Audrey with Balloons             Funny Face (1957)

Fantasy: Balloons Lifting Audrey Up

Audrey Hepburn with Balloons Pinterest sends me two emails daily on photos I may like— football uniforms, sacred geometry, cute animals, and girl with balloons. I click on the latter and it's Audrey Hepburn in the film Funny Face taken by Richard Avedon. She's holding eight balloons but there may be more— a gust of wind may send her aloft like in The Red Balloon. That 35-minutes French film was made in 1956, a year before Funny Face and got to see it again. After Pascal finds the Red Balloon, it follows him everywhere as though it has a mind of its own, going to school and even to church. Older boys envious of the balloon, tried to burst it with slingshots and stomped it dead at last, but so many balloons float to Pascal carrying him aloft over Paris where Funny Face was made— I see balloons lifting Audrey up, up, up, soaring into the sky. — Peter Y. Chou     Mountain View, 6-14-2021

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