On Movies & Media 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
Overstreet's Books 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
