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Film Flight of the Red Balloon

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Chinese director Hsiao-hsien Hou's glorious response to the 1956 classic The Red Balloon commences with a long, nearly silent scene of a boy with his balloon in the Paris metro. Though the film eventually moves to more narrative fare — the child's mother (Juliette Binoche) is a frazzled artist saddled with domestic problems — it never loses sight of that initial lyricism. Like the titular balloon snaking through every shot, Flight of the Red Balloon floats above the snarl of human drama without condescending or detaching from it. The result is a tender assay of the human condition, both as natural and unnatural as a city street on a spring day.

– Lisa Rosman

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