Solitary boys who find unlikely companions are the focus of The Red Balloon (1956) and White Mane (1953), two hauntingly beautiful fables from French filmmaker and photographer Albert Lamorisse ...
Flight of the Red Balloon is a French movie by a Chinese filmmaker. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Nena’s “99 Red Balloons.” Rather, it’s a remake of the more simply titled Red Balloon, a 1956 ...
Most family films nowadays operate on two distinct levels, one for children and another for jaded adults. But Albert Lamorisse’s classic French short The Red Balloon (1956), in which a little boy’s ...
Youthful innocence has been explored in motion pictures almost from the start. From Charlie Chaplin to Satyajit Ray to Wes Anderson, various filmmakers have successfully captured this elusive ...
In Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “The Flight of the Red Balloon,” the enigmatic title character wafts around Paris, boards a Metro and catches the attention of a little boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu). Though the ...
Like a lot of kids in the ’60s and ’70s, I first saw Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 French short, “The Red Balloon,” in elementary school — back when 16-millimeter prints of that magical, mysterious film ...
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