Alternate Title: Le Voyage du ballon rouge
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Hippolyte Girardot, Song Fang, more cast
Directed By: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Released By: IFC
Run Time: 113 min.
Genre: Drama, Coming Soon
Synopsis : A precious young boy, Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of his mother, the loving yet preoccupied Suzanne (Academy Award Winner Juliette Binoche of ‘The English Patient,’ ‘Cache’).
Completely immersed in her own tribulations, Suzanne hires Song (Song Fan), a Taiwanese film student, to help care for Simon. Together with Song, a unique extended family is formed, utterly interdependent yet lost in separate thoughts and dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.
Filed under: drama, new release
