Flight of the Red Balloon Comments

Darrion 2022-03-19 09:01:10

Mr. Hou, let's not do propositional composition in the future, okay? But, you can make omelettes....

Alexandrine 2022-03-18 09:01:09

Hou Hsiao-hsien's films are always eloquent, beginning and ending in...

Eddie 2022-03-18 09:01:09

Director Hou's second foreign-language film honoring French director Albert Lamorice. Everyone has their own complex problems to solve. The red balloon is the hope in life, the bright light that has never been expected, and it lingers and lingers in every pain that can breathe. Children say it is half happy and half sad. No matter how trivial and complex life is, I have hope to look up at the sky and find a red...

Allie 2022-03-17 09:01:09

We can think of it as the French version of Winter's Holiday. The creative anxiety of the characters is diluted into the everyday discourse of the fixed camera. The red balloon transcends or dominates the French urban space, as long as the camera moves slightly upwards. Its existence is not some kind of escape, on the contrary, it unites two kinds of France: France as an everyday space and time and France as a cultural symbol, occupied by the specter of the stage. And Hou Hsiao-hsien captured...

Juston 2022-03-17 09:01:09

A film so beautiful that I forget the...

Teagan 2022-03-16 09:01:08

Hou Hsiao-hsien's first non-Asian film was shot at the invitation of the Musée d'Orsay, France, to commemorate the classic short film [Red Balloon] by Albert Lamoris. However, I personally think that the occasional implantation of red balloons is still a bit abrupt. The main charm of the film is still Hou Dao's perception of the details of life and his grasp of daily emotions. A single mother, a part-time nanny who traveled from Beijing to Paris to study film, a lonely little boy, and a crowded...

Deontae 2022-03-16 09:01:08

Hou's personal video notes are piled up in pieces, like a personal diary, zoomed to one point every second, not talking about the plot, but only lingering on...

Adelbert 2022-03-15 09:01:11

The image of trains is often seen in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films. The trains come and go, and it seems that the eternal city has become an uncertain station. The stories that take place in the time gap of the short stop are even more parting. Hou Hsiao-hsien has always had the melancholy of passing away and the futility of retaining life, but day by day, the trivial skin eventually turns into an intriguing trace of life / A red balloon is like a gorgeous soap bubble in such a life, first seeing it...

Tavares 2022-03-15 09:01:11

The essence is a journey of discovery and capture. The overlapping of multiple spaces allows us to have more room for observation and feel the looming emotional ups and downs. People in Paris are deeply immersed in the city street shadows, and in the process of evaporating the seawater, the beauty of life is focused by the camera or our eyes. Hou Hsiao-hsien presents us with a floating way of viewing, ambiguous and real. (Probably thanks to the photographer for the most...

George 2022-03-14 14:12:30

It's not so much a movie as a soundtrack album, which requires emotional infiltration to resonate with the characters' everyday life. There are red balls in every frame, so it's a tribute,...