Le Hérisson
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- Original title
- Le Hérisson
- Year
- 2009
- Running time
- 95 min.
- Country
France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Mona Achache. Novel: Muriel Barbery
- Cast
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- Josiane Balasko
- Garance Le Guillermic
- Togo Igawa
- Anne Brochet
- Ariane Ascaride
- Wladimir Yordanoff
- Sarah Lepicard
- Jean-Luc Porraz
- Gisèle Casadesus
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production France-Italy;
- Genre
- Drama. Comedy | Friendship. Comedy-Drama
- Synopsis
- This is the story of an unexpected encounter among some of the dwellers at number 2 of the Rue Eugène Manuel in Paris: Paloma Josse, an eleven-year-old hugely clever girl who has a secret plan; Madame Michel, the discreet and lonely caretaker who hides an intelligent and cultivated personality under her uneducated and unfriendly appearance; and the enigmatic Monsieur Kakuro Ozu, a Japanese man who has moved into the house...
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- Awards
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2009: Seminci - Valladolid: Best Music (ex-aquo)
- Critics' reviews
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"It's a sophisticated story in the best sense of the word: complex and layered, observant and warmly humane. But it is edged with melancholy and infused with drama."
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"Le Guillermic is fine in this calm comedy of subverted exteriors and expectations, but it's the remarkably unpretentious -- earthy, even -- Balasko who anchors Achache's adaptation."
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"Lacking any depth of its own, this upper-middlebrow French drama resorts to the old trick of referencing acknowledged masters."
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"A satisfying emotional experience."
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"A reminder that, sometimes, the movies can get a beloved book exactly right"
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"This a movie with such a light, stylish touch, it makes no claims to profundity and is a sweetly hopeful experience."
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"A movie that's smart, grown-up, wry and deeply moving"
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 76 My Top 10 Movies from 2009 (40)
- 89 My Favorite French Movies (41)
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