Completed - FRENCH - Drama
Suicidal 11 year old Paloma, learns the meaning of life when she forms an unlikely friendship with Renee, the porter in her rich parents’ apartment block, and her enigmatic, Japanese neighbour, Mr Ozu.
Year of production : 2008 Director(s) : Mona ACACHE Writer(s) : Jean-Francois GOYET, Mona ACACHE, Patrick BLOISSIER Cast : Garance LE GUILLERMIC, Josiane BALASKO Producer(s) : Anne-Dominique TOUSSAINT
PALOMA My name’s Paloma. I live in Paris. My parents are rich and so my sister and I are virtually rich. But in spite of all this luck and all this wealth, for a long time now I’ve known that the final destination is the goldfish bowl: where adults, like flies, spend their lives running into the same piece of glass. RENÉE I’m a widow. I am short, chubby, have bunions on my feet and, if the evidence of certain unpleasant mornings is anything to go by, the breath of a mammoth. I live alone with a fat, lazy tomcat. I’ve never studied, I’ve always been poor, discreet and insignificant. Since I’m rarely amiable, although always polite, people don’t like me, but they tolerate me because I correspond perfectly to the archetype of the janitor. THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG is the story of an unexpected encounter, that of Paloma Josse, an exceptionally intelligent and suicidal 11-year old girl, of Renée Michel, a discrete and solitary Parisian porter, and of the enigmatic Mr. Kakuro Ozu.
Country(ies) : FRANCE
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