I was bitterly disappointed in this movie which had gotten a glowing review from one source I read but I should have paid more attention to the negative reviews on this board. The device of the freely floating and very large red balloon is at first charming, then aggravating and finally maddening! Most of the camera shots were very close in close and claustrophobic situations. Suzannes apartment, the streets of her neighborhood, the visits to her puppet theatre. Suzanne (Juliette Binoche) is one of those frazzled people who is yet canny and shrewd and not so really out of control as you would think from the condition of her apartment and her activities. She is a loving but remote mother to her 6 or 7 yr old son, Simon. The nanny, Song is properly attentive to her charge but obviously more interested in her film career. There is Simon's absent older "sister" (Is it she we see in the scenes with Simon and a Suzanne with a different hairdo?) She lives in Brussels with her grandfather. We don't know why. Marc and his girlfriend are tenants of Suzannes but don't pay rent and use her kitchen. Simon takes piano lessons in a piano in Marc's apt. Suzanne has the piano moved upstairs and we hear a long description of injuries one can receive from moving such things. We go on a train ride. There were three things I found of interest in this movie. 1) you use green rather than blue for erasing on a computer. 2) the teacher with the children in the museum was interesting. Can't remember the third so I guess it wasn't so interesting after all. I gave it 2 stars because all of the actors were good, but it may have been hard to tell. This was so bad I was praying for it to end and I am an atheist.
Review of Flight of the Red Balloon
