The Hedgehog

Le hérisson

Italy, France

2009

100 Min

Color

2.35:1

Japanese, French

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Mona Achache, Muriel Barbery

CAST Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff, Sarah Lepicard, Jean-Luc Porraz, Gisèle Casadesus, Mona Heftre

Renée Michel is not the uncultivated concierge that she pretends to be, but a fifty-something woman with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a passion for great works of literature. Paloma is not the sweet innocent girl that she appears to be, but a 12-year old who has become so disgusted by the adults around her that she has decided to kill herself. The fortunes of these two solitary and sensitive females are changed forever when a strange Japanese man, Kakuro Ozu, enters their lives… —filmsdefrance

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14Dec11

The book is infinitely better

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Matthew_Lucas

14Oct11

This eccentric drama about a depressed 11 year old girl who films her entire life and plans to kill herself on her 12th birthday tries a bit to hard to go into AMELIE territory as she touches the lives of all who meet her, but it has a certain charm about it, even if it feels a bit overly calculated.