‘The Black Balloon’: Wrenching portrait of life with autism
December 5th, 2008
An excerpt of a film review by Stephen Holden in the New York Times:
Would you be able to cope? That is the unspoken challenge laid down by “The Black Balloon,” a harrowing, unsentimental portrait of a middle-class Australian family whose oldest son has severe autism compounded by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Would you find in yourself the seemingly infinite reserves of love and patience possessed by the Mollisons, the movie’s itinerant, highly stressed army family who have just moved to the suburbs of Sydney? Maybe not.
See also: ‘The Black Balloon’ gets family right — Los Angeles Times
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