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Fragments of French Family Memories
Alayna 2022-04-22 07:01:54
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The tones are colder, and the warm yellow light illuminates a small house. The female perspective tells the short memory of a small home. As a tribute to the classic film "le ballon rouge (red balloon)", this film does not give many pictures of red balloons, but only occasionally appears in the story, with a bit of symbolic meaning. The narration of a French family's memories, the addition of Chinese elements is also integrated into the film. Ordinary life is full of attitudes and philosophies about life. This is the story with a bit of warmth, but random fragments of life naturally become a whole to convey to us attitudes about life. The piano soundtrack, urban scenery, and Chinese elements added to the film make the film more full of imagination and emotion. Juliette Binoche's style is still the same. Although she is no longer the young girl she once was, she is more prominent under the background of the little actor Simon. This is a memoir of a slice of life, so understanding may lead to more connotations from this film
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