Flight Of The Red Balloon

In his first film set in the West, Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien presents a masterful love letter to Paris and a cinema landmark -- Albert Lamorisse's 1956 children's classic The Red Balloon. Juliette Binoche -- earthy, appealing and with blonde tresses -- stars as Suzanne, a puppeteer and mother of a lonely seven-year-old. While vibrantly passionate, Suzanne's personal life is as chaotic as her Parisian apartment, leading her to hire a Taiwanese film student as her son's nanny. "In a class by itself... a movie of genius" -- Village Voice.