The Red Balloon

The Red Balloon

  • Director: Albert Lamorisse
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French
  • Release date: March 11, 1957
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Der rote Ballon
  • "Le Ballon Rouge" is a fantasy short film written and directed by Albert Lamorris, starring Pascal Lamorris. It was released on October 15, 1956.
    The film tells the story of a lonely boy in Paris who forms a friendship with a Le Ballon Rouge   .

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    Details

    • Release date March 11, 1957
    • Filming locations Ménilmontant, Paris 20, Paris, France
    • Production companies Films Montsouris

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $34,570

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $9,004

    Gross worldwide

    $48,980

    Movie reviews

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    • By Trystan 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Red Balloon movie review

      In the balloon seller, each child takes away a wish.
             During the wet rainy season in Paris, on the way home from school, a little boy picked up a bright red balloon floating on a street lamp, and was alone with him, but at the same time he was rejected by others. The bus manager refused. He got into the car with a balloon. The school teacher wouldn't let him into the school with a balloon. His mother secretly released his balloon out of the window. Children of the same age bullied...

    • By Arne 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Look, look, innocent face

      "The Red Balloon" (1956), directed and written by Albert Lamorice, is a typical French film. France is the birthplace of cinema, from Impressionism, avant-garde, to the new wave films, writers' films, poetic realism films of the same period... They all strongly opposed commercial films, traditional films, and devoted themselves to "exploring films". "Intellectual Cinema" or asserts that cinema is pure art. Poetic pictures, strong expressiveness, more profound attention to humanistic temperament...

    • By Jean 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Red balloon, our nature is loneliness

      Why did the little boy meet the red balloon under the street light?
          The entire chromaticity of the movie is gray and dark. Before the colorful balloons appear at the end of the movie, only the red balloons in the entire movie are bright, bright and full of life. The red balloons form a huge contrast with the surrounding environment. We see all this on the premise that the time dimension is set in the daytime What if it was night? The red balloons will be swallowed by the darkness and...

    • By Hillard 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      colorful freedom dream

      The 1956 color silent film, the French film will reveal a poetic romance in terms of composition, color and storyline, so even in the most brutal shots, the audience can still visually accept it calmly.

      "Red Balloon" is only 34 minutes long, with almost no dialogue, which deepens the audience's understanding of "silence is better than sound at this time". The red balloon in the film is more than just a prop. The red color of the balloon is the brightest color in the film, but the...

    • By Lois 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Born from the soul of a red balloon

      The red balloon died, and thousands of balloons broke free and flew to the boy's side to comfort his grief.
      Boy excitedly grabs colorful balloons. Check it out! He flew up, along with the balloon, escaped the entanglement and malice in this world, and floated to the heaven of freedom.
      On the damp and cold streets, the red balloons are particularly conspicuous. It was the boy who rescued him who was hanging at a high place and could not escape. It was raining, and the boy put him under...

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    • By Alivia 2023-09-29 02:29:57

      nice. It's a pity that this disc is in...

    • By Jacklyn 2023-09-24 13:59:50

      Each is a colorful escape. The French are more romantic -...

    • By Demond 2023-09-19 03:32:38

      Very cute and beautiful~ From now on, the red balloon has its symbolic...

    • By Reginald 2023-09-05 09:18:55

      Highly recommend! !...

    • By Vinnie 2023-09-03 14:32:20

      Full of whimsy, the color of the video is very...

    Movie plot

    A lonely little boy picked up a Le Ballon Rouge wandering in the air on his way to school, he took it to school and after school, Le Ballon Rouge like a naughty and sensible elf followed him step by step and accompanies him. The little boy took it to hide from the rain under the umbrellas of the adults. Le Ballon Rouge cleverly avoided the pursuit of teachers and parents, waiting for the little boy to leave school. It even happily held...
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    "Le Ballon Rouge" is perhaps already a more philosophical, and therefore less childish, work, with a poetic quality for both adults and children. It doesn't resort to montage, and Le Ballon Rouge in Lamorice does make various movements in front of the camera, which is certainly a stunt, but it's not part of the stunt of the film itself. In this film, as in magic, the illusion comes from reality. Illusions are real, not created by the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Pascal - le petit garçon: Could you hold my balloon while I'm in school?