In The Red Balloon, Pascal, the five-year-old son of Lamorisse, plays a young Parisian boy who, on his way to school encounters. If you think about it, considering that Lamorisse dedicated most of his career to the making of documentaries, the success of The Red Balloon was a big accomplishment. Furthermore, writer and director Albert Lamorisse infused his imaginative film with a true sense of wonder and magic.
In this regard, it is really surprising how, in spite of its short running time of less than 35 minutes, The Red Balloon accomplishes the satisfactory telling of an emotional story of friendship, savagery, and salvation. And then again, perhaps such simplicity is what grants this unforgettable French film its awesome cinematic power. While the boy tries to rescue it, the balloon grows weary-looking, settles to the ground, and is stomped on, signaling a peculiar call to arms.Compared to the structural excesses of modern Hollywood films, The Red Balloon ( Le Ballon Rouge) feels truly overwhelming because of its visual and narrative minimalism. A gang of older boys chases the boy down, captures the balloon, and takes it to an abandoned place where they torment it with rocks and slingshots. It follows him to school where, dodging playfully out of reach, it escapes the groping hands of the other children and gets the boy in trouble. Here's the story: A young boy (Pascal Lamorisse) untangles a bright red balloon from a lamppost and tries to give it away, but the balloon returns to him. The balloon ducks into alleys, rises suddenly to escape grabbing hands, and pauses in front of a mirror to admire itself. The parable unfolds in carefully plotted images and beguiling actions that give the balloon more personality than some A-list actors. THE RED BALLOON is an allegorical story of a boy and his red balloon has only a few background words of dialogue.
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