Comments on: REVIEW: Balloon (2018) https://fictionmachine.com/2019/10/21/review-balloon-2018/ Deconstructing the machinery of cinema. Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: REVIEW: Night Crossing (1982) https://fictionmachine.com/2019/10/21/review-balloon-2018/comment-page-1/#comment-6390 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 05:59:18 +0000 http://fictionmachine.com/?p=4689#comment-6390 […] there has been a fresh adaptation of these events, via the German film Balloon (reviewed here). That, understandably, feels the more authentic picture thanks to language and a fully mature […]

]]> By: Adelaide Dupont https://fictionmachine.com/2019/10/21/review-balloon-2018/comment-page-1/#comment-4946 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 09:09:07 +0000 http://fictionmachine.com/?p=4689#comment-4946 Hello Grant

I was only able to see 20 minutes of BALLOON because the projector kept flashing blue throughout half the screen.

It was at a small arthouse cinema of the Palace Group.

Even then I experienced the power of the Strezyks – Peter and his scepticism of the regime and the older kids and the little boy. Doris too.

And how Erik used the regime.

And the statistics and facts – really the odds were against them…

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