Art - The Red Balloon (1956)

Who knew 34 minutes of traveling around Paris with a helium-filled balloon could be so engrossing? Charming and heartwarming.

Curated by Whitney Weiss

Total Runtime: 0:34:45

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"The Red Balloon, which is only thirty-four minutes long, is an utterly charming little story of a small Parisian lad and a balloon—a balloon he finds one day, lurking around a lamp-post, while he is on his way to school, and which takes a fancy to him and follows him thereafter like a loving stray dog.

It is a thoroughly simple story of something incredible that could not occur except in the bright imagination of an artist such as Albert Lamorisse, the young Frenchman who made the memorable short "White Mane" and who wrote, produced and directed this. Yet with the sensitive cooperation of his own beguiling son and with the gray-blue atmosphere of an old Paris quarter as the background for the shiny balloon, he has got here a tender, humorous drama of the ingenuousness of a child and, indeed, a poignant symbolization of dreams and the cruelty of those who puncture them.

This little film, which won a special award at the Cannes Festival, is without dialogue. Its soundtrack has merely music, random voices and street sounds."

-Bosley Crowther, The New York Times, 1957

Art - The Red Balloon (1956)

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