Le renard et l'enfant (2007)

Director:

Luc Jacquet

Writers:

Luc Jacquet
Eric Rognard (scenario)

Release Date:

29 February 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Family

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Fox | Nature | Plaster Cast | Minimal Dialogue | Book

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Bertille Noël-Bruneau	...	L'enfant
Isabelle Carré	...	Narrator / L'enfant adulte
Thomas Laliberté	...	Le petit garçon
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ambra Angiolini	...	Narrator (voice)
Camille Lambert	...	Judie
Kate Winslet	...	Narrator (voice: English version)

Directed by
Luc Jacquet

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Luc Jacquet
Eric Rognard		scenario

Produced by
Yves Darondeau	....	producer
Kali Ligertwood	....	coordinating producer
Christophe Lioud	....	producer
Laurence Picollec	....	executive producer
Emmanuel Priou	....	producer

Original Music by
Evgueni Galperine
Alice Lewis
David Reyes

Cinematography by
Eric Dumage
Gérard Simon

Film Editing by
Sabine Emiliani

Casting by
Tatiana Vialle

Production Design by
Marc Thiébault

Makeup Department
Marie-Anne Hum	....	key makeup artist
Simon Maggie	....	makeup artist
Diane Mahmoudi	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Jean-Christophe Barret	....	post-production supervisor
Benjamin Dewaele	....	assistant unit manager
Nicolas Le Parlouer	....	assistant production manager
Thomas Pflimlin	....	unit manager
Pascal Roussel	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Martin Blum	....	second assistant director
Maia Etcheverry	....	first assistant director
Vincent Steiger	....	assistant director

Art Department
Emmanuel Marais	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Jean-Baptiste Benoit	....	sound
Germain Boulay	....	supervising sound editor
Gérard Lamps	....	sound re-recording mixer
Armelle Mahé	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jan Petrov	....	adr recordist
Laurent Quaglio	....	supervising sound editor
Adrien Roch	....	sound
Soazic Veillon	....	dialogue editor
Jean-Marie Viollet	....	sound mixer trainee

Visual Effects by
Béatrice Bauwens	....	visual effects coordinator
Lucie Bories	....	digital compositor
Loïc Caer	....	digital effects
Bastien Chauvet	....	digital compositor: Mikros
Cédric Fayolle	....	visual effects supervisor
Amélie Guyot	....	matchmover
Thomas Larocca	....	digital compositor
Sabine Lineres	....	digital compositor
Peregrine McCafferty	....	matchmove artist
Hugues Namur	....	visual effects supervisor
Jean-René Nébot	....	digital color timer
Alexandre Rouil	....	3D matte painter
Julien Rousseau	....	digital compositor

Camera and Electrical Department
Nouredyne Amroun	....	assistant camera
Cyril Barbancon	....	camera operator
Sylvain Bardoux	....	key grip
Lucas Bernard	....	assistant camera
Olivier Bertrand	....	assistant camera
Vincent Blasco	....	key grip
Jérôme Bouvier	....	camera operator
Simon Bérard	....	gaffer
Marc Caro	....	still photographer
Thomas Caselli	....	second assistant camera (as Thomas Casselli)
Pascal Chantier	....	still photographer
Pierre Chevrin	....	first assistant camera
Patrick Chizallet	....	grip
Jean-Marie Delorme	....	assistant camera
Hans Krumenacker	....	electrician
Damien Lecoq	....	additional electrician
Loïc Limosin	....	electrician
Alexandre Léglise	....	second assistant camera
Jérôme Maison	....	camera operator
Pierre Mazard	....	additional camera operator
Patrick Rebatel	....	gaffer
Patrick Renault	....	electrician
Pierre Stetin	....	assistant camera
Emmanuel Théry	....	additional gaffer
Benjamin Vial	....	grip
Stéphane Zajac	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera

Editorial Department
Jean-René Nébot	....	digital color timer
Karine Prido	....	assistant editor
Soazic Veillon	....	assistant editor
Emmanuelle Zelez	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Vladislav Boyadjiev	....	music technical supervisor
Amélie de Chassey	....	music supervisor
Hervé Jamet	....	orchestrator
Thomas Jamois	....	music consultant
Asen Kanchev	....	music production manager
Alice Lewis	....	musician
Ronan Maillard	....	orchestrator
Delphine Mathieu	....	music supervisor
Deyan Pavlov	....	conductor
David Reyes	....	musician
David Reyes	....	orchestrator

Other crew
Maia Etcheverry	....	acting coach
Nicholas Frank	....	delivery consultant
Allison Mella Strina	....	business & legal affairs (as Allison J. Mella)

Production Companies

• Bonne Pioche
• France 3 Cinéma
• Wild Bunch (in association with)
• Canal+ (with the participation of)
• Conseil General de l'Ain (with the support of)

Distributors

• Wild Bunch (2007) (worldwide) (all media) (international sales)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• CP Classics (2008) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Cinema Mondo (2008) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Comstock Group (2009) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Festive Films (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Frenetic Films (2007-2008) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Golden Village Entertainment (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Kinowelt Filmverleih (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Pathé Distribution (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
• Picturehouse Entertainment (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• Shochiku Company (2009) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2007) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East)
• New Line Home Video (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Odeon (2008) (Greece) (all media)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Seville Pictures (2009) (Canada) (DVD)

Other Companies

• SIF309 Film & Music Productions  film score recording
• Soundtrack  ADR Facility

Also Known As:

"The Fox and the Child" - Australia, Canada (English title) (DVD box title)
"The Fox & the Child" - International (English title)
"A Raposa e a Criança" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"A róka és a gyerek" - Hungary
"Arkadasim tilki" - Turkey (Turkish title)
"Der Fuchs und das Mädchen" - Germany
"Flickan och räven" - Sweden
"La niña y el zorrito" - Mexico
"La volpe e la bambina" - Italy
"Le renard et l'enfant" - Canada (French title) (DVD box title)
"Pigen og ræven" - Denmark
"Rebane ja laps" - Estonia
"To paidi kai i alepou" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"Tyttö ja kettu" - Finland

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Germany:o.Al. | Finland:K-7 | Ireland:G | Hong Kong:I | Singapore:G | Sweden:Btl | USA:G | Mexico:A | Australia:G | Portugal:M/6

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.

A beautiful nature film

I first saw this movie in a theater in France a year or so ago. It came and went with little fanfare, but I enjoyed it for the beauty of the landscape photography and the fascinating wildlife footage. (The story, while nice, is really incidental. If you actually thought about it, there is no way most of what happens could happen in real life.) I just saw it again tonight, here in the States, on DVD. Again, I gather it has very limited distribution. Blockbusters only had one copy of it, and I don't recall it ever playing in the art houses in Cleveland.

Seen on my TV, the photography is not as breathtaking, though it is still very beautiful. The wildlife footage is still fascinating. The story of the relationship between the 10-year old child and the fox is even less convincing the second time around, when you know where it's headed.

Still, as I said, the story is incidental. It's a beautiful film to watch, and if you like wildlife footage, you should find this fascinating.