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The Hedgehog

France, 2009


A film adaptation to the praised novel by Muriel Barbery. A captivating drama about a surprising encounter in a Parisian building: eleven year old Paloma is an outsider that never leaves her video camera and secretly dreams of putting an end to her life on her twelfth birthday. Until then she constantly documents and scorns everyone around her – the bourgeois life of her rich family in Paris, her father the minister, her mother who is addicted to psychological therapy, and her stupid student sister. Renée, the discreet concierge, and Kakuro, the new Japanese tenant, are the only ones she can connect with. The three create a special and delicate relationship between the three floors of the building, and they each find a way to soften a bit the spines that surround them. 

Fiction  | Video  |  100   Minutes  |  Color  |  French, Hebrew subtitles

Director: Mona Achache
Screenplay: Mona Achache
Cast: Josiane Balasko, Togo Igawa
Cinematography: Patric Blossier
Editing: Julia Gregori
Production: Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Mark Lombardo
Source: Orlando Films

9/11, 21:45
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The Hedgehog,  Mona Achache