flight Of The Red Balloon (2007) (Dvd)Flight Of The Red Balloon (2007) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 796019814751
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu, Song Fang, Louise Margolin
Directors: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: French
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Ifc
Release date: October 21, 2008
Run time: 115 minutes
Product Description
Inspired by Albert Lamorisse's classic 1956 Academy Award®-Winning short*, Flight of the Red Balloon is the latest masterwork from director Hou Hsiao Hsien (Three Times, Millennium Mambo). Expanding on the key elements of Lamorisse's short - a young boy, a red balloon and Paris - Hou weaves the tale of a boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu) dealing with the increased fragility of his loving yet preoccupied mother, Suzanne (Academy Award® - Winner Juliette Binoche** of The English Patient, Caché). When a Taiwanese film student, Song (Fang Song), is hired to help care for Simon, a unique extended family is formed - utterly dependent on each other yet lost in separate dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.
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