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Hsiao-Hsien Hou

The Flight of the Red Balloon

 6.5

A 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: October 7, 2007



2 foreign reviews of The Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

  • 1. Helsingborgs Dagblad
    8 / 10

    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 »

  • 2. Sydsvenskan
    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

The Flight of the Red Balloon has earned a total of 1 335 987 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).