视频简介
Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。苏珊（朱丽叶·比洛什饰）的丈夫滞留在加拿大蒙特娄大学客座写小说，独留她与七岁的儿子西蒙在巴黎，她是个出色的戏剧教授同时也是木偶剧编剧，正忙着筹备一出改编自中国元曲的剧码《求妻煮海人》，并且担任剧中角色的声音演出。每天忙着工作与大小杂事，对于自己更是自顾不暇的苏珊，只好请在巴黎大学念电影的华裔学生宋芳担任保姆。某天，西蒙发现了一个无人理会的落单红气球，西蒙拉着她穿过巴黎市区的大街小巷，红气球也随着他们的脚步漂浮游荡，时而出现时而消失的红气球仿佛有了生命。宋芳拿出摄影机，以西蒙与红气球为主角，信手拍了一部电影中的电影。转眼露易丝将高中毕业，苏珊希望她回巴黎申请大学，把父母遗留的现居老公寓重新整修让露薏丝搬进来住，但却怎么也无法叫楼下丈夫久未缴房租的友人搬走。就在这些寻常琐事和喜怒哀乐间，红气球偶而驻足，拉长的影子投映在市街各个角落。有时来到苏珊家的窗前，有时飘过塞纳河、圣母院、奥塞美术馆、蒙马特。最终，缓缓飞向天际。。
