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While planning her suicide, a precocious 11-year-old (Garance Le Guillermic) befriends a new neighbor (Togo Igawa) and a prickly recluse (Josiane Balasko).

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The Hedgehog | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Chicago Reader Lacking any depth of its own, this upper-middlebrow French drama resorts to the old trick of referencing acknowledged masters. Feb 6, 2018 Full Review The Hedgehog | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Oct 8, 2011 Full Review The Hedgehog | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle 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. Rated: 3/5 Oct 7, 2011 Full Review The Hedgehog | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Mattie Lucas From the Front Row Walks a fine line between sentimentality and cynicism, and emerges as a lovely and modern fable. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 6, 2019 Full Review The Hedgehog | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Examiner [Garance] Le Guillermic is irresistible, making a character that could come off as a haughty brat utterly delightful. Rated: 3/4 Jan 8, 2019 Full Review The Hedgehog | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Dennis Harvey SF360 Nicely crafted, The Hedgehog seldom aims to be more than a pleasant low-key diversion-at which it succeeds-so it's jolting when the story pulls an abrupt late turn that casts everything in a more serious, ambitious light. Mar 30, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A nice movie of people who, although less socially gifted than the people they are surrounded by, are often more self-aware and unwilling to pretend, however, these people are majority and our main characters feel isolated as a result, so they find some comfort in each other's understanding of each other, making a point by showing how this connecting reaches no matter the superficial differences between them, such as age, social status or cultural upbringing, a film about love. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Very Elegant and subtle!Very french in spirit! Empathic and intelligent. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Gently builds, very nicely paced, never frantic. A potentially hideously precocious child is fantastically played without once becoming so. Quite probably a modern classic. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A film of great charm and warmth, telling a tale slowly and gently, a big story on a very small stage. There is a biting social criticism behind the story, about the superficiality of rich people and their inability to see the dignity, indeed the lives, of those who are 'less' or different, but it is played deftly, by actors who do the job rather than say they are doing the job and direction which respects intelligence. Would=be child actors (and their parents) might learn much from the girl in this film, her vivacity, her projection of intelligence by being intelligent rather than just acting smart. There is also a cross cultural element. I will say no more, other than that if you are not warmed and made thoughtful; by it, I'll give you at best one star :-) Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Pleasant and warm and just a tiny bit eccentric. Filled with lovely little details that made me smile. Great music. Cinematography is lovely. The acting is wonderful. But that ending though... sigh... Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Poignant, funny, moving French film. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Mona Achache Director Josiane Balasko Renée Michel Togo Igawa Kakuro Ozu Garance Le Guillermic Paloma Josse Anne Brochet Solange Josse Ariane Ascaride Manuela Lopez

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Synopsis While planning her suicide, a precocious 11-year-old (Garance Le Guillermic) befriends a new neighbor (Togo Igawa) and a prickly recluse (Josiane Balasko).

Director
Mona Achache

Producer
Anne-Dominique Toussaint

Screenwriter
Mona Achache

Distributor
Neoclassic Films

Production Co
Les Films des Tournelles, Pathé

Genre
Comedy, Drama

Original Language
Canadian French

Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 19, 2011, Limited

Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 10, 2015

Runtime
1h 40m
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