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Branson 2022-02-07 14:55:35
6/10. Hou Hsiao-hsien presents the relationship between characters through spatial juxtaposition. Song Fang has been paying attention to Mark during the phone call to borrow the kitchen. After that, Susannah went home and complained about the mess in the kitchen. Song Fang was still a silent observer (back to the camera/blurred), using the stairs The framing (tutor going downstairs/worker moving the piano upstairs) also deepens the sense of spatial perspective. The red balloon is like an eye...
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Beth 2022-02-07 14:55:35
This tribute work does not have the sadness of the original "Red Balloon". Hou Hsiao-hsien can grasp any life-like things, and it is plain and real. Binoche is really a monster, what he plays is what he...
Flight of the Red Balloon Comments
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Matt 2022-04-21 09:03:34
those shadows of life.
Hou Hsiao-hsien's film. Low-key, flat, slow. .
I like Hou Hsiao-hsien's sensitivity to the flow of light and shadow in life. These light and shadow changes have become the "aura" in this film.
Hou Hsiao-hsien's films still look so "tired", every long shot can become a "sad" photo. It's these photos... -
Ophelia 2022-04-20 09:02:38
Chin Chin, the forgotten red balloon
April 23, 2008. I watched Hou Hsiao-hsien's new film "le Ballon Rouge" (Red Ballon 2006) at the Lakewood Music Box on the north side of Chicago's Downtown, where Juliette Binoche was brilliant. The red balloon floats and falls, on the branches, outside the window, on the platform of the train, in...
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Language: French,Mandarin Release date: January 30, 2008