Taiwan classic movie screening, the last one to watch. It's a tribute film, but I haven't seen "Red Balloon", so it's an independent film for me.
For this, as long as you are patient enough, sadness and beauty will spread from the film. It's closer to a feminist story, and the director tells us its core through Simon's review of the painting: half sadness, half joy. So we see La Binoche who is hysterical because of her ex-husband's friend's refusal to pay rent, La Binoche who is immersed in the art of puppet show, and she who is thinking and mad, but she is infinitely gentle to Simon. In an almost "recording" way, the director places the audience in a cramped scene, a home full of clutter, a crowded street, and blocked sight lines, which jointly create an observer's perspective. Interestingly, Many of the shots are images on glass, or through car windows and shop windows. We watch everything from God’s perspective, but at the same time we can’t really see everything clearly. Another thing I particularly liked was the lighting of the film, as if it was a golden shroud, reflecting La Binoche and Simon's blonde hair, in those beautiful moments. Simon's mirror image in the car window, against the diffuse golden light, is very beautiful.
Compared with the hard-to-get reprint version of "Flowers on the Sea", I prefer this one.
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