2009 · comedy · drama · supernatural
The Hedgehog
Directed by Mona Achache1h 40m2009
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
Our read: The Hedgehog (2009) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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“You want prickly Parisian souls finding beauty beneath precocious despair.”
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