Review of Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) by Andriy D — 18 Mar 2010
The most recent film from Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao Hsien that takes place... in Paris!? A saga about childhood in a big city focuses - unlike Hou's earlier films - on lives of rich, rather than poor, people.
I guess that this well made, slow-developing picture deserves praise for its intricate structure that it shares with Hou's earlier films. Nevertheless, I think it was a bad decision for Hou to make a French film set in Paris with Juliette Binoche (duh!) as a main character.
It somehow deprives his work of realism that is so prominent in his earlier works such as 'All the Youthful Days'. Let us put in bluntly: 'The Flight of the Red Balloon' is a pretentious film.
This review of Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) was written by Andriy D on 18 Mar 2010.
Flight of the Red Balloon has generally received positive reviews.
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