The Red Balloon
(Le Ballon Rouge)
34 minutes,
France (1956), U
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(4.8 / 33 votes)
(4.8 / 33 votes)
Oscar-winning French short from 1956 about a seven-year-old boy pursued through the streets of Paris by a balloon with a life of its own
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The Red Balloon: Few children's films and even fewer shorts have passed into the canon of classics, but Albert Lamorisse's delicate little fantasy about a boy and his balloon is a genuinely moving mini-masterpiece.
Presented almost without dialogue, it's a simple fable about the lively relationship between seven-year old Pascal (Lamorisse) and a gleaming helium balloon...
Read the The Red Balloon full reviewPresented almost without dialogue, it's a simple fable about the lively relationship between seven-year old Pascal (Lamorisse) and a gleaming helium balloon...
