Flight of the Red Balloon 2008  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu, Song Fang, Hippolyte Girardot, Louise Margolin, Anna Sigalevitch
Simon (Simon Iteanu) is the seven-year-old son of puppeteer Suzanne (Juliette Binoche), with more than a few personal problems of her own, who is raising Simon alone. When Suzanne hires Song (Song Fang) to help care for Simon, Song uses him in a video she is shooting about balloons. As Simon and Song stroll on the streets of Paris, it appears that Simon is actually shadowed by a red balloon that floats above–watching over them.
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La Pianiste 2001  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Piano Teacher
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch, Cornelia Kondgen, Thomas Weinhappel, Georg Friedrich, Philipp Heiss
Based on Elfriede Jelinek's novel, the story revolves around a middle-aged piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) who is dominated by her mother (Annie Girardot), has a masochistic sexual relationship with one student (Benoit Magimel), and seems determined her students do not surpass her musical expertise.
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| 1. Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)
2. La Pianiste (2001)
aka: The Piano Teacher
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