Flight of the Red Balloon

Another Balloon Over Paris, With Lives Adrift Below

If the luscious red orb that sails through “Flight of the Red Balloon” like an airborne cherry looks as if it flew in from another movie, in some ways it did. The film, the latest wonderment from the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien, takes as one of its inspirations Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 classic, “The Red Balloon,” about a young boy and the talismanic sphere that follows him through the gray streets of Paris like a dog, a lover, a ghost — as much a reminder of the precariousness of life as an emblem of innocence. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (6554 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 4 aprile 2008