"Actor: Pascal Lamorisse"

• The Red Balloon/White Mane | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £17.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Red Balloon and White Mane remain timeless and wonderful children's classics. Unseen for years these award-winning short fi lms have been recently restored so as to present them in the best possible picture quality. The two films were both directed by the award-winning Albert Lamorisse a man who the New York Times has described as ...a remarkable artist: one of the cinema's best poets and a fearless explorer of the scary and exhilarating outbacks of the imagination. The Red Balloon: The award-winning and critically acclaimed fantasy short film directed by Albert Lamorisse follows the relationship between a little boy and a red balloon with a mind of its own that he befriends on the Parisian streets. Widely recognised as one of the most important films in children's cinema this 1956 classic is the only dialogue-free film to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay. White Mane: The 1953 French classic and winner of the 1958 Palme D'Or at Cannes tells the tale of a boy who tames a wild stallion called White Mane. Filmed in the marshes of the Camargue in south-west France White Mane is a beautiful journey into the wilderness that remains a groundbreaking work of children's cinema to this day.

• The Red Balloon | Blu Ray | (18/01/2010) from £11.18   |  Saving you £-2.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.52

  The Red Balloon and White Mane remain timeless and wonderful children's classics. Unseen for years these award-winning short films have been recently restored so as to present them in the best possible picture quality. The two films were both directed by the award-winning Albert Lamorisse a man who the New York Times has described as ...a remarkable artist: one of the cinema's best poets and a fearless explorer of the scary and exhilarating outbacks of the imagination. The Red Balloon/strong> The award-winning and critically acclaimed fantasy short film directed by Albert Lamorisse follows the relationship between a little boy and a red balloon with a mind of its own that he befriends on the Parisian streets. Widely recognised as one of the most important films in children's cinema this 1956 classic is the only dialogue-free film to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay. White Mane The 1953 French classic and winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes tells the tale of a boy who tames a wild stallion called White Mane. Filmed in the marshes of the Camargue in south-west France White Mane is a beautiful journey into the wilderness that remains a groundbreaking work of children's cinema to this day.

• Flight of the Red Balloon/The Red Balloon (2 discs) | DVD | (01/01/2010) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by the internationally acclaimed award-winning Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao Hsien (Café Lumière City of Sadness) this exquisite film inspired by Albert Lamorisse's classic 1953 film The Red Balloon (described by François Truffaut as 'one of the most beautiful colour films ever made') finds its own place within a continuing tradition of great French cinema. A young boy Simon (Simon Iteanu) must deal with the increasing fragility of his mother the loving yet preoccupied puppeteer Suzanne played by Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient Dan in Real Life). Overwhelmed by the demands of her chaotic existence Suzanne hires Song (Song Fan) a Taiwanese film student to help care for Simon. With Song a unique extended family is formed utterly interdependent yet lost in their separate thoughts and dreams; all this is mirrored by a delicate shiny red balloon that hovers above the Paris streets. Special Features: 'The Red Balloon' - Albert Lamorisse's classic short Original theatrical trailer