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The Hedgehog
The movie revolves around Paloma, an 11-year-old girl quietly and unhappily living in a luxurious Paris apartment with her family. She plans on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday, but things change when she meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy concierge and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
14 June 1914, Paris, France
10 October 1954, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
26 August 1968, Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
1953, Condat, Gironde, France
26 September 1946, Tokyo, Japan
15 April 1950, Paris, France
22 November 1966, Amiens, Somme, France
May 15, 2013
11-year-old Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) is rich, precocious and extremely judgmental in the way that only a privileged child can be.
October 07, 2011
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.
September 02, 2011
"The Hedgehog" is a treat: a movie that's smart, grown-up, wry and deeply moving.
October 01, 2011
Balasko's performance is the highlight, as she breathes believable inner life into the stock character of the lonely, embittered widow.
March 30, 2016
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.
October 07, 2011
... it's Josiane Balasko that makes it work.
September 22, 2011
A satisfying emotional experience.
October 27, 2011
A French drama that finds its power in the little moments.
September 01, 2011
Enchantment will go a long way toward overcoming implausibility, but there's not enough of the former here - and far too much of the latter.
September 08, 2011
A reminder that, sometimes, the movies can get a beloved book exactly right.
October 07, 2011
"The Hedgehog" sneaks up on you with its heartfelt storytelling and sophisticated wit.
September 08, 2011
This a movie with such a light, stylish touch, it makes no claims to profundity and is a sweetly hopeful experience.