Showtime: Saturday, January 14 @ 2:00pm
Director: Mona Achache
Country: France, 2009
Language: French with English subtitles
Film Length: 98 minutes
The Hedgehog won the Audience Award at last year's Seattle International Film Festival. An intellectual concierge (who reads Tolstoy to her cat), a precocious 11-year-old (who documents her environment with her father's High-8 camera) and a refined Japanese gentleman are the strange trio at the heart of this sometimes uplifting, sometimes cynical film based on Muriel Barbery's bestselling novel. Making audiences feel clever while also delivering an old-fashioned fairytale of unexpected love (and even a dose of social critique), Mona Achache's helming debut unashamedly has it all ways. The result is a basically touching, engaging parable about the importance of unconventionality. Performances are strong, with Josiane Balasko in particular suggesting a wealth of simmering emotion beneath her impassive features. —Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Being shown with film short, Flawed
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