Flight of the Red Balloon

Also known as: Le voyage du ballon rouge
Country: France
Year: 2007
Running time: 116 mins
Language: French
Certificate: PG
Format: Digital Cinema and 35mm
Sound: Dolby Digital
Picture: Colour
Projected ratio: Cinemascope (2.35:1)

Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Giradot, Simon Iteanu, Fang Song

Synopsis:

Directed by the acclaimed Hou Hsiao Hsien (City of Sadness, Cafe Lumiere) and selected for the Un Certain Regard category at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Flight of the Red Balloon is his first film made outside Asia and is a feature-length homage to the award-winning French short The Red Balloon.

Juliette Binoche stars as single-parent Suzanne, a puppeteer struggling to bring up her son, Simon, in contemporary Paris.

Press quotes:

‘poetic and deeply moving’
Time Out

‘exquisitely-crafted’
Empire