Stowaway in the Sky
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1h 23m
Directed by Albert Lamorisse • 1960 • France
Starring André Gille, Pascal Lamorisse, Maurice Baquet
Following the international triumph of THE RED BALLOON, Albert Lamorisse turned to feature filmmaking with another delightful tale of a boy and a balloon. Making spectacular use of Hélivision—an innovative aerial photography technique he developed—Lamorisse takes us on the breathtaking odyssey of a young boy (played by his son, Pascal) who sneaks aboard his inventor grandfather’s experimental new hot-air balloon for a voyage across France. Soaring above cathedrals and castles, the Mediterranean and the Alps, STOWAWAY IN THE SKY celebrates the natural world and ponders, with surprising existential insight, the place of human beings within it.
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