Film Reviews Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) [An abridged version of this review was published at Christianity Today.] • How is childhood like a red balloon? Watching Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s new film Flight of the Red Balloon, there are many possible answers to that question. We watch seven-year-old Simon meander along Paris sidewalks, and his progress is as
The Auralia Thread Good Medicine by Way of Paris and Taiwan: Thank You, Hou Hsiao-Hsien! I may have the flu, I may have a voice like a gravel-crusher and a fever of 101, but I'm still here, propped up in bed editing Cyndere's Midnight. It may have had something to do with my diet of aspirin, soup, hot tea, cough medicine,
