Flight of the Red Balloon

Flight of the Red Balloon French Le voyage du ballon rouge is a 2007 FrenchTaiwanese film directed by Hou HsiaoHsien. It is the first part in a new series of films produced by Muse dOrsay, and tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is Hou HsiaoHsiens first nonAsian film. It references the classic 1956 French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.

Suzanne, a puppeteer, lives with her young son Simon in an apartment in Paris. While her daughter Louise is away in Brussels and she is worried over a financial battle with her tenant, Marc, Suzanne hires a Chinese filmmaker named Song as Simons new nanny.Rotten Tomatoes reported that 80 of 86 sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it got a rating average of 6.9 out of 10. ........

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