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Thu May 22 - Thu May 29

Flight of the Red Balloon

Directed by Hou Hsiao Hsien


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Location
Date and Time
Landmark's Bridge
3010 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94118 map
cross street: Blake
district: Richmond (Inner)

Thu May 22 ((2:00 4:30) 7:00 9:30 )
Fri May 23 ((2:00 4:30) 7:00 9:30 )
Sat May 24 ((2:00) 4:30 7:00 9:30)
Sun May 25 ((2:00) 4:30 7:00 9:30)
Mon May 26 ((2:00) 4:30 7:00 9:30)

Description
A mysterious red balloon affectionately follows seven-year-old Simon (Simon Iteanu) around Paris in this imaginative tale. His mother Suzanne (Juliet Binoche) is a puppeteer who uses her vocal talents to bring life to the shows she writes. Completely absorbed in her new show, Suzanne becomes overwhelmed by the complications of modern daily life, so she decides to hire Song (Song Fang), a Taiwanese film student, to help her care for Simon. Inspired by the 1956 classic, The Red Balloon. Feeling at times almost improvisatory, this first European-made film by writer/director Hou Hsiao Hsien (Flowers of Shanghai, Millennium Mambo) is a poetic delight. Co-starring Hippolyte Girardot and Louis Margolin. (Fully subtitled)