When you put the forces of Juliette Binoche, Paris, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien, master of observational cinema, you get a classic homage to a classic film "The Red Balloon" from 1956. The film is about real people in Paris rather than a cliche of a postcard that you get in most films.Hsiao-Hsien infuses Paris with his Chinese flavors and lets you in the lives of Parisians who have other problems than the city they live in. Juliette Binoche creates another real character that you care about and her integrity is flawless. Anybody not familiar with the films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien maybe warned since his films are not about action but about life the way a balloon might pass a street and a city. YRCinema's coverage of AFI Fest 2007.
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