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THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG

By Mona ACACHE

Drama - Completed 2008

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
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Director(s)
- Mona ACACHE
- Writer(s)
- Jean-Francois GOYET, Mona ACACHE, Patrick BLOISSIER
- Cast
- Garance LE GUILLERMIC, Josiane BALASKO
- Producer(s)
- Anne-Dominique TOUSSAINT
- Synopsis
- 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.