This film is a collaboration between Hou Hsiao-hsien and French director Albert. Albert Lamorisse's short film, shot in 1956, is a tribute to "Le Ball[Expand All]
This film is a collaboration between Hou Hsiao-hsien and French director Albert. The short film by Albert Lamorisse, shot in 1956, is a tribute to "Le Ballon Rouge", which holds an important position in the history of cinema. It is also his second tribute foreign language film after "Coffee Time". Suzanne (Juliet? Juliette Binoche is extremely busy every day for the voice performances of the characters in the puppet show "The Man Who Cooks the Sea Asking for His Wife", which is adapted from Chinese Yuan Qu, and other trivial matters. Moreover, her husband Pierre is far away in Montreal, Canada, writing novels, and their son Simon (Simon Iteanu) has become a burden. Helplessly, she hired Song (Song Fang), a Chinese girl studying film in Paris, to look after Simon. When with Simon, Song never took her hands off the camera and mentioned "Red Balloon" to Simon, who was curious about what she was shooting. Suzanne's tenant Marc (Hippolyte GirardotLouise), relying on being Pierre's friend, often does things that make her angry. Moreover, he has not paid the rent for several months under the pretext of poverty. Suzanne intended to bring her daughter Louise Margolin, who was in Brussels, back to Paris for her studies and decided to drive Marc away, but Pierre did not understand. Song, who saw everything with her own eyes, did not get involved in such trivial matters. She maintained a calm friendship with Suzanne and most of the time was only thinking about her film: The process of Simon discovering a big red balloon that no one paid attention to and pulling it through the streets and alleys of Paris was recorded by her camera and became a film[Collapse]
