Marcy’s got this one covered: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon is a charming homage to the 1956 French classic by Albert Lamorisse and an intimate portrait of a unique Paris family. A blond Juliette Binoche stars as Suzanne, an accomplished puppeteer who a hires a Taiwanese nanny (Song Fang) for her gentle seven-year-old [...]
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Flight of the Red Balloon
Posted by Jürgen on October 1, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/01/flight-of-the-red-balloon/
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