The Red Balloon Trip

This film (drama)Also known asLe voyage du ballon rouge，is aFrance, Taiwan, ChinaProducerwomen sex，At2007Released in year 。The dialogue language isFrench, Mandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating7.4(For reference only)。

This film is a tribute by Hou Hsiao-Hsien to the French director Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short film, "The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge)," which holds an important place in film history. It is also his second tribute foreign language film following "Cafe Lumiere." Suzanne (Juliette Binoche) is overwhelmed with daily tasks, including voicing a character in a puppet show adaptation of Chinese Yuan drama "The Sea Man Seeks a Wife," while her husband Pierre is far away in Montreal writing a novel. Their son Simon (Simon Iteanu) has become a "burden," so she hires a Chinese girl, Song (Song Fang), studying film in Paris to take care of Simon. While with Simon, Song keeps her camera close at hand and mentions "The Red Balloon" when Simon expresses curiosity about what she is filming. Suzanne's tenant Marc (Hippolyte Girardot) often makes her angry with his actions, taking advantage of being Pierre's friend, and has not paid rent for several months, citing financial hardship. Suzanne intends to bring her daughter Louise (Louise Margolin) studying in Brussels back to Paris and decides to get rid of Marc, but Pierre does not understand. Observing everything, Song does not engage in such trivial matters and maintains a distant friendship with Suzanne, mostly thinking about her film: Simon discovers a neglected red balloon and pulls it through the streets of Paris, a process she documents on camera, becoming a film within a film. Afterward, the red balloon seems to have a life of its own, floating around wherever Simon appears.