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1. Sometimes our self-deprecating Australian nature prevails and we classify as 'modest' a drama... I am the first person guilty of doing that when watching Australian movies. Yet in the case of The Black Balloon I would like to take the word ‘modest’ out of it: my attention never wavered for a moment and I felt that not only was I feeling for each individual character, but that the movie portrayed in very raw but authentic way the suffering, sometimes also the joy and ultimately the remarkable resilience of our society.

   Posted By: dina cavazzini

2. The film is a very honest and sometimes confronting portrait of life with an autistic child in the family.
   
   I recommend seeing this film as everyone can become more understanding of autism. With autism now one in 150 children, it's a real education. I particularly liked the fact that it was told from the brother's point of view, as siblings offen suffer quite a bit from a disabled child in the family.
   
   Myself, my husband and two daughters went to see the film, as we also have an autistic son who is 17. We laughed, nodded a lot because so many things were very familiar to our situation and we sobbed as well.

   Posted By: Cate

3. Release it in the UK

   Posted By: Jonathan

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