Renard et l'enfant, Le (2007)

Director:

Luc Jacquet

Writers:

Luc Jacquet (writer)
Eric Rognard (scenario)

Release Date:

12 December 2007 (Belgium)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Family

Plot:

It has been described as both a nature doc and "fairy tale" look at the story of young girl and her friendship with a fox. |

Cast

Bertille Noël-Bruneau	...	L'enfant
Isabelle Carré	...	Narrator / L'enfant adulte
Thomas Laliberté	...	Le petit garçon

Also Known As:

The Fox & the Child (International: English title)

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Finland:K-7 | Germany:o.Al. | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

France

Company:

Bonne Pioche

Trivia:

Luc Jacquet asked from Tatiana Vialle (casting supervisor) "anything but a redhead" for the child's role. He changed his mind when he saw Bertille Noël-Bruneau.

Beauty

The very first image of the movie shows a mountain ridge in early morning autumn mist, and my thought was: "This is almost too beautiful." And it goes on like this: Images of landscape and animals that look like a series of romantic paintings, each of them perfect in every detail. Even the girl's room, her father's car - everything is nostalgic, romantic, beautiful. This could seem outdated and escapistic, but it fits a story that is itself of silent beauty, happening on the border between life and fairy tale, between Dian Fossey and Le Petit Prince. I enjoyed every minute of it. The extreme parsimony of the movie, having a simple, slow story, just one actor and hardly any special effects, exerted a strong magic. I therefore find it deplorable that this parsimony is given up in the last minutes, when suddenly two additional actors (the girl as a grown-up woman, and her son) are introduced. Another shortcoming is the music, which is often intrusive, Hollywood-like, and sometimes inappropriate: I couldn't bring an English pop-song together with French mountain glory. I went to the movie together with my two small daughters, but I recommend it to adults as well, given that they appreciate this kind of movie. Obviously, not everybody does.