"A film that leaves you love to read the book but not the desire to see the film. "
Massi So yesterday evening at the Hare told me his impressions on The hedgehog , the film that I decided to see tonight. First, I admit, not I read the book, the novel Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery , literary event of 2006 best seller, more than 50 printings and 600,000 copies sold.
But I'm curious to read it: the film is truly touching the lives of the protagonists so intricate and I liked the feeling of tenderness that I felt for them.
But first things first.
Renee (Josiane Balasko) works as a concierge and perfectly embodies the stereotype: it is fat, sloppy and surly, but the building of luxury condominiums Rue Grenelle in Paris, where he works are completely unaware that their door has a soul, cultured and refined, loves the cinema, is interested in philosophy, Japanese culture and loves the great classics of literature like Tolstoy and Kafka.
elegant building, inhabited by wealthy families, lives a girl whose history is interwoven with that of kidney, the twelve year old Paloma (The Garance Guillermic) forever with your camera in tow, Paloma filming the world surrounds, mostly the stories of adults who are around her, determined not to become like them, or like fish in a bowl, so that organizes every detail in his suicide, to be the day of his birthday. The paranoia of this girl I was deeply disquieted: it is too sensitive, too deep to bear to live in mediocrity as everyone knows.
to upset the customs of Renée and Paloma will be the arrival of a new tenant in the building: the Japanese Kakuro, a man as mysterious and fascinating.
Kakuro approaches Paloma and Renée because interested, curious about these characters so complex. Will he be able to "unlock" the concierge, get it out of his skin so rough and give it a new light. Paloma instead understand, with the help the new neighbor, a little more about life and the importance thereof.
It seems that the author of the novel was not happy about the success of the film, I read it completely!
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