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The Hedgehog is a french film of genre Drama directed by Mona Achache released in USA on 19 august 2011 with Josiane Balasko
The Hedgehog (2009)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 19 august 2011
Length 1h40
Directed by Mona Achache
OriginFrance
Themes Films about suicide
Rating72%
The Hedgehog (Le Hérisson) is a French film directed by Mona Achache, loosely based on the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Made in 2008, the film was released in theatres in 2009.
Synopsis
Paloma is an 11-year-old girl quietly and unhappily living in a luxurious Paris apartment with her family. She is intelligent and observant and, in sensing disappointment and despair in adulthood, decides to end her life before she reaches it, on her next birthday, 165 days from where the story begins. Her dad's old camera in hand, she records telling moments in the lives of the inadequate humans around her: her antidepressant-dependent mother; her moody sister; petulant dinner guests. As Paloma prepares to finish her days, it is Mrs. Michel, the gruff-looking, reclusive concierge, who manages the building where Paloma and her family live. She hides her passion for literature from her bourgeois employers but is found out by the new resident, Mr. Ozu, widowed and Japanese, as a beautiful bibliophile in elegant disguise. A fiercely tender attraction grows between the three like-minds, showing Paloma a more lovely side of life than she originally thought possible and forcing her to reconsider her plan of suicide.Actors
Josiane Balasko
(Renée Michel)
Garance Le Guillermic
(Paloma Josse)
Togo Igawa
(Kakuro Ozu)
Ariane Ascaride
(Manuela Lopez)
Anne Brochet
(Solange Josse)
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