Additional information for The Fox and the Child (Renard et l'enfant, Le), which has a domestic theatrical release set for August 8, 2008. The film is being distributed by Picturehouse and has not yet been rated. The Fox and the Child (Renard et l'enfant, Le) has a total running time of 92 minutes.
7
Switzerland
o.Al.
Germany
K-7
Finland
G
Ireland
I
Hong Kong
G
Singapore
Btl
Sweden
G
USA
A
Mexico
G
Australia
M/6
Portugal
92min
The Fox and the Child
Australia
The Fox and the Child
Canada
A Raposa e a Criança
Portugal
A róka és a gyerek
Hungary
Arkadasim tilki
Turkey
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
Pigen og ræven
Denmark
Rebane ja laps
Estonia
The Fox & the Child
International
To paidi kai i alepou
Greece
Tyttö ja kettu
Finland
November 28, 2007
France
December 12, 2007
Belgium
December 12, 2007
France
December 27, 2007
Germany
December 28, 2007
Latvia
February 08, 2008
Finland
February 14, 2008
Netherlands
February 29, 2008
USA
March 07, 2008
Norway
March 21, 2008
Italy
April 03, 2008
Hungary
April 04, 2008
Turkey
April 17, 2008
Greece
May 09, 2008
Estonia
May 16, 2008
Poland
August 07, 2008
Hong Kong
August 08, 2008
Ireland
August 08, 2008
UK
September 04, 2008
Russia
September 11, 2008
Singapore
September 26, 2008
Denmark
October 17, 2008
Sweden
October 31, 2008
Denmark
November 07, 2008
Spain
January 10, 2009
Japan
January 16, 2009
Iceland
April 17, 2009
Romania
July 09, 2009
Australia
August 21, 2009
Mexico
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A young girl of about 10 years lives in a solitary peasant's house on the edge of the jurassic mountains in the East of France. One day in autumn, when she is on her way to school through the forest, she observes a hunting fox. Of course, the fox flees from her, but the girl feels a strong desire to meet the fox again.During the following months, she spends most of her free time in the forests, exploring the nature, observing many different animals, but above all searching for the fox. Yet, she never sees the fox again before winter comes. During the winter, already knowing how to distinguish the tracks various animals leave in the snow, she follows fox's traces far across the fields, through woods and thickets. Still, she does not find the fox, but instead, she is terrified by the howling of wolves close by. In panic, she tries to run home, but seriously hurts her ankle during her flight.The film does not explain how she manages to get back home at all; maybe, she manages to walk despite her injury, maybe her parents miss her, search for her and carry her back. In any case, the healing of her injured leg takes all the rest of the winter. She cannot leave the house any more, but spends lots of time reading books about the wild animals of the woods, above all about foxes.During springtime, the girl resumes her roaming in the woods. She already knows how to identify fox's kennels. Finding many of them, she finds some empty, some blocked by people who consider foxes harmful animals that should be hunted down and killed. But she also finds a kennel that's obviously inhabited. Sitting down behind the bushes some dozens of meters away from the kennel, she patiently waits for the fox to come out or to come home. But the fox, having cast its young, is particularly shy and wary, not showing itself when the girl is near. In fact, it is so disquieted that it starts removing its young to a different hole in order to hide them from the spying human. By chance, just when the fox carries one of its young out of the kennel, the girl returns and sees it leaving.The girl understands that the fox is extremely frightened, so she decides not to try to find the new hiding. On the other hand, she guesses that the new hole must be close, so she watches the scene from a larger distance: From the branches of an old beech near the edge of the forest. And indeed, after many fruitless and uneventful watches, the fox finally shows itself.During the following weeks, the girl is gradually taming the fox: At first, the intervals at which the girl sees the fox decrease, but the fox is always staying far away from the girl and flees as soon as they become aware of each other. When the girl starts to put pieces of bacon in a line leading to her tree, the fox starts coming closer. After many weeks, the fox still flees from the girl, but allows her to follow at a distance: They start roaming the fields and woods together in this peculiar manner. The girl, from her perspective, gets the impression that the fox is showing her around the forest - in any case, she comes to know many new places and things in the forest that she wasn't aware of before.Again, many weeks pass before the fox starts taking meat from the girl's hand and still longer before it allows her to touch it, but finally, the fox enjoys being fondled like a dog. It even leads the girl to its kennel where she meets the young foxes, too.During the summer, while following the fox, the girl lives through many adventures: jumping across a mountain creek in a deep and narrow ravine, nearly getting lost in a karst cave, passing a night in the forest, utterly scared by the sounds of the night in the forest and by several pairs of eyes glowing at her out of the dark, protecting one of the young foxes from a hunting bird of prey, meating a brown bear, finally saving her fox from a hunting pride of wolves, scaring the wolves away by jumping and shouting on the top of her voice.After all these adventures and after becoming accustomed to the fox behaving as a tame animal, the girl starts playing children's role games while the fox is around: giving the fox a name, talking to it, imagining a house in the middle of the wood, lighting a fire "on the hearth", treating the fox as "her dog", giving it a necklace and a leash. Finally, she leads the fox to the house where she lives, and even though it is very frightened, it follows her up the stairs into her chamber. She tries to play with "her" fox as people would at times play with a dog: for example, hiding under the bed and the table and chasing each other around the room, nearly starting a tussle on the floor. But it turns out the the fox cannot stand the closed room: It starts jumping along the walls and across the furniture trying to escape, throwing toys off the shelves, breaking dishes and vases, getting more and more agitated, finally jumping in panic out through the closed window, breaking the glass. The girl finds it in the court, covered with blood and having lost conscience.Strangely enough, even though the girl is obviously used to keeping pets and farm animals, the thought of searching help from a veterinarian doesn't occur to her. Perhaps she has still kept the fox as a secret she didn't tell even her parents about; perhaps the next veterinarian is living so far away that she has no hope to carry the fox that far; perhaps she thinks that no man would tend a fox, often having seen hunters catching, shooting, even poisoning foxes. Anyway, she carries the fox back to its kennel, rather mourning for it than tending it, not even removing the necklace before the young foxes start tearing at the cloth. In fact, it's rather the young foxes tending their mother, licking its wounds.The girl is deeply shocked and ashamed and utterly helpless. When she sees that the fox still lives, not knowing whether it will indeed survive, she finally walks away. During the following days, she often returns to the places where the two liked to meet, but never again she approaches the kennel. The girl feels that her friendship with the fox can never again be exactly as it was before. In a way, she has betrayed their friendship. All the same, that autumn and during part of the winter, the two sometimes meet in the wild, the girl now treating the fox with tender but restrained respect. During the winter, the girl loses track of the fox, never seing it again.A decade later, she explains to her young son the lesson she learnt from that episode: True friendship between human and animal is extremely difficult to attain because the human will inevitably be tempted to domesticate the animal, changing its character and life, longing to own it instead of just watching, liking and meeting it. After the horrible scene in her chamber, the girl decided that the wild animal must always be free to decide what it wants and what it doesn't want to do: "I promised to the fox that it must always be her to choose the game, that never again i would try to force any game upon her - because i could never know whether she would like it."
Luc Jacquet
Director(s)
Luc Jacquet
Eric Rognard
Writer(s)
Yves Darondeau
producer
Kali Ligertwood
coordinating producer
Christophe Lioud
producer
Laurence Picollec
executive producer
Emmanuel Priou
producer
Producer(s)
Evgueni Galperine
Alice Lewis
David Reyes
Composer(s)
L'enfant
Bertille Noël-Bruneau
Narrator / L'enfant adulte
Isabelle Carré
Le petit garçon
Thomas Laliberté
Narrator (voice)
Ambra Angiolini
Judie
Camille Lambert
Narrator (voice: English version)
Kate Winslet
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.
Director(s)
Eric Rognard
Writer(s)
producer
Kali Ligertwood
coordinating producer
Christophe Lioud
producer
Laurence Picollec
executive producer
Emmanuel Priou
producer
Producer(s)
Alice Lewis
David Reyes
Composer(s)
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