Paris-based sales company will also bring Directors’ Fortnight opener The Goldman Case to the market.
Paris-based Charades has boarded a slew of starry Cannes titles including Mona Achache’s just-announced Special Screening film Little Girl Blue starring Marion Cotillard and Directors’ Fortnight opener The Goldman Case.
The company is also selling Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds premiering in Un Certain Regard, Katell Quillévéré’s Along Came Love set for a Cannes Premiere screening and Chicken For Linda! selected for parallel section Acid, plus will unveil first images from new acquisition Sébastien Vanicek’s Vermin.
Little Girl Blue is inspired by the life of Achache’s mother.
Paris-based Charades has boarded a slew of starry Cannes titles including Mona Achache’s just-announced Special Screening film Little Girl Blue starring Marion Cotillard and Directors’ Fortnight opener The Goldman Case.
The company is also selling Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds premiering in Un Certain Regard, Katell Quillévéré’s Along Came Love set for a Cannes Premiere screening and Chicken For Linda! selected for parallel section Acid, plus will unveil first images from new acquisition Sébastien Vanicek’s Vermin.
Little Girl Blue is inspired by the life of Achache’s mother.
- 4/25/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Girls Just Wanna Have: Achache’s Breezy Sophomore Feature
After adapting Muriel Barbery’s celebrated novel The Hedgehog for her 2009 debut, director Mona Achache returns with her latest feature, Gazelles, based on the successful one woman show “Camille Attaque” of its star Camille Chamoux. Fans of her fantastic first outing may be a bit disappointed by the slightness of her latest, which feels akin to English language female buddy comedies, but happens to be a bit more refreshing due to its realistic female characters. Given its familiar scenario, Achache and Chamoux manage an energetic rendition of heterosexual female thirtysomethings finding empowerment as they overcome the building ennui of pre-mid-life crises brought on by refusing to accept standards they’ve had no say in creating. But even with its frank, sexual embrace in tow, there is a constant itchy niggle shadowing every scene because that fact of the matter is, we...
After adapting Muriel Barbery’s celebrated novel The Hedgehog for her 2009 debut, director Mona Achache returns with her latest feature, Gazelles, based on the successful one woman show “Camille Attaque” of its star Camille Chamoux. Fans of her fantastic first outing may be a bit disappointed by the slightness of her latest, which feels akin to English language female buddy comedies, but happens to be a bit more refreshing due to its realistic female characters. Given its familiar scenario, Achache and Chamoux manage an energetic rendition of heterosexual female thirtysomethings finding empowerment as they overcome the building ennui of pre-mid-life crises brought on by refusing to accept standards they’ve had no say in creating. But even with its frank, sexual embrace in tow, there is a constant itchy niggle shadowing every scene because that fact of the matter is, we...
- 2/3/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 12, 2012
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: Neoclassic Films
Movies with heart always have a place on our shelves, and The Hedgehog has plenty.
The foreign film tells the coming-of-age story of gifted 11-year-old Palmona (Garance Le Guillemic). As her next birthday looms closer, she wonders what’s the point in growing if all the adults are hypocrits. She starts recording them with her dad’s old camcorder and begins to learn about life from her building’s stuffy janitor (Josiane Balasko, French Twist). When Paloma discovers that the usually gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, an unlikely friendship emerges, and Paloma starts to not worry so much about growing up.
Based on the worldwide best-selling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, the drama movie is the first film written and directed by Mona Achache, who we expect to see more from in the future.
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: Neoclassic Films
Movies with heart always have a place on our shelves, and The Hedgehog has plenty.
The foreign film tells the coming-of-age story of gifted 11-year-old Palmona (Garance Le Guillemic). As her next birthday looms closer, she wonders what’s the point in growing if all the adults are hypocrits. She starts recording them with her dad’s old camcorder and begins to learn about life from her building’s stuffy janitor (Josiane Balasko, French Twist). When Paloma discovers that the usually gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, an unlikely friendship emerges, and Paloma starts to not worry so much about growing up.
Based on the worldwide best-selling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, the drama movie is the first film written and directed by Mona Achache, who we expect to see more from in the future.
- 5/25/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 12, 2012
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: NeoClassics Films
Josiane Balasko ponders Tolstoy as she lounges with her cat in The Hedgehog.
Josiane Balasko (French Twist) and young Garance Le Guillemic star in the acclaimed 2009 French drama film The Hedgehog, based on Muriel Barbery‘s international best-selling novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Adapted for the screen and directed by first-time feature helmer Mona Achache, The Hedgehog tells the coming-of-age story of Paloma (Le Guillemic), a gifted young girl bent ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father’s old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from her stuffy building concierge, Renée (Balasko ). When Paloma’s camera reveals an extensive secret library in Renée’s back room, and that the usually gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies...
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: NeoClassics Films
Josiane Balasko ponders Tolstoy as she lounges with her cat in The Hedgehog.
Josiane Balasko (French Twist) and young Garance Le Guillemic star in the acclaimed 2009 French drama film The Hedgehog, based on Muriel Barbery‘s international best-selling novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Adapted for the screen and directed by first-time feature helmer Mona Achache, The Hedgehog tells the coming-of-age story of Paloma (Le Guillemic), a gifted young girl bent ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father’s old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from her stuffy building concierge, Renée (Balasko ). When Paloma’s camera reveals an extensive secret library in Renée’s back room, and that the usually gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies...
- 5/24/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Eye Of The Storm Trailer I like this kind of story, I do. It's familiar territory, to be sure, but if there's someone who I...
- 9/9/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Based on a bestselling novel by the Moroccan-born French novelist Muriel Barbery, Mona Achache's debut as writer-director looks at a hypocritical adult world through the eyes of the lonely, precocious 11-year-old Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic). She's making a testamentary documentary about her haut-bourgeois family whom she despises and about the neighbours in their smart Parisian apartment block, as she plans to commit suicide on her 12th birthday. It's a brisk, touching comedy with a deliberately shocking climax and attractive performances from Josiane Balasko and Togo Igawa as the two people who change Paloma's understanding of life. The former is a self-taught concierge, who deliberately conceals her great intelligence and sensitivity to literature and the arts, the latter a kindly Japanese businessman, happily named Ozu, who appreciates the concierge's worth.
ComedyPhilip French
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- 9/3/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Title: The Hedgehog Director: Mona Achache Starring: Garance Le Guillermic, Josiane Balasko, Togo Igawa Somewhere, no doubt, adult film actor and shameless publicity whore Ron Jeremy is kicking himself over finding out that there exists a movie entitled “The Hedgehog” in which he is not the star, or the beneficiary of a large life-rights check. No, director Mona Achache’s movie is no hairy skin-flick biopic, but instead a darkly comedic broadside aimed at stuffy French elitism, a movie very loosely of a sort with “Gosford Park” and the forthcoming “The Women on the 6th Floor,” written and directed by Philippe Le Guay. Based on Muriel Barbery’s 2006 French-language novel “The Elegance...
- 8/31/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Everett Josiane Balasko in “The Hedgehog”
To play the part of Renée Michel, actress Josiane Balasko shaved her eyebrows off and wore a nappy wig. She was restricted to the palette of brown, black and grey, and never really smiled. But as Balasko sat casually smoking on the roof deck of a midtown building in New York, she was chuckling, her red lips constantly breaking into a smile.
Balasko formed one part of the two-character “fable” that is the film,...
To play the part of Renée Michel, actress Josiane Balasko shaved her eyebrows off and wore a nappy wig. She was restricted to the palette of brown, black and grey, and never really smiled. But as Balasko sat casually smoking on the roof deck of a midtown building in New York, she was chuckling, her red lips constantly breaking into a smile.
Balasko formed one part of the two-character “fable” that is the film,...
- 8/19/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
NeoClassics Films
At the ripe, old age of nearly twelve, Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) has decided that life is futile, and riddled with ridiculous hypocrisy, and she's decided to opt out. What's moving, telling, and ultimately brilliant about her decision is that her plan to kill herself on her next birthday is perhaps one of the most thought out, and well-reasoned decisions she has run across.
The daughter of wealthy parents - a father who, very "averagely," spends so much time on work, that he has little left to spend with his family, and a mother who talks to her plants more than anyone else, has quite the cocktail of "therapy helpers," and is the purpose behind creating the phrase, "flitting about the house" - Paloma can find little about life that makes an argument for meaningful connection... with anything.
Wise miles beyond her years, Paloma has decided to make...
At the ripe, old age of nearly twelve, Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) has decided that life is futile, and riddled with ridiculous hypocrisy, and she's decided to opt out. What's moving, telling, and ultimately brilliant about her decision is that her plan to kill herself on her next birthday is perhaps one of the most thought out, and well-reasoned decisions she has run across.
The daughter of wealthy parents - a father who, very "averagely," spends so much time on work, that he has little left to spend with his family, and a mother who talks to her plants more than anyone else, has quite the cocktail of "therapy helpers," and is the purpose behind creating the phrase, "flitting about the house" - Paloma can find little about life that makes an argument for meaningful connection... with anything.
Wise miles beyond her years, Paloma has decided to make...
- 7/28/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Chicago – In our special French film festival edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago showing of the film “The Hedgehog” at the closing night of the Music Box Theatre’s Chicago French Film Festival! “The Hedgehog” star Josiane Balasko will be at this showing in person!
The film’s original title is “Le hérisson”. “The Hedgehog” stars Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff, Sarah Lepicard, Jean-Luc Porraz and Gisèle Casadesus from writer and director Mona Achache based on the novel by Muriel Barbery.
To win your free pass to the closing-night Chicago showing of “The Hedgehog” at the Chicago French Film Festival courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This showing is on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Directions to enter this...
The film’s original title is “Le hérisson”. “The Hedgehog” stars Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff, Sarah Lepicard, Jean-Luc Porraz and Gisèle Casadesus from writer and director Mona Achache based on the novel by Muriel Barbery.
To win your free pass to the closing-night Chicago showing of “The Hedgehog” at the Chicago French Film Festival courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This showing is on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Directions to enter this...
- 7/21/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – For the first time, a foreign film festival in Chicago will focus solely on the latest and greatest works from France. On July 22nd, the Music Box Theatre will kick off its three-day inaugural festival of French cinema, featuring eight pictures that have recently garnered praise from audiences and festival goers around the globe. It may prove to be just the ticket for movie buffs bored with summer blockbusters and outdated superheroes.
Bookending this year’s festival are appearances by two major figures in the French film industry. Director/co-writer Jean-Pierre Améris will be present for the opening night screening of his neurotic comedy, “Romantics Anonymous,” starring Benoît Poelvoorde (“Man Bites Dog”) and Isabelle Carré (“Private Fears in Public Places”). The picture was a surprise hit in France, thus rekindling interest in Améris’s acclaimed body of work (his 2004 drama “Lightweight” was screened at Cannes).
One of the country’s most respected veteran actresses,...
Bookending this year’s festival are appearances by two major figures in the French film industry. Director/co-writer Jean-Pierre Améris will be present for the opening night screening of his neurotic comedy, “Romantics Anonymous,” starring Benoît Poelvoorde (“Man Bites Dog”) and Isabelle Carré (“Private Fears in Public Places”). The picture was a surprise hit in France, thus rekindling interest in Améris’s acclaimed body of work (his 2004 drama “Lightweight” was screened at Cannes).
One of the country’s most respected veteran actresses,...
- 7/20/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: The Hedgehog (Le Herisson) Directed By: Mona Achache Written By: Mona Achache, from Muriel Barbery’s novel “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” Cast: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 6/28/11 Opens: August 19, 2011 Things are seldom what they seem. An eleven-year-old girl, one would figure, would be watching Disney cartoons, checking out her email on a BlackBerry, and giggling with friends over boys in her class. A janitor who mops the floors of a building but probably would not know how to fix a leaky sink would hardly be expected to curl up with Tolstoy. Yet both of these...
- 6/30/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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