The Balloonist (2025) Movie Script
1
Bouillon! Where are you?
Bouillon!
Come back here. Come on!
Go that way. Cut him off!
- Bouillon!
- Oh. No, no. No.
- Come back.
- Bouillon!
GODFRIED OF BOUILLON
BOUILLON IS THE PRETTIESOF THE SHOW RAAYMAKERS
TO ENTER DUTCH CHAMPIONSHIP
WITH BOUILLON
Oh, dear, get him down!
- He'll hurt himself.
- I know! I know! I need a ladder.
Come here.
Lean it against the tree right here.
- Be careful.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay. I got you.
Yeah, yeah.
Come here, Bouillon.
Oh! Oh!
Come on. Come here. There.
Gaby, what... what are you doing?
Oh.
Gaby...
No, stop it. Oh!
Oh! Oh!
Gaby. Sweetheart,
you have to stay, please.
Do it for me.
Here you go. Come here.
Mientje!
THE BALLOONISPRESENT DAY
Kuif?
Kuif, did you let Bouillon
out of his coop?
No.
How many more times
do you need to be told?
- You know he'll just run away.
- He'll fly away.
Kuif, chickens don't fly.
Bouillon has to stay in his coop.
- Yeah? Are we clear?
- No!
Okay, come here. Come here!
Goddamn it, Kuif!
Come here.
Grandma is the boss!
Grandma is the boss!
Call me when you're done, okay?
Kuif, no chocolates for breakfast.
Yeah, sure. Just wreck the entire kitchen.
Kuif?
Kuif!
I didn't do anything!
Oh, no!
Come on! Come on!
No!
Oh, damn! Come on!
Oh, holy shit!
Oh, damn! Oh, no!
Oh, no! Goddamn it! Are you kidding me?!
Oh, no.
I hope for you
you got a permit for this?
- What?
- A permit, for that chicken shed.
Oh, damn it. Oh, what a mess.
Oh! Oh, no!
Goddamn.
- Oh, just look at my balloon!
- Your balloon? What about my chickens?
- Oh, fucking chickens.
- Hey!
- What's that shed doing on my property?
- What?
That shed's standing
on my land, ma'am.
Your land?
Go piss off!
I said piss off!
Hey!
Don't you dare, kid.
You're not gonna tell him to stop?
Are you going to allow your son to...?
Yes.
The next one will hit.
Monsieur.
- What do you mean, in writing?
- Huh?
Since when do we need things
in writing?
One second.
Batteries...
Herman, let me do it. Come on. Come on.
- Here.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Say something.
- One something, two...
Yeah, that's better.
No, Herman. I don't have it in writing.
Sir...
can I take a look at what you got here?
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Well, I don't think
there's much to talk about.
Look, look, I got the papers here.
It's about this parcel of land. No, no.
She has no right
to build anything on here.
Okay.
- The coop's on his property.
- Bullshit.
Yeah. He's leasing it from Bessems there.
Bessems? That coop's been there
for 30 years, Herman. 30 years!
- If you just had that in writing...
- Jesus, Herman. Are you deaf or what?
Okay.
- Oh, and Gaby?
- Huh?
I didn't see that. Not today.
Tomorrow's a different story, okay?
Fuck.
Kuif!
Hey. Hey, hey.
Stop the car. Stop the car! Hey, hey!
Are you crazy? Stop it!
- Bye, hon.
- Bye, mom! Bye!
Hat on.
Do you ever turn this thing on?
You need to hurry.
There's a herd of Germans coming in
and they can't get in their rooms yet.
Yilderim's going nuts.
I'd like to go to my room now.
Of course. I understand...
You want your rooms.
We're very sorry.
But if you wait in the lobby,
we'll have your room ready in a minute.
Thank you for your patience.
Bouillon?
Good Lord.
Throw that chicken in the soup. Go on.
Get to work. And, Gaby, this ends today.
Three problems in one month
is too much, you know.
Guten Tag, Auf Wiedersehen,
that's all the German I know.
I don't want to keep cleaning rooms
my whole life.
Sorry.
Didn't get much sleep?
He worries when I don't get enough sleep.
He worries about the baby, because there
must be something wrong with the baby.
We would've gone extinct ages ago if men
ever had to worry about giving birth.
A little bit more. A little more.
Stop! Stop, yeah, that's fine.
Okay. And stop. Yeah.
Okay. That's fine. Yeah, all good.
Everything okay?
She didn't want to walk again. I'm done.
Mom!
Mrs. Zelissen?
Mrs. Zelissen.
Here. Some extra for the trouble.
Come on, please.
You happy now?
Suit yourself then.
You can be alone if you want.
And if you need to use the john,
you can do it yourself.
Shit.
Fuck.
Oh!
I hate you!
Kuif!
Do you want me to be
the polar bear hunter?
- No!
- You can shoot me, then.
I promise you I'll die very slowly.
No, go away!
Hey.
You always forget about me.
I've got mail from Papa.
You want to read it?
Look.
- Pretty, huh?
- Yeah.
"My sweet boy. Today,
I've spotted 10 enormous polar bears.
That's a new record!
One of them got a little too curious.
I was trying to film it,
when it suddenly got too close.
Luckily, we had our snowmobiles, so we
got out of there as quick as possible.
The temperature here
also set a new record.
Last night,
it was minus 52 degrees Celsius."
- Cold.
- Whoa, that's really cold.
Aren't you glad you're here instead? Huh?
Yeah?
"I've received your drawing.
It's beautiful.
PS. The polar bears
also had a little baby.
It still had some baby fur on its head.
Try to guess which name I gave him."
It starts with a K and it ends with a F.
Do you know what it is?
- That's easy.
- Really?
A K and an F... that's my name!
You're so good at this!
How did you get so smart?
SKYE BALLOONS
AGRICULTURAL CONTRACTING FIRM
CRANES FOR RENPOND CLEANING GRASSLAND ENHANCEMENTS
PRETTIEST ROOSTER FROM THE
CENTER NETHERLANDS REGION
Skye Balloons:
Your unforgettable trip to the horizon
Hey! Hey!
Keep your filthy hands off my damn tree!
Ma'am, this tree isn't yours.
It's on my property.
- Understood?
- The tree is mine.
Hey, hey! Hey! What the hell
are you doing? Are you crazy?
Ma'am, please, back off,
otherwise somebody might get hurt.
I don't need an accident.
Accidents, yeah. Heaven forbid.
Oh. Oh, no. Hey, no!
Okay.
So you slammed into this man's home
while driving at high speed by accident?
- By accident!
- And you...
you shifted into reverse
and ended up hitting that billboard?
By accident.
You really need to relax, Herman.
- Yeah.
- No one can keep going like this.
- There's a lot that can go wrong.
- Herman.
Look, sepsis, hydrocephalus,
a breech birth.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Babies are just so...
Enough of that! That's enough. Okay?
Can we maybe focus on the
fact that this nice woman here
has wrecked my stuff?
- Mother...!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Relax.
- Gaby.
- Herman.
You can't destroy anything
belonging to your neighbor.
- It was an accident.
- Even if it was an accident.
Voil. There you go.
And you, Mr... Vleugelers.
Vleugelers.
It's actually French. Vleugelers.
- Vleu-zjuh-lay.
- Oh.
Vleuge...
"Zj", Herman. "Zj".
- Vleugelers, yeah?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Something like that.
- Okay.
Well, in the future, I suggest you
and your neighbor talk things through
before you start doing things on your
own, such as sawing ladders in two.
If you had gotten acquainted,
you would've known
that chestnut tree is a...
- That's none of your business.
- ...sore subject.
That's none of his business, Herman.
So, what do we do?
Shake hands. Make friends.
- Pardon.
- Yeah.
- And what about the damage?
- There's no damage.
If there was any damage,
which isn't the case,
that'd mean I'd have write a report
that's maybe 10 pages minimum.
Given my situation right now, I don't
have the energy or the time for this.
Is that clear?
So?
Jeez. That's fine. Don't do it.
See if I care. Whatever.
LAND REGISTER AND PROPERTY BORDERS
LAND REGISTER
ARCTIC EXPLORER
DEAR KUIF
Go on. Fly.
Fly. You have to go like this.
Come on. You can do it.
Come on...
Does he do that a lot?
About once a week.
- Why?
- I don't know. He wants to kill himself.
- Coffee?
- No, I'm good.
Could you pour me one of those?
Okay.
Do you know your son's in the freezer?
How many more times did I tell you
to not sit in the freezer like that?
How long, Mama? How long?
- How long, mommy? How long?
- My God.
- How long, Mama?
- 22 minutes and 34 seconds.
- Whoa, that's good, right?
- Real good. Now get in the bath.
It was 10 minutes longer than last time.
- Come on.
- I'm the best at this!
- Yeah.
- You can't do that, right, Mama?
No, I sure can't.
Come on. Let's get you...
- Why does he do that?
- Huh?
Why is that what he does?
What do you mean
why is this what he does that?
He wants to know how long he can stay
in the freezer before he freezes to death.
Your wine.
- It's frozen?
- From a tray.
- Out of the freezer?
- It was a good year.
So, why pour out the wine and put it in
the freezer if you liked the year so much?
To make sure it stays a good year.
You make these?
Snow globes?
They're not snow globes.
I hate snow.
First, from now on,
you keep your hands off that tree.
And second, 20 meters behind the coop
is your terrain.
Yeah, I'll agree to the first,
but from 10 meters.
Okay.
- And three...
- What three?
- I didn't say three.
- Yeah, I did.
Three, you'll have dinner with me.
What? Why not?
What? You and I?
I mean you, your son, her.
All of you come over
and then we have dinner together.
Your mother, your son, and you.
That's three, all right?
Three.
The uncompromising wind...
The uncompromising wind
can quickly reach speeds
up to 120 kilometers an hour.
And there are many other dangers one
must navigate, including snow storms,
cracks in glaciers and polar bears.
Wow.
What are you doing, Mommy?
I'm going to eat you right up!
In these areas, temperatures can
drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius.
Minus 40? But Papa's
postcard said it was minus 52.
Well...
It's cold, huh?
Huh? Do you like the new sign?
THE BATTLE OF THE EASYeah.
We were told
the Battle of the East is on July 10th,
but apparently that's incorrect.
Uno momento.
Yas.
But do you have a solution?
We made a reservation months ago.
We'd really like to go there,
but we're exhausted. Can you help us?
Yas?
Yas?
Yas?
Want to guess whose arm
is getting chopped off?
Yilderim.
Yilderim? So, he's the marshal?
Yeah, the last three years he's
avoided it and now he's taken the hit.
Well, that's nice.
- Think he'll be deaf or what?
- Who? Yilderim?
Oh, honey.
Last night, he was googling it.
He wanted to know how likely it was
that our child will be deaf. I said,
"I don't want to know. We'll see."
He says I'm insensitive.
What does he know?
Then we started arguing
and I don't back down.
If he's this worried about it now,
how will he be when the baby gets here?
- Yas.
- What?
The broom.
Hey.
It'll be okay.
I mean, he's Herman, right?
Herman just wants things to be fixed,
right away.
He can handle a fight between neighbors,
or a cat stuck in a tree,
but when it comes to this,
he can't do anything but wait.
But trust me,
when that child finally comes...
you'll be fine.
Shit, how's your French?
Yilderim's stuck with a mad French guy.
Pas de problme.
I didn't order this.
- Raaymakers.
- What is this?
Wait a second.
What is that, Momma?
A chicken cote.
- Sorry?
- It's a new chicken cote.
- What is that?
- It's a chicken coop.
Why does he keep calling it
a chicken cote?
- It's just a bunch of boards.
- It's a building kit.
It's a do-it-yourself kit.
Unfortunately,
it won't do anything by itself.
What it means is that
you have to be the one to build it.
- Ha-ha! That's easy!
- You think so?
So where are we going
to build this thing?
- Over here?
- Yup, over here.
This one goes...
Okay.
And this one goes...
Okay, okay.
Kuif, leave that lone.
Kuif, take it easy. Kuif.
Okay.
- Kuif, put that down.
- I know what I'm doing!
- Hey.
- Let him do his thing.
This one goes here,
and that one goes there!
Yeah?
Very nice.
We can take it from here.
Yeah, Momma. Let us do our thing.
- So, those walls are sturdy?
- Yeah.
- Okay, nice.
- I'll hammer this one in.
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you do that.
- Right there.
Don't you think it's too small
for all the chickens?
- We can fix that later.
- 'Cause we could also build on this side.
- We can expand it.
- Yeah. That's a very good idea.
That's good. That's good.
Give it a big push.
Yeah, okay.
- Put it in place.
- Yeah.
So, what'll we do next, the roof?
Okay, that's it.
Oh! Oh! Oh, oh!
Hey, buddy, it doesn't matter.
Come here. Take it easy. Hey, buddy.
It's all right. Don't you worry.
Come here.
I'll give you my cap, so,
from now on, you are the captain, okay?
The coop's going to be great.
Look. These are the original pins,
but we don't need them.
You're right. This is way better,
especially with the slide
- and the pool for the chickens and all.
- Yes!
Hah, yeah, okay.
Mom! Mom! Look! Come on, Mom!
- Wait a second.
- Mom!
Yes, I'm coming.
- Let's go! Come on!
- Right behind you.
Come on, Momma! Hurry!
As you can see, we took some inspiration
from the early works of Le Corbusier.
The truth?
Certainly, the most unique coop
ever built.
- Yeah!
- Hey, hey!
And he can enter through here. Come on.
And here's a little nest for him
to sleep in.
And, oh. And... and I can...
And if I want to, I can climb up here
and stand guard.
This is a castle. Bouillon will love it!
Are we going to paint it?
- You want to paint it?
- Yes.
Okay, what's your favorite color?
- Bouillon!
- Bouillon?
Look, Mommy! Look!
Wow. Looks beautiful.
You certainly put in a lot of effort.
The most beautiful balloon trip I've
ever made was probably... in Myanmar.
Yeah. With the Intha tribe.
That's a tribe that lives high up
in the mountains, near a big lake.
And they don't just live close to it,
but actually on top of the lake.
- Wow.
- In stilt houses.
And if you take off there, at night,
before the sun rises,
when it's completely dark...
what you'll see is totally stunning.
- Wow! What is it?
- Okay, Kuif, imagine this.
- You take off when in the black of night.
- Yeah.
And when you look up,
you see millions of twinkling stars.
And when you look down over
the edge of the basket,
- you know what else you'll see?
- No.
Another sky full of stars.
- How's that possible?
- Aha.
- It's the fishermen.
- Huh?
They take their boats on the water,
with the lights turned on to attract fish.
- Wow. Yeah.
- Smart, huh?
And what...
what's this supposed to be?
Meatballs.
Yeah, Mom. Duh.
Didn't your mother want to come?
Only chicken for Grandma.
- Only chicken?
- Yeah.
- With?
- Chicken.
Grandma used to eat everything.
But a while ago Grandpa fell out of a tree
after Bouillon was trying to get into it.
And then he was just dead.
And then Grandma got sick,
- and that's when she started to only eat...
- Yeah.
He really doesn't need
to know all that. Okay?
- Can you see the North Pole?
- The North Pole?
Yes, my dad lives there.
He used to live with me and Mom, but
then he heard there were some bad guys
who wanted to shoot all the polar bears.
And he went there like...
And then he said, "You have Momma,
but the polar bears don't have anybody
- to take care of them."
- Yeah. Really?
- Yeah, I know, right?
- Oh.
It was delicious. Kuif?
- Right now?
- Yeah. You have school tomorrow.
- I also made dessert.
- Dessert!
- We'll take it with us. Thank you.
- Okay.
- Thank you for the nice dinner.
- My pleasure, really.
- Salut, Capitaine.
- Yeah, salut.
Come on, Mom.
Yes, you can.
Don't.
Just grab them.
You can try. You can at least try.
Nothing will happen.
I'm standing right here.
Swallow them.
God has given us
another beautiful day.
Let us bask again in the glory
of his righteousness.
This is Christian WGAM.
Nice.
Apologies. It's bottled.
Why would anyone be a balloonist?
The wind.
- The wind?
- Yeah.
It's like life itself. You're planning
to go in a certain direction,
and then the wind...
blows you a totally different way.
Nothing you can do.
It's not like you can't fight it.
The wind... wins always.
Yeah, it can smack you in the face.
But it can lift you up as well.
Like you're floating and...
flying so high...
makes you forget about life down here.
And it makes feel like you...
could almost touch heaven.
Almost doesn't count.
Almost doesn't mean anything.
Is he always walking?
- Where does he go?
- You can kiss me if you want.
Yeah, you don't have to.
Yeah, okay, that's enough.
- Mommy, mommy, get him out.
- Settle down. It'll be fine.
- But what if they try to kill him, though?
- No, they will not.
They just need to get used to each
other. Huh? It's the same with people.
Look at them.
Bonjour!
We got new chickens. You should come look.
Don't worry.
They're not trying to kill each other.
They're just trying to get used
to everything. Right, Momma?
Yeah.
Go play for a bit.
- Okay. I'm going to go shoot Grandma!
- Finally!
Good luck, Capitaine.
Okay. Come on, sweetie.
Will 300 be enough
to cover the chickens?
Yeah.
- Great.
- Thank you.
Oh, the scissors.
- Sorry?
- Bottom left in the chest.
Yeah, thank you.
Doesn't that hurt?
No, it's...
It's kind of like cutting their nails.
Not now.
Not here.
That's a fossil from Colombia.
It came out of the jungle.
That is a Peruvian totem.
It's supposed to offer protection
against evil, bad harvests...
hair loss...
You're making that up.
Have you ever seen a balding Peruvian?
One, this stays with you and me.
And no one else.
Two, outside this door,
we're only neighbors.
And three, this means nothing.
This means nothing.
Do we have a deal?
May God's heaven
witness my noble ser...
serve... observe evidence...
of my angelic courage...
May God's heavens fully witness
the noble proof of my
angelic courage on this day.
Come on. Let me.
There.
You'll be fine.
- Hey. Let me help you. Okay.
- That button!
- Are you good?
- Everything's fine, okay?
It's better like this.
You've been doing it on your own, right?
Yas.
You've been with Herman 11 years.
Yeah.
Hey.
Here.
- Hey. You got to talk to him.
- He won't touch me
- because he's afraid he'll hurt the baby.
- Talk to him, Yas.
He won't listen.
- Yeah, talk louder.
- You've managed to do it alone, right?
Look how Kuif turned out...
I mean, he turned out...
- Look at me. I'm whale.
- What? No.
Hey.
You're not a whale.
How do you know?
How'd he know?
I'll pay for it.
I'm sorry I got mad...
Better?
I know. I know. I know, honey.
Yeah.
God give me patience.
Give us all patience.
- Hey, Kuif. Is that better?
- Yeah.
What are you two doing?
Holy shit!
What about now?
Well, the sun is shining
and thanks to that,
as well as some hot air coming in...
- we'll be seeing a significant increase
in temperature across that region.
That might be the start...
And now...
Oh.
Well, we got that fixed.
Trs bien, mon capitaine.
Hey, well done, mate.
Oh, you're home.
Yeah.
I'm home, yeah.
I... I mean we just made
the radio reception a bit better.
Can we go up in it?
- Go up in what?
- The balloon.
I thought coming up with me
some time could be fun.
If you want to.
- Okay...
- Should I walk you out?
Sure.
Capitaine.
- Gaby, I just wanted to help...
- No.
Bouillon, I'm going to get you.
- It's only a radio.
- No.
You know what your problem is?
- You never trust anything or anyone.
- Correct.
- To the car!
- So you know.
- You will learn how to fly!
- I don't trust anyone.
And I've lived this long.
And that's enough for you?
That you're alive?
- Come on! Fly! Use your wings!
- Yeah.
That's enough, yeah.
Go on, fly! You got to!
And you think that's enough for him too?
Yeah, like, this.
Come on. Fly!
You're not going to get hurt!
I'm right here! Come on, fly!
Come on. Why aren't you trying?
It's so big in here!
So, welcome, everybody here
in my beautiful balloon cathedral.
As you can see, we're inflating cold air
now into the balloon.
And don't you worry. It won't fly away.
We need hot air before
we can take off, of course.
So, don't be afraid. That's
why we're not using hot air now.
And when I pull this thing...
Whoa.
- Then we go up.
- Now? Now? Now?
No, no, no, but really soon,
mon capitaine.
No, the balloon is full.
Tomorrow?
- Yeah, they can get in on the other side.
- Tomorrow you have school, hon.
- The day after?
- Hey, how about this weekend?
- Can Bouillon come?
- Sure, why not?
- And Grandma!
- Well, Kuif, I...
I don't think Grandma...
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
- Just to try?
No, not a chance.
- Mom has a fear of heights.
- No, no way.
No, she does.
It's impossible to be afraid of heights
in a hot-air balloon. It's impossible.
Didn't you know?
There is scientific proof of this.
You can only experience fear of heights
if there's contact with the ground.
For instance, if you were trying to
climb up a tree or walk up a church tower.
Sure, but not in a hot air balloon.
Your brain is willing to accept
that the bottom of the basket
is the ground under your feet,
so you rise up...
but your brain thinks
you're still on the ground.
Oh, well, it's like you were saying...
for some people being alive is enough.
Here we go!
Whoa!
I'll go.
- What was that?
- I'll go up with you.
Promise?
Yeah, I promise.
- What she say, Kuif?
- Promised.
- She fruffets?
- No, promised.
- She vomits?
- No, she promised.
- She promised!
- Yeah. Bye.
Salut, capitaine.
Fly. Come on! Come on! Fly.
Wow, again.
SKYE BALLOON AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY
TO THE HORIZON
BEST ROOSTER IN THE DISTRICWINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
I'll get that one. Where are we going?
Not many people
are in a relationship with a balloon.
Don't you think you should tell him?
At some point, he's going
to ask questions, you know.
Some things you shouldn't tell
your kids about.
So you'll just keep lying to him?
- He has a father.
- Yeah.
So that's not a lie.
And he's not here. So that's not a lie.
- Yeah, but I don't like it.
- Not now.
- You can't just do that...
- Not... now.
It's still a lie, Gaby.
You can't just keep lying to your kid
like that.
Hey, hey, hey. No, no.
Come on. Stay.
Wait, don't leave. Gaby. Gaby.
Do you have kids?
There you go.
Leave us alone.
You can go and be the perfect father
somewhere else.
Don't. Don't you...
No. No. No!
Arnaud?
Sorry.
Hey, sorry.
- This is not going to work.
- Huh?
- But we can...
- No.
No, it stops here.
You were right.
- One, this stays with you and me.
- Please, don't.
No one else.
- Don't do this. No, please.
- Two, outside this door, we're neighbors.
That's all.
No.
And three...
This means nothing. Huh?
We're going up
in a hot-air balloon!
We're going up in a hot-air balloon!
Hat off.
Kuif, hat off.
You never let me have chocolate
in the morning before.
Well... lucky you.
Huh! My binoculars!
Where'd my binoculars go?
- Kuif?
- Yes!
- How far can I see with this?
- Kuif.
- Wow. It's so close!
- Come and sit down.
My stopwatch!
Come. Come here. Come. Come sit down.
Calm... Calm down. Stop it, Kuif.
Hey, Kuif.
We're not going.
We're not going in the balloon.
But didn't you promise we would.
Yeah, I know I did, but...
- You already promised me we would.
- Yeah.
You promise we would! I hate you!
Say it, Ma.
Terrible mother and daughter.
Right?
Kuif?
Kuif, your bag.
Kuif?
PIE RAAYMAKERS HUSBAND AND FATHER
Never had much in the way of words.
Nothing.
No hello, anything.
I thought he doesn't like me at all...
a dead end.
Then he's at my door the next day
with a dead hare as a gift.
And he never left after that.
Does it help?
The walking, does it help?
Goddamn it.
Great. It was short notice. I know.
Kevin, would you mind telling us
about what happened?
Okay. How about you wait in the hallway?
He reminds me of you daily.
Do you know what we used to say about you?
If she's in a good mood,
she can open the gates to heaven...
But brace yourself
if it doesn't go her way.
Is everything with Mientje
and the chickens?
He's a lovely boy.
Eager to learn, smart.
Energetic.
When it comes to what he destroyed,
I'm willing to overlook it.
And the fact that he kicked Mr. Louie,
well...
I'm pretty sure he can handle that.
But it's the fact he hit a child, Gaby.
- I'll have a word with him.
- I'm sorry, but he needs to be suspended.
Until everything has calmed down.
Okay, let go, please.
Now you can pull from the front first.
Okay, keep going. Come on, Wouter.
Keep pulling. Keep pulling!
Yeah, okay.
Momma! Momma!
Momma! It's Grandma! Come on!
Oh, Mom, hey.
Don't worry about it.
It's just an accident.
Happens to everybody.
It's okay. We'll be quick.
Here. Come on. Oh.
There we go.
There...
Unbuttoning.
There.
Okay, hold on to me.
One, two, three, up!
Yeah. Yes, I've almost got it.
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Okay. There we go. Good.
We had trouble with the car.
Should've taken that hunk of junk
to the scrapyard already.
Huh.
You've always had such great hair.
You remember
how I always wanted to brush it?
What would Papa say...?
Brush that hair.
Brush your hair as hard as you can.
Not one hair will come loose.
He'd always look so proud,
as if it was his own hair.
I know, Momma.
Me, too.
I do, too.
A little bit more every day.
Come on, Mom. Come on.
Okay, hold on to me.
Up-sa.
Yes. There you go.
Okay.
Kuif, I'm lying down a minute okay?
Can you watch Grandma?
You need to tell me
when the water gets cold, okay?
Oh, Momma!
- What's the matter with Grandma?
- Where were you?
- What happened to Grandma?
- You were supposed to watch her.
- But I did watch her.
- I'll pull the plug.
You were supposed to warn me
when the water got cold.
- But it wasn't cold!
- Give me the plunger.
- What happened to grandma, though?
- The plunger, Kuif. Give it to me.
It wasn't cold.
It's really cold where Dad is,
minus 52 degrees up there.
- Don't talk about your father.
- At the North Pole, it gets really cold!
Shut the fuck up about Papa!
- I want to be with Papa!
- Yeah, well, you can't.
- Papa's nicer. I'm going to leave!
- Nice?
Let me tell you how nice your father is!
Your father is a piece of shit who gets
girls pregnant and then disappears.
- Your father has never reached out once!
- No! Papa sends cards to us!
You wish he did!
Kuif! Kuif?
Oh! Oh, Momma! Oh, Momma. Hey, hey, Momma.
- Gaby?
- Yes, here. Here!
Momma, Momma, hey. Come on. Momma, hey.
Come on. Come on.
- Okay, easy.
- Momma, hey, hey.
Hold on to me.
Okay. Hold tight.
- It's okay.
- Yes!
- Momma, hey.
- Yes. I got you.
Come on. Okay.
Momma, Momma, hey, hey.
It's okay. Come on.
Come on.
I wasn't here when it started.
I think she must have put her
in the bath, and after a while...
You're back with us.
How are you feel feeling?
I need to... I should go.
Yeah.
There... There's a group I...
Help. Help. Momma! Momma, help!
Help, Momma!
- Wait!
- No!
Help!
Momma, help!
- Kuif!
- Kuif! We're coming!
Help!
Kuif!
Momma!
- Kuif.
- Momma.
- Kuif.
- Momma!
- Help!
- Kuif!
Help! Help! Help!
Fire!
Everyone, charge!
Fire!
Aha! Ha!
May God's heaven fully witness the noble
proof of my angelic courage on this day!
Help!
Help!
Momma!
Help! Momma!
Oh.
- Momma!
- Kuif.
- Momma, help! Help!
- Kuif.
Kuif!
- Momma!
- Kuif.
Momma, help!
Hold on!
Kuif!
- Hang in there!
- Help, Momma.
Kuif!
Come on!
Mom! Mom!
Hold on! Hold on tight.
- Kuif!
- Kuif!
- Come on!
- Kuif.
- Jump!
- Jump down! Jump!
- We'll catch you!
- I'll catch you!
Come on, Jump!
What if he gets hit by a tractor
or what if a fox gets him?
Oh, no, he won't.
Bouillon found a nice comfy place
in a tree.
And he'll just hang out there until dawn.
Come.
Hey.
You want to know something?
About your real papa?
Is it bad?
Is what, honey?
Is it okay
if you kind of hope that someone...
that someone else could be your dad?
No honey. No, sweetie,
nothing about that is bad.
Hey. It's okay.
Yeah, okay, great!
Very, very good. Okay, very good.
Yes, load it up. Okay, there we go.
There we go. Yeah. Just a little more.
A little bit more.
Okay, stop, stop, stop. Okay, just...
That's it. Stop!
You can set it down. Perfect!
I didn't want to wake you.
What now?
He's leaving.
- Talk to him.
- He can't hear me.
Then tell him louder.
Mom?
But how? I cannot just... I don't...
I can't do it. I just... I don't know how.
You... talk to him.
Okay.
Kuif wants you to stay.
- Just nothing for me here.
- I want you to stay.
I want you to leave, Gaby.
Who is Skye?
Leave me alone. I want you to go.
- Is she your daughter?
- She...
was.
Hey.
No, don't touch me.
- Don't touch me. Please leave me alone.
- I'm not leaving.
- No, no! Let me... Let me go!
- I'm not leaving.
Don't touch me! Get out!
Get out!
Hey.
Whoa.
Oh.
Oh! Oh, no! Oh, God. Oh.
Okay.
Mommy, look. Bouillon!
Yay.
Ha!
- Oh, no. Not another glass.
I can't deal with wine.
- Oh!
- Yay!
- Oh!
- Get ready!
- Wow!
- Dessert!
That's a beautiful dessert.
Say hi.
Hey.
Whoa, whoa, be gentle, okay?
You can touch him, Kuif.
Grr!
Solidarity. You know, for the baby
Oh, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Can you climb up there?
- Yeah. Why not?
Oh, okay.
Cheers. What are we drinking to?
- Cheers to chickens.
- I know!
Yeah, he flew!
To all the chickens.
Bouillon! Where are you?
Bouillon!
Come back here. Come on!
Go that way. Cut him off!
- Bouillon!
- Oh. No, no. No.
- Come back.
- Bouillon!
GODFRIED OF BOUILLON
BOUILLON IS THE PRETTIESOF THE SHOW RAAYMAKERS
TO ENTER DUTCH CHAMPIONSHIP
WITH BOUILLON
Oh, dear, get him down!
- He'll hurt himself.
- I know! I know! I need a ladder.
Come here.
Lean it against the tree right here.
- Be careful.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay. I got you.
Yeah, yeah.
Come here, Bouillon.
Oh! Oh!
Come on. Come here. There.
Gaby, what... what are you doing?
Oh.
Gaby...
No, stop it. Oh!
Oh! Oh!
Gaby. Sweetheart,
you have to stay, please.
Do it for me.
Here you go. Come here.
Mientje!
THE BALLOONISPRESENT DAY
Kuif?
Kuif, did you let Bouillon
out of his coop?
No.
How many more times
do you need to be told?
- You know he'll just run away.
- He'll fly away.
Kuif, chickens don't fly.
Bouillon has to stay in his coop.
- Yeah? Are we clear?
- No!
Okay, come here. Come here!
Goddamn it, Kuif!
Come here.
Grandma is the boss!
Grandma is the boss!
Call me when you're done, okay?
Kuif, no chocolates for breakfast.
Yeah, sure. Just wreck the entire kitchen.
Kuif?
Kuif!
I didn't do anything!
Oh, no!
Come on! Come on!
No!
Oh, damn! Come on!
Oh, holy shit!
Oh, damn! Oh, no!
Oh, no! Goddamn it! Are you kidding me?!
Oh, no.
I hope for you
you got a permit for this?
- What?
- A permit, for that chicken shed.
Oh, damn it. Oh, what a mess.
Oh! Oh, no!
Goddamn.
- Oh, just look at my balloon!
- Your balloon? What about my chickens?
- Oh, fucking chickens.
- Hey!
- What's that shed doing on my property?
- What?
That shed's standing
on my land, ma'am.
Your land?
Go piss off!
I said piss off!
Hey!
Don't you dare, kid.
You're not gonna tell him to stop?
Are you going to allow your son to...?
Yes.
The next one will hit.
Monsieur.
- What do you mean, in writing?
- Huh?
Since when do we need things
in writing?
One second.
Batteries...
Herman, let me do it. Come on. Come on.
- Here.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Say something.
- One something, two...
Yeah, that's better.
No, Herman. I don't have it in writing.
Sir...
can I take a look at what you got here?
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Well, I don't think
there's much to talk about.
Look, look, I got the papers here.
It's about this parcel of land. No, no.
She has no right
to build anything on here.
Okay.
- The coop's on his property.
- Bullshit.
Yeah. He's leasing it from Bessems there.
Bessems? That coop's been there
for 30 years, Herman. 30 years!
- If you just had that in writing...
- Jesus, Herman. Are you deaf or what?
Okay.
- Oh, and Gaby?
- Huh?
I didn't see that. Not today.
Tomorrow's a different story, okay?
Fuck.
Kuif!
Hey. Hey, hey.
Stop the car. Stop the car! Hey, hey!
Are you crazy? Stop it!
- Bye, hon.
- Bye, mom! Bye!
Hat on.
Do you ever turn this thing on?
You need to hurry.
There's a herd of Germans coming in
and they can't get in their rooms yet.
Yilderim's going nuts.
I'd like to go to my room now.
Of course. I understand...
You want your rooms.
We're very sorry.
But if you wait in the lobby,
we'll have your room ready in a minute.
Thank you for your patience.
Bouillon?
Good Lord.
Throw that chicken in the soup. Go on.
Get to work. And, Gaby, this ends today.
Three problems in one month
is too much, you know.
Guten Tag, Auf Wiedersehen,
that's all the German I know.
I don't want to keep cleaning rooms
my whole life.
Sorry.
Didn't get much sleep?
He worries when I don't get enough sleep.
He worries about the baby, because there
must be something wrong with the baby.
We would've gone extinct ages ago if men
ever had to worry about giving birth.
A little bit more. A little more.
Stop! Stop, yeah, that's fine.
Okay. And stop. Yeah.
Okay. That's fine. Yeah, all good.
Everything okay?
She didn't want to walk again. I'm done.
Mom!
Mrs. Zelissen?
Mrs. Zelissen.
Here. Some extra for the trouble.
Come on, please.
You happy now?
Suit yourself then.
You can be alone if you want.
And if you need to use the john,
you can do it yourself.
Shit.
Fuck.
Oh!
I hate you!
Kuif!
Do you want me to be
the polar bear hunter?
- No!
- You can shoot me, then.
I promise you I'll die very slowly.
No, go away!
Hey.
You always forget about me.
I've got mail from Papa.
You want to read it?
Look.
- Pretty, huh?
- Yeah.
"My sweet boy. Today,
I've spotted 10 enormous polar bears.
That's a new record!
One of them got a little too curious.
I was trying to film it,
when it suddenly got too close.
Luckily, we had our snowmobiles, so we
got out of there as quick as possible.
The temperature here
also set a new record.
Last night,
it was minus 52 degrees Celsius."
- Cold.
- Whoa, that's really cold.
Aren't you glad you're here instead? Huh?
Yeah?
"I've received your drawing.
It's beautiful.
PS. The polar bears
also had a little baby.
It still had some baby fur on its head.
Try to guess which name I gave him."
It starts with a K and it ends with a F.
Do you know what it is?
- That's easy.
- Really?
A K and an F... that's my name!
You're so good at this!
How did you get so smart?
SKYE BALLOONS
AGRICULTURAL CONTRACTING FIRM
CRANES FOR RENPOND CLEANING GRASSLAND ENHANCEMENTS
PRETTIEST ROOSTER FROM THE
CENTER NETHERLANDS REGION
Skye Balloons:
Your unforgettable trip to the horizon
Hey! Hey!
Keep your filthy hands off my damn tree!
Ma'am, this tree isn't yours.
It's on my property.
- Understood?
- The tree is mine.
Hey, hey! Hey! What the hell
are you doing? Are you crazy?
Ma'am, please, back off,
otherwise somebody might get hurt.
I don't need an accident.
Accidents, yeah. Heaven forbid.
Oh. Oh, no. Hey, no!
Okay.
So you slammed into this man's home
while driving at high speed by accident?
- By accident!
- And you...
you shifted into reverse
and ended up hitting that billboard?
By accident.
You really need to relax, Herman.
- Yeah.
- No one can keep going like this.
- There's a lot that can go wrong.
- Herman.
Look, sepsis, hydrocephalus,
a breech birth.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Babies are just so...
Enough of that! That's enough. Okay?
Can we maybe focus on the
fact that this nice woman here
has wrecked my stuff?
- Mother...!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Relax.
- Gaby.
- Herman.
You can't destroy anything
belonging to your neighbor.
- It was an accident.
- Even if it was an accident.
Voil. There you go.
And you, Mr... Vleugelers.
Vleugelers.
It's actually French. Vleugelers.
- Vleu-zjuh-lay.
- Oh.
Vleuge...
"Zj", Herman. "Zj".
- Vleugelers, yeah?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Something like that.
- Okay.
Well, in the future, I suggest you
and your neighbor talk things through
before you start doing things on your
own, such as sawing ladders in two.
If you had gotten acquainted,
you would've known
that chestnut tree is a...
- That's none of your business.
- ...sore subject.
That's none of his business, Herman.
So, what do we do?
Shake hands. Make friends.
- Pardon.
- Yeah.
- And what about the damage?
- There's no damage.
If there was any damage,
which isn't the case,
that'd mean I'd have write a report
that's maybe 10 pages minimum.
Given my situation right now, I don't
have the energy or the time for this.
Is that clear?
So?
Jeez. That's fine. Don't do it.
See if I care. Whatever.
LAND REGISTER AND PROPERTY BORDERS
LAND REGISTER
ARCTIC EXPLORER
DEAR KUIF
Go on. Fly.
Fly. You have to go like this.
Come on. You can do it.
Come on...
Does he do that a lot?
About once a week.
- Why?
- I don't know. He wants to kill himself.
- Coffee?
- No, I'm good.
Could you pour me one of those?
Okay.
Do you know your son's in the freezer?
How many more times did I tell you
to not sit in the freezer like that?
How long, Mama? How long?
- How long, mommy? How long?
- My God.
- How long, Mama?
- 22 minutes and 34 seconds.
- Whoa, that's good, right?
- Real good. Now get in the bath.
It was 10 minutes longer than last time.
- Come on.
- I'm the best at this!
- Yeah.
- You can't do that, right, Mama?
No, I sure can't.
Come on. Let's get you...
- Why does he do that?
- Huh?
Why is that what he does?
What do you mean
why is this what he does that?
He wants to know how long he can stay
in the freezer before he freezes to death.
Your wine.
- It's frozen?
- From a tray.
- Out of the freezer?
- It was a good year.
So, why pour out the wine and put it in
the freezer if you liked the year so much?
To make sure it stays a good year.
You make these?
Snow globes?
They're not snow globes.
I hate snow.
First, from now on,
you keep your hands off that tree.
And second, 20 meters behind the coop
is your terrain.
Yeah, I'll agree to the first,
but from 10 meters.
Okay.
- And three...
- What three?
- I didn't say three.
- Yeah, I did.
Three, you'll have dinner with me.
What? Why not?
What? You and I?
I mean you, your son, her.
All of you come over
and then we have dinner together.
Your mother, your son, and you.
That's three, all right?
Three.
The uncompromising wind...
The uncompromising wind
can quickly reach speeds
up to 120 kilometers an hour.
And there are many other dangers one
must navigate, including snow storms,
cracks in glaciers and polar bears.
Wow.
What are you doing, Mommy?
I'm going to eat you right up!
In these areas, temperatures can
drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius.
Minus 40? But Papa's
postcard said it was minus 52.
Well...
It's cold, huh?
Huh? Do you like the new sign?
THE BATTLE OF THE EASYeah.
We were told
the Battle of the East is on July 10th,
but apparently that's incorrect.
Uno momento.
Yas.
But do you have a solution?
We made a reservation months ago.
We'd really like to go there,
but we're exhausted. Can you help us?
Yas?
Yas?
Yas?
Want to guess whose arm
is getting chopped off?
Yilderim.
Yilderim? So, he's the marshal?
Yeah, the last three years he's
avoided it and now he's taken the hit.
Well, that's nice.
- Think he'll be deaf or what?
- Who? Yilderim?
Oh, honey.
Last night, he was googling it.
He wanted to know how likely it was
that our child will be deaf. I said,
"I don't want to know. We'll see."
He says I'm insensitive.
What does he know?
Then we started arguing
and I don't back down.
If he's this worried about it now,
how will he be when the baby gets here?
- Yas.
- What?
The broom.
Hey.
It'll be okay.
I mean, he's Herman, right?
Herman just wants things to be fixed,
right away.
He can handle a fight between neighbors,
or a cat stuck in a tree,
but when it comes to this,
he can't do anything but wait.
But trust me,
when that child finally comes...
you'll be fine.
Shit, how's your French?
Yilderim's stuck with a mad French guy.
Pas de problme.
I didn't order this.
- Raaymakers.
- What is this?
Wait a second.
What is that, Momma?
A chicken cote.
- Sorry?
- It's a new chicken cote.
- What is that?
- It's a chicken coop.
Why does he keep calling it
a chicken cote?
- It's just a bunch of boards.
- It's a building kit.
It's a do-it-yourself kit.
Unfortunately,
it won't do anything by itself.
What it means is that
you have to be the one to build it.
- Ha-ha! That's easy!
- You think so?
So where are we going
to build this thing?
- Over here?
- Yup, over here.
This one goes...
Okay.
And this one goes...
Okay, okay.
Kuif, leave that lone.
Kuif, take it easy. Kuif.
Okay.
- Kuif, put that down.
- I know what I'm doing!
- Hey.
- Let him do his thing.
This one goes here,
and that one goes there!
Yeah?
Very nice.
We can take it from here.
Yeah, Momma. Let us do our thing.
- So, those walls are sturdy?
- Yeah.
- Okay, nice.
- I'll hammer this one in.
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you do that.
- Right there.
Don't you think it's too small
for all the chickens?
- We can fix that later.
- 'Cause we could also build on this side.
- We can expand it.
- Yeah. That's a very good idea.
That's good. That's good.
Give it a big push.
Yeah, okay.
- Put it in place.
- Yeah.
So, what'll we do next, the roof?
Okay, that's it.
Oh! Oh! Oh, oh!
Hey, buddy, it doesn't matter.
Come here. Take it easy. Hey, buddy.
It's all right. Don't you worry.
Come here.
I'll give you my cap, so,
from now on, you are the captain, okay?
The coop's going to be great.
Look. These are the original pins,
but we don't need them.
You're right. This is way better,
especially with the slide
- and the pool for the chickens and all.
- Yes!
Hah, yeah, okay.
Mom! Mom! Look! Come on, Mom!
- Wait a second.
- Mom!
Yes, I'm coming.
- Let's go! Come on!
- Right behind you.
Come on, Momma! Hurry!
As you can see, we took some inspiration
from the early works of Le Corbusier.
The truth?
Certainly, the most unique coop
ever built.
- Yeah!
- Hey, hey!
And he can enter through here. Come on.
And here's a little nest for him
to sleep in.
And, oh. And... and I can...
And if I want to, I can climb up here
and stand guard.
This is a castle. Bouillon will love it!
Are we going to paint it?
- You want to paint it?
- Yes.
Okay, what's your favorite color?
- Bouillon!
- Bouillon?
Look, Mommy! Look!
Wow. Looks beautiful.
You certainly put in a lot of effort.
The most beautiful balloon trip I've
ever made was probably... in Myanmar.
Yeah. With the Intha tribe.
That's a tribe that lives high up
in the mountains, near a big lake.
And they don't just live close to it,
but actually on top of the lake.
- Wow.
- In stilt houses.
And if you take off there, at night,
before the sun rises,
when it's completely dark...
what you'll see is totally stunning.
- Wow! What is it?
- Okay, Kuif, imagine this.
- You take off when in the black of night.
- Yeah.
And when you look up,
you see millions of twinkling stars.
And when you look down over
the edge of the basket,
- you know what else you'll see?
- No.
Another sky full of stars.
- How's that possible?
- Aha.
- It's the fishermen.
- Huh?
They take their boats on the water,
with the lights turned on to attract fish.
- Wow. Yeah.
- Smart, huh?
And what...
what's this supposed to be?
Meatballs.
Yeah, Mom. Duh.
Didn't your mother want to come?
Only chicken for Grandma.
- Only chicken?
- Yeah.
- With?
- Chicken.
Grandma used to eat everything.
But a while ago Grandpa fell out of a tree
after Bouillon was trying to get into it.
And then he was just dead.
And then Grandma got sick,
- and that's when she started to only eat...
- Yeah.
He really doesn't need
to know all that. Okay?
- Can you see the North Pole?
- The North Pole?
Yes, my dad lives there.
He used to live with me and Mom, but
then he heard there were some bad guys
who wanted to shoot all the polar bears.
And he went there like...
And then he said, "You have Momma,
but the polar bears don't have anybody
- to take care of them."
- Yeah. Really?
- Yeah, I know, right?
- Oh.
It was delicious. Kuif?
- Right now?
- Yeah. You have school tomorrow.
- I also made dessert.
- Dessert!
- We'll take it with us. Thank you.
- Okay.
- Thank you for the nice dinner.
- My pleasure, really.
- Salut, Capitaine.
- Yeah, salut.
Come on, Mom.
Yes, you can.
Don't.
Just grab them.
You can try. You can at least try.
Nothing will happen.
I'm standing right here.
Swallow them.
God has given us
another beautiful day.
Let us bask again in the glory
of his righteousness.
This is Christian WGAM.
Nice.
Apologies. It's bottled.
Why would anyone be a balloonist?
The wind.
- The wind?
- Yeah.
It's like life itself. You're planning
to go in a certain direction,
and then the wind...
blows you a totally different way.
Nothing you can do.
It's not like you can't fight it.
The wind... wins always.
Yeah, it can smack you in the face.
But it can lift you up as well.
Like you're floating and...
flying so high...
makes you forget about life down here.
And it makes feel like you...
could almost touch heaven.
Almost doesn't count.
Almost doesn't mean anything.
Is he always walking?
- Where does he go?
- You can kiss me if you want.
Yeah, you don't have to.
Yeah, okay, that's enough.
- Mommy, mommy, get him out.
- Settle down. It'll be fine.
- But what if they try to kill him, though?
- No, they will not.
They just need to get used to each
other. Huh? It's the same with people.
Look at them.
Bonjour!
We got new chickens. You should come look.
Don't worry.
They're not trying to kill each other.
They're just trying to get used
to everything. Right, Momma?
Yeah.
Go play for a bit.
- Okay. I'm going to go shoot Grandma!
- Finally!
Good luck, Capitaine.
Okay. Come on, sweetie.
Will 300 be enough
to cover the chickens?
Yeah.
- Great.
- Thank you.
Oh, the scissors.
- Sorry?
- Bottom left in the chest.
Yeah, thank you.
Doesn't that hurt?
No, it's...
It's kind of like cutting their nails.
Not now.
Not here.
That's a fossil from Colombia.
It came out of the jungle.
That is a Peruvian totem.
It's supposed to offer protection
against evil, bad harvests...
hair loss...
You're making that up.
Have you ever seen a balding Peruvian?
One, this stays with you and me.
And no one else.
Two, outside this door,
we're only neighbors.
And three, this means nothing.
This means nothing.
Do we have a deal?
May God's heaven
witness my noble ser...
serve... observe evidence...
of my angelic courage...
May God's heavens fully witness
the noble proof of my
angelic courage on this day.
Come on. Let me.
There.
You'll be fine.
- Hey. Let me help you. Okay.
- That button!
- Are you good?
- Everything's fine, okay?
It's better like this.
You've been doing it on your own, right?
Yas.
You've been with Herman 11 years.
Yeah.
Hey.
Here.
- Hey. You got to talk to him.
- He won't touch me
- because he's afraid he'll hurt the baby.
- Talk to him, Yas.
He won't listen.
- Yeah, talk louder.
- You've managed to do it alone, right?
Look how Kuif turned out...
I mean, he turned out...
- Look at me. I'm whale.
- What? No.
Hey.
You're not a whale.
How do you know?
How'd he know?
I'll pay for it.
I'm sorry I got mad...
Better?
I know. I know. I know, honey.
Yeah.
God give me patience.
Give us all patience.
- Hey, Kuif. Is that better?
- Yeah.
What are you two doing?
Holy shit!
What about now?
Well, the sun is shining
and thanks to that,
as well as some hot air coming in...
- we'll be seeing a significant increase
in temperature across that region.
That might be the start...
And now...
Oh.
Well, we got that fixed.
Trs bien, mon capitaine.
Hey, well done, mate.
Oh, you're home.
Yeah.
I'm home, yeah.
I... I mean we just made
the radio reception a bit better.
Can we go up in it?
- Go up in what?
- The balloon.
I thought coming up with me
some time could be fun.
If you want to.
- Okay...
- Should I walk you out?
Sure.
Capitaine.
- Gaby, I just wanted to help...
- No.
Bouillon, I'm going to get you.
- It's only a radio.
- No.
You know what your problem is?
- You never trust anything or anyone.
- Correct.
- To the car!
- So you know.
- You will learn how to fly!
- I don't trust anyone.
And I've lived this long.
And that's enough for you?
That you're alive?
- Come on! Fly! Use your wings!
- Yeah.
That's enough, yeah.
Go on, fly! You got to!
And you think that's enough for him too?
Yeah, like, this.
Come on. Fly!
You're not going to get hurt!
I'm right here! Come on, fly!
Come on. Why aren't you trying?
It's so big in here!
So, welcome, everybody here
in my beautiful balloon cathedral.
As you can see, we're inflating cold air
now into the balloon.
And don't you worry. It won't fly away.
We need hot air before
we can take off, of course.
So, don't be afraid. That's
why we're not using hot air now.
And when I pull this thing...
Whoa.
- Then we go up.
- Now? Now? Now?
No, no, no, but really soon,
mon capitaine.
No, the balloon is full.
Tomorrow?
- Yeah, they can get in on the other side.
- Tomorrow you have school, hon.
- The day after?
- Hey, how about this weekend?
- Can Bouillon come?
- Sure, why not?
- And Grandma!
- Well, Kuif, I...
I don't think Grandma...
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
- Just to try?
No, not a chance.
- Mom has a fear of heights.
- No, no way.
No, she does.
It's impossible to be afraid of heights
in a hot-air balloon. It's impossible.
Didn't you know?
There is scientific proof of this.
You can only experience fear of heights
if there's contact with the ground.
For instance, if you were trying to
climb up a tree or walk up a church tower.
Sure, but not in a hot air balloon.
Your brain is willing to accept
that the bottom of the basket
is the ground under your feet,
so you rise up...
but your brain thinks
you're still on the ground.
Oh, well, it's like you were saying...
for some people being alive is enough.
Here we go!
Whoa!
I'll go.
- What was that?
- I'll go up with you.
Promise?
Yeah, I promise.
- What she say, Kuif?
- Promised.
- She fruffets?
- No, promised.
- She vomits?
- No, she promised.
- She promised!
- Yeah. Bye.
Salut, capitaine.
Fly. Come on! Come on! Fly.
Wow, again.
SKYE BALLOON AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY
TO THE HORIZON
BEST ROOSTER IN THE DISTRICWINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
I'll get that one. Where are we going?
Not many people
are in a relationship with a balloon.
Don't you think you should tell him?
At some point, he's going
to ask questions, you know.
Some things you shouldn't tell
your kids about.
So you'll just keep lying to him?
- He has a father.
- Yeah.
So that's not a lie.
And he's not here. So that's not a lie.
- Yeah, but I don't like it.
- Not now.
- You can't just do that...
- Not... now.
It's still a lie, Gaby.
You can't just keep lying to your kid
like that.
Hey, hey, hey. No, no.
Come on. Stay.
Wait, don't leave. Gaby. Gaby.
Do you have kids?
There you go.
Leave us alone.
You can go and be the perfect father
somewhere else.
Don't. Don't you...
No. No. No!
Arnaud?
Sorry.
Hey, sorry.
- This is not going to work.
- Huh?
- But we can...
- No.
No, it stops here.
You were right.
- One, this stays with you and me.
- Please, don't.
No one else.
- Don't do this. No, please.
- Two, outside this door, we're neighbors.
That's all.
No.
And three...
This means nothing. Huh?
We're going up
in a hot-air balloon!
We're going up in a hot-air balloon!
Hat off.
Kuif, hat off.
You never let me have chocolate
in the morning before.
Well... lucky you.
Huh! My binoculars!
Where'd my binoculars go?
- Kuif?
- Yes!
- How far can I see with this?
- Kuif.
- Wow. It's so close!
- Come and sit down.
My stopwatch!
Come. Come here. Come. Come sit down.
Calm... Calm down. Stop it, Kuif.
Hey, Kuif.
We're not going.
We're not going in the balloon.
But didn't you promise we would.
Yeah, I know I did, but...
- You already promised me we would.
- Yeah.
You promise we would! I hate you!
Say it, Ma.
Terrible mother and daughter.
Right?
Kuif?
Kuif, your bag.
Kuif?
PIE RAAYMAKERS HUSBAND AND FATHER
Never had much in the way of words.
Nothing.
No hello, anything.
I thought he doesn't like me at all...
a dead end.
Then he's at my door the next day
with a dead hare as a gift.
And he never left after that.
Does it help?
The walking, does it help?
Goddamn it.
Great. It was short notice. I know.
Kevin, would you mind telling us
about what happened?
Okay. How about you wait in the hallway?
He reminds me of you daily.
Do you know what we used to say about you?
If she's in a good mood,
she can open the gates to heaven...
But brace yourself
if it doesn't go her way.
Is everything with Mientje
and the chickens?
He's a lovely boy.
Eager to learn, smart.
Energetic.
When it comes to what he destroyed,
I'm willing to overlook it.
And the fact that he kicked Mr. Louie,
well...
I'm pretty sure he can handle that.
But it's the fact he hit a child, Gaby.
- I'll have a word with him.
- I'm sorry, but he needs to be suspended.
Until everything has calmed down.
Okay, let go, please.
Now you can pull from the front first.
Okay, keep going. Come on, Wouter.
Keep pulling. Keep pulling!
Yeah, okay.
Momma! Momma!
Momma! It's Grandma! Come on!
Oh, Mom, hey.
Don't worry about it.
It's just an accident.
Happens to everybody.
It's okay. We'll be quick.
Here. Come on. Oh.
There we go.
There...
Unbuttoning.
There.
Okay, hold on to me.
One, two, three, up!
Yeah. Yes, I've almost got it.
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Okay. There we go. Good.
We had trouble with the car.
Should've taken that hunk of junk
to the scrapyard already.
Huh.
You've always had such great hair.
You remember
how I always wanted to brush it?
What would Papa say...?
Brush that hair.
Brush your hair as hard as you can.
Not one hair will come loose.
He'd always look so proud,
as if it was his own hair.
I know, Momma.
Me, too.
I do, too.
A little bit more every day.
Come on, Mom. Come on.
Okay, hold on to me.
Up-sa.
Yes. There you go.
Okay.
Kuif, I'm lying down a minute okay?
Can you watch Grandma?
You need to tell me
when the water gets cold, okay?
Oh, Momma!
- What's the matter with Grandma?
- Where were you?
- What happened to Grandma?
- You were supposed to watch her.
- But I did watch her.
- I'll pull the plug.
You were supposed to warn me
when the water got cold.
- But it wasn't cold!
- Give me the plunger.
- What happened to grandma, though?
- The plunger, Kuif. Give it to me.
It wasn't cold.
It's really cold where Dad is,
minus 52 degrees up there.
- Don't talk about your father.
- At the North Pole, it gets really cold!
Shut the fuck up about Papa!
- I want to be with Papa!
- Yeah, well, you can't.
- Papa's nicer. I'm going to leave!
- Nice?
Let me tell you how nice your father is!
Your father is a piece of shit who gets
girls pregnant and then disappears.
- Your father has never reached out once!
- No! Papa sends cards to us!
You wish he did!
Kuif! Kuif?
Oh! Oh, Momma! Oh, Momma. Hey, hey, Momma.
- Gaby?
- Yes, here. Here!
Momma, Momma, hey. Come on. Momma, hey.
Come on. Come on.
- Okay, easy.
- Momma, hey, hey.
Hold on to me.
Okay. Hold tight.
- It's okay.
- Yes!
- Momma, hey.
- Yes. I got you.
Come on. Okay.
Momma, Momma, hey, hey.
It's okay. Come on.
Come on.
I wasn't here when it started.
I think she must have put her
in the bath, and after a while...
You're back with us.
How are you feel feeling?
I need to... I should go.
Yeah.
There... There's a group I...
Help. Help. Momma! Momma, help!
Help, Momma!
- Wait!
- No!
Help!
Momma, help!
- Kuif!
- Kuif! We're coming!
Help!
Kuif!
Momma!
- Kuif.
- Momma.
- Kuif.
- Momma!
- Help!
- Kuif!
Help! Help! Help!
Fire!
Everyone, charge!
Fire!
Aha! Ha!
May God's heaven fully witness the noble
proof of my angelic courage on this day!
Help!
Help!
Momma!
Help! Momma!
Oh.
- Momma!
- Kuif.
- Momma, help! Help!
- Kuif.
Kuif!
- Momma!
- Kuif.
Momma, help!
Hold on!
Kuif!
- Hang in there!
- Help, Momma.
Kuif!
Come on!
Mom! Mom!
Hold on! Hold on tight.
- Kuif!
- Kuif!
- Come on!
- Kuif.
- Jump!
- Jump down! Jump!
- We'll catch you!
- I'll catch you!
Come on, Jump!
What if he gets hit by a tractor
or what if a fox gets him?
Oh, no, he won't.
Bouillon found a nice comfy place
in a tree.
And he'll just hang out there until dawn.
Come.
Hey.
You want to know something?
About your real papa?
Is it bad?
Is what, honey?
Is it okay
if you kind of hope that someone...
that someone else could be your dad?
No honey. No, sweetie,
nothing about that is bad.
Hey. It's okay.
Yeah, okay, great!
Very, very good. Okay, very good.
Yes, load it up. Okay, there we go.
There we go. Yeah. Just a little more.
A little bit more.
Okay, stop, stop, stop. Okay, just...
That's it. Stop!
You can set it down. Perfect!
I didn't want to wake you.
What now?
He's leaving.
- Talk to him.
- He can't hear me.
Then tell him louder.
Mom?
But how? I cannot just... I don't...
I can't do it. I just... I don't know how.
You... talk to him.
Okay.
Kuif wants you to stay.
- Just nothing for me here.
- I want you to stay.
I want you to leave, Gaby.
Who is Skye?
Leave me alone. I want you to go.
- Is she your daughter?
- She...
was.
Hey.
No, don't touch me.
- Don't touch me. Please leave me alone.
- I'm not leaving.
- No, no! Let me... Let me go!
- I'm not leaving.
Don't touch me! Get out!
Get out!
Hey.
Whoa.
Oh.
Oh! Oh, no! Oh, God. Oh.
Okay.
Mommy, look. Bouillon!
Yay.
Ha!
- Oh, no. Not another glass.
I can't deal with wine.
- Oh!
- Yay!
- Oh!
- Get ready!
- Wow!
- Dessert!
That's a beautiful dessert.
Say hi.
Hey.
Whoa, whoa, be gentle, okay?
You can touch him, Kuif.
Grr!
Solidarity. You know, for the baby
Oh, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Can you climb up there?
- Yeah. Why not?
Oh, okay.
Cheers. What are we drinking to?
- Cheers to chickens.
- I know!
Yeah, he flew!
To all the chickens.