Film info

• Title The Fox and the Child
• Director Luc Jacquet
• Year 2007
• Run time 1hr 27m
• Genres Family, Adventure
• Tagline Le renard et l'enfant

Two worlds, which seem separated by everything, meet through an unforgettable story of friendship as a young girl and a fox form an unlikely bond and a wonderful adventure begins. Narrated by Kate Winslet this visually stunning film for the whole family will mesmerise young and old.

Live Blog

| 2:03 | That is very pretty. Is this a bit like Heidi only with a fox instead of a grumpy old man? | | 3:10 | She has to cycle up a mountain to school? | | 4:21 | Why does it jump up and down like that? Perhaps it thinks it’s a kangaroo! | | 5:19 | She sees a fox once and decides to tame it! How could she know that she’d ever see it again? | | 6:44 | What is that? A smoking mushroom? | | 7:50 | This child is just allowed to go wandering around on the mountain by herself. It seems unusual. | | 9:39 | Singing would scare the fox off, I think. | | 14:36 | That is some proper dramatic music like in an action film. Interesting. | | 16:09 | It’s quite an obsession she’s got for only having seen the fox once. | | 18:24 | She has a nice round window. It’s a bit like the hobbits. | | 22:26 | It’s hard to launch a Save the Fox campaign when you are ten years old and stuck inside with a broken leg. | | 27:30 | Two months indoors. Sounds most excellent. | | 28:12 | The fox doesn’t know he is a fox, so he won’t answer to the name ‘fox’ will he? | | 29:42 | That is one determined little girl. | | 31:37 | “Why wasn’t I more careful?” Peering down the hole and shouting ‘fox’ isn’t careful? | | 34:42 | It’s not funny to watch a fox bullying a hedgehog. | | 40:49 | A bear! So many films have bears in. | | 44:12 | She’s quite sneaky that girl, trying to track the fox like that. | | 45:33 | Will she go over the cliff and the fox have to run for help like Lassie? | | 46:17 | Nope. | | 48:25 | Uh, so many frogs. I’d be worried I was going to stand on one. | | 51:18 | I like that cave, it’s like raining but indoors. | | 52:37 | Gross! Don’t go around drinking water from caves! | | 54:39 | Don’t her parents wonder where she is all the time? | | 59:52 | She stayed out all night! | | 1:02:39 | Good lord, if she keeps following the fox like that, they’ll end up in another country. | | 1:05:08 | How does she ever find her way back home again? | | 1:07:20 | She’s completely crazy. | | 1:11:22 | She is single-handedly keeping that fox family alive. | | 1:15:27 | She just needs some friends really. | | 1:20:55 | Considering she memorised a whole book on foxes, she doesn’t really seem to understand them. | | 1:24:57 | “I’d confused possession for love.” |

Thoughts

I hadn’t intended to watch this, it’s not really my thing at all, but I fancied watching something that was not very intensive on the mind, and had some stunning views. I was not to be disappointed!

Very beautiful film. Nice and slow-paced, with plenty of time to appreciate all the nature going around. About halfway through the over-dubbing started to annoy me, and the child kept doing stupid things to intervene in the foxes life, but even so, it was still quite fascinating.

Rating: 3 / 5