Flight of the Red Balloon is the 2007 indie film from director Hou Hsiao Hsien. In the film, a small boy named Simon (Simon Iteanu) is struggling to come to grips with his mother's (Juliette Binoche) mortality as she is slowly consumed by illness and frailty. Her renter is not paying his rent and she is having trouble making a living. Unsure of what to do for her son, Suzanne, the mother, hires Song (Song Fang), a Taiwanese foreign exchange student who is studying film, to help care for him. The frailty and finitude of these family relations is captured metaphorically in the journey of a red balloon which passes quietly through the scenery of the movie. Its journey is directionless, and at any moment it is subject to the whims of the MORE [EDIT]
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