Le Voyage du ballon rouge

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Movie
Original title Le Voyage du ballon rouge
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2007
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK -
Rod
Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien
script Hou Hsiao-Hsien
François Margolin
production Kristina Larsen
François Margolin
camera Mark Lee Ping Bing
cut Jean-Christophe Hym
Ching-Song Liao
occupation

The French film drama Flight of the Red Balloon ( Flight of the Red Balloon ) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien from the year 2007 is a tribute to director Albert Lamorisse and is loosely based on its oscargekröntem short film The Red Balloon of 1956. The film stars Juliette Binoche and the young Simon Iteanu .

The impressionistic and slightly postmodern film, which also suggests poetic realism , is the prelude to a series that Serge Lemoine of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris started by asking directors for works in which his museum appears in any way .

The dialogue is largely improvised. Sales, IFC Entertainment: "Hou develops his key elements - a little boy, a red balloon and Paris [...]"

action

A mysterious red balloon follows the playing Simon through autumnal Paris . At a metro stop on Place de la Bastille , the two split up because they cannot agree. The balloon just escapes an incoming subway that disappears again in the tunnel. His single mother, Suzanne, is a vocal artist in the puppet theater (a creepy Chinese drama from the Yuan Dynasty is currently being rehearsed there) and a landlady . The blonde is exalted, thoughtful, changeable, chaotic, self-centered, a bit overworked, vulnerable and definitely warm-hearted. Her small apartment upstairs is overflowing with bookshelves, CDs and files. It's almost windowless, this cozy warm colors, with lots of carpet, curtains and trinkets of all kinds. Enduring rings, it rings the doorbell or the phone. The curly haired Simon is learning the piano , likes math, has a Playstation and a Gameboy, and is calm for his age. Occasionally, sirens from emergency vehicles can be heard.

An exchange student from Beijing , Song, is supposed to take care of Simon. The cute, somewhat mysterious song is studying film , and is planning a short film about red balloons. In another guest appearance, the balloon stalks over the roofs of the apartment. Sometimes there is talk of Simon's older sister (or half-sister?) Louise in Brussels. Piano teacher Anna practices with Simon, in Marc and his girlfriend's apartment, which is directly below. Song goes for a stroll with Simon and records with the camcorder. Simon goes into a flashback with his sister in a cafe flippern to Emmenez-moi by Charles Aznavour , and she talks to him about his earliest childhood memories. Marc's girlfriend always cooks in Suzanne's apartment. Marc and Gregory, a friend of her husband Pierre, stop by. Suzanne takes the train to a conversation group with the venerable puppeteer Ah Zhong. Later, she chats with the film student about the man in the green suit, and the technique green screen . Suzanne smiles at Simon (and the audience ). Movers bring a piano.

Difficulties are emerging with a tenant who is already a year behind on rent and was once a friend. She can't find the lease and turns everything upside down. When Song and Simon take a walk in the park, the balloon shows itself, and otherwise hangs around the facades, undecided and calm. Lorenzo, an acquaintance with experience in legal matters, is visiting. Song prepares crepes. Suzanne and Song discuss the weekly budget while the child plays away from the Playstation. With the son they watch an old family video on the laptop, on which the grandfather can be recognized and the sister is only indistinctly. Simon drives public transport and plays with the windows in the mirror. Another performance takes place. Suzanne has a serious phone call in the car with her husband in Montreal who may not be back. A blind piano tuner named William is shown into the apartment and gets to work. Louise is on the phone for a few minutes (as with all phone calls, the other side cannot be heard by the viewer). Then shouts in the stairwell, and the defaulting tenant Marc gains entry, and she argues with him briefly and bitterly. Suzanne is exhilarated, sad and dazed, and has to take a deep breath. On the phone she hears that the daughter wants to stay in Brussels. But Simon is there.

You go out again. Then Simon goes up the stairs to his mezzanine and goes to sleep. The balloon tries to get to him through the frosted glass of the skylight. Later, his school class goes on an excursion to the Musée d'Orsay , where the children interpret Le ballon by Félix Vallotton in terms of perspective, objects and events. But Simon is already back in his fantasy world , and the balloon seems to have given up and to Tchin tchin by Camille he screws his way up to dizzying heights in the stratosphere.

Reviews

Félix Vallotton : Le ballon , 1899
  • “Hou doesn't seem like a visitor from another country or time, but rather from another planet. Hou and his permanent cameraman, Mark Lee Ping Bing, give the city a pearly glow ”- Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
  • “The main achievement [...] is how to capture the feeling of observing real life. Like being in someone else's apartment and watching people from a short distance. Since you are invisible and you wouldn't move a lot, the camera won't either. ”- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
  • “The wonderful thing about Hous films is the longer you think about it, the more relationships and ideas you come up with.” - Beth Accomando, KPBS
  • “Hou seems to have accepted his distance to the material - and uses it. […] Expressly an outsider film […] Hous narrative rhythm enables long phases in which hardly anything happens, ended by cascades of overlapping information. […] In a class of its own ”- J. Hoberman, Village Voice
  • “A work of art of the rank of a poem by Yeats or a picture by Rothko [...] His films are like the ocean. […] Won't interest anyone. ”- John Anderson, The Washington Post
  • “Is 'Le ballon' a happy or a sad picture? [...] The old fox has a bit of ambiguity: his new film is not only his first trip to Europe and a free, distant tribute to the children's film classic 'Le ballon rouge' (1956) by Albert Lamorisse, but also a commissioned work [... ] The beloved art of puppets serves Hou as a contrast in his French fantasy, which is content with small notes on art and life [...] Unusual inaccuracies exist in Hous's away game [...] Just how he misses the narrow apartment [...] gives an idea of A gift to convey the profound unforced through details of everyday life. ”- Christoph Huber, Die Presse
The apartment as it gradually emerges
  • "As one would Jaws do without Hai, for focusing on the dysfunctional Amity Island" ( like doing Jaws without the shark ) - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
  • “One of the most monumentally boring films I've ever had to sit through. […] The film is like a documentary about a very dreary day. [...] Hou meticulously does not give us the slightest information about what is going on. [...] incredibly frustrating. ”- Kurt Loder , MTV.com

With the votes of 1154 viewers, Le Voyage du ballon rouge is on February 14, 2009 in the IMDb with 6.9 out of 10 points and 79 percent of 77 evaluated reviews by Rotten Tomatoes (56 percent of 9 top critics), Metacritic recognizes 86 Percent with 23 critical votes that went into the evaluation.

Others

Fang Song is actually not an actress, but a film student.

The film was shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the series " Un Certain Regard ".

Web links

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  1. ↑ End credits.
  2. ↑ Manohla Dargis : Flight of the Red Balloon (2007). In: The New York Times . April 4, 2008, accessed October 19, 2008 .
  3. ^ Noah Cowan: Le Voyage du ballon rouge. (No longer available online.) In: Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on November 24, 2007 ; accessed on October 19, 2008 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tiff07.ca
  4. ^ Glenn Kenny: Flight of the Red Balloon. In: Premiere.com. March 31, 2008, archived from the original on April 8, 2008 ; accessed on September 12, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Verena Lueken: The deeper wisdom of the hail. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 19, 2007, accessed on October 19, 2008 (No. 115 / page 35).
  6. ^ The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008). In: Rotten Tomatoes . IGN Entertainment, Inc., accessed October 19, 2008 .
  7. ^ Flight of the Red Balloon. (No longer available online.) In: IFC Entertainment. The Independent Film Channel LLC, archived from the original on September 30, 2008 ; accessed on October 19, 2008 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifcfilms.com
  8. ^ A b Christoph Huber: "The journey of the red balloon": Puppeteer in ecstasy. In: The press . December 10, 2007, accessed October 19, 2008 .
  9. ↑ cf. kat: Information about Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (2007). In: Outnow.ch. August 8, 2007, accessed on October 19, 2008 : "The screwed up and hysterical mother"
  10. ↑ cf. Andrew O'Hehir: Beyond the Multiplex. In: Salon.com . May 18, 2007, accessed on October 19, 2008 : "almost entirely a disaster in conventional parenting terms"
  11. ↑ Cynthia Fuchs: The Flight of the Red Balloon (Le Voyage du ballon rouge). In: Pop Matters. May 7, 2008, accessed February 14, 2009 .
  12. ↑ "eight minutes without a cut" , s. Plan sequence . Ara Osterweil: Remapping Hou Hsiao-Hsien. In: The Brooklyn Rail. February 14, 2009, accessed February 14, 2009 .
  13. ^ Stephanie Zacharek: "Flight of the Red Balloon". In: Salon.com . April 4, 2008, accessed on October 19, 2008 (English): "as if Hou were a visitor not from another country but from another time, or perhaps another planet. Hou and his frequent cinematographer, Mark Lee Ping Bing, give the city a pearlescent glow "
  14. ↑ Mick LaSalle: Movie review: 'Red Balloon' takes flight again. In: San Francisco Chronicle. May 16, 2008, accessed on October 19, 2008 (English): “The great virtue […] is the way it captures the feeling of observing real life. The experience of this film is the closest thing to being invisible inside someone's apartment and watching people from a close remove. Because you're invisible, and because you're probably not moving around much, neither does the camera "
  15. ↑ Praveen Rathinavelu: A Bold Red Balloon - Drifting Through Quietly Parisian Lives. In: The Tech. April 11, 2008, accessed on October 19, 2008 (English): "One of the reasons Flight doesn't need to rely on the usual film pyrotechnics is Suzanne [...] In the mold of Penelope Cruz's character in Volver"
  16. ↑ Beth Accomando: Flight of the Red Balloon. In: KPBS Cinema Junkie. May 9, 2008, archived from the original on December 8, 2008 ; accessed on February 14, 2009 (English): "That's what's so wonderful about Hou's films, the more you think about them, the more connections and ideas you will find"
  17. ↑ Ty Burr: Childhood floats away in 'Red Balloon'. In: Boston.com. April 18, 2008, accessed on October 19, 2008 (English): "Art, hints Hou, is how we try to recapture childhood's wonder"
  18. ^ J. Hoberman: Flight of the Red Balloon Soars. In: Village Voice . April 1st 2008, accessed October 19, 2008 (English): "Hou Appears to have accepted his distance from the material - and worked with it. […] Explicitly an outsider's movie […] Hou's narrative rhythms allow for long periods in which nothing much happens, followed by a cascade of overlapping information. [...] a class by itself "
  19. ↑ John Anderson, 'Flight of the Red Balloon': A Soaring Achievement. In: The Washington Post . April 18, 2008, accessed on October 19, 2008 (English): “a work of art on the order of a poem by Yeats or a Rothko painting. [...] his movies are like the ocean [...] should be of no interest to anyone "
  20. ^ Joshua Rothkopf: Flight of the Red Balloon. (No longer available online.) In: Time Out New York. April 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 19, 2008 : "like doing Jaws without the shark, focusing instead on the dysfunction of Amity Island"
  21. ↑ Kurt Loder: 'Flight Of The Red Balloon': Pfffff, By Kurt Loder. In: MTV.com . April 4, 2008, accessed on October 19, 2008 (English): “one of the most monumentally boring films I've ever forced myself to sit through. [...] The movie is like a documentary about a very dull day. [...] Hou is scrupulous to give us as little as possible of the information that might help us make sense of what's going on. [...] intensely frustrating "
  22. ↑ Klawans, see Related links.
  23. ↑ http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/05/18/cannes_3/index.html http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/2007/unCertainRegard.html