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[FR] Ce film de 36 minutes se déroule dans le quartier de Ménilmontant dans un Paris des années 1950, et suit les aventures d'un jeune garçon (joué par le fils d'Albert Lamorisse, Pascal). Ce petit garçon trouve un gros ballon rouge accroché à un réverbère. Commence alors une histoire d'amitié avec ce ballon qui suit de lui-même le petit garçon dans les rues de Paris. La jalousie d'une bande de garçons de son âge va mener ce film vers une fin à la fois tragique et magique.

[EN] The thirty-four-minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the Ménilmontant neighbourhood of Paris.

The film won numerous awards, including an Oscar for Lamorisse for writing the best original screenplay in 1956 and the Palme d'Or for short films at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. It also became popular with children and educators. It is the only short film to win the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) and to receive a nomination for anything besides Best Live Action Short Film.

Lamorisse used his children as actors in the film. His son, Pascal, plays himself in the main role, and his daughter, Sabine, portrays a little girl.

Since its first release in 1956, the film has generally received overwhelmingly favorable reviews from critics. The film critic for the New York Times, Bosley Crowther, hailed the simple tale and praised director Lamorisse, writing that "Yet with the sensitive cooperation of his own beguiling son and with the gray-blue atmosphere of an old Paris quarter as the background for the shiny balloon, he has got here a tender, humorous drama of the ingenuousness of a child and, indeed, a poignant symbolization of dreams and the cruelty of those who puncture them."

Movie or TV Show: Le Ballon Rouge Year Released or First Aired: 1,956.00 IMDB Link: [Web Link]

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