Reviewed by Nitsa Pomerleau. Viewed on DVD. The film that won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1957 contained ten lines of dialogue at most. The Red Balloon is writer-director Albert Lamorisse’s uncompromised classic, which in a resonant absence of words offers the viewer tender return to a child’s perspective and to a … Continue reading The Red Balloon (Lamorisse, 1956): France