Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Flight of the Red Balloon
6.5A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.
- Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
- Main Cast: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot
- Cinematography: Ping Bin Lee
- Screenplay: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, François Margolin
Original title in France is Le voyage du ballon rouge.
Cinema Premiere: March 14, 2008
Reviews by critics from other countries
Foreign Reviews
2 foreign reviews of Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
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Positive, no rating
Translated from swedish: The story is mostly an excuse for the director to depict Paris
Swedish: sydsvenskan.se »
World-Wide Box Office Revenue
Box Office
Flight of the Red Balloon has earned a total of 1 335 987 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
1. Helsingborgs Dagblad
Translated from swedish: The Chinese director Hsiao-Hsien Hou is a talented and award-winning filmmaker who will never become a box office hit in the world’s cinemas. But if you can imagine something completely different from the hysterically edited, scripted, and acted Hollywood films—something very beautiful, quietly realistic, poetic, and open to interpretation and reflection—I recommend his first film made in Europe.
- Diana Holmberg
Swedish: Helsingborgs Dagblad »