Picturehouse Buys Next Project From 'March of the Penguins' Team
Filed under: Documentary, Foreign Language, Family Films
Picturehouse has acquired the U.S. rights to The Fox & the Child, the first narrative film from the team that created The March of the Penguins. If you're one of two people not familiar with that movie, it was last year's surprise smash, winner of the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award, and even spawned a full-length spoof. Since The Fox is also being listed on imdb as Le Renard et l'enfant, I'm betting this will be a French film (I'm excellent with languages). The Fox and the Child is currently in production, with Penguins director Luc Jacquet both writing and directing.
Variety reports that the film is based on Jacquet's own childhood experiences. Seeing that the film tells the story of a little girl who goes into the woods and winds up entering a different dimension by following in a fox's footsteps, I'd say Jacquet had a much more exciting childhood than I did! The story sounds very Chronic - what?- cles of Narnia to me, hopefully these guys will put a new spin on things. Jacquet has his work cut out for him -- the switch from documentary to narrative filmmaking is one that several doc makers haven't made that smoothly. See Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon. Actually...don't. No word on casting for The Fox, but let me just suggest either Jamie, Matthew, or Michael J.
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3-13-2007 @ 12:01PM
marty said...
Oh God! Please, please no more doco's on animals. I know we are trying to find a cure for insomnia but not in cinemas. If I want to watch animal doco's I would switch on the Discovery channel. I want to see a story with human characters not the mating ritual of penguins or foxes!
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3-13-2007 @ 12:18PM
Jeanette said...
That must have been SOME childhood experience if he was a girl...
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3-14-2007 @ 1:25PM
John J said...
Pat,
You like way too many movies to rip Canadian Bacon like that. What makes you hate this movie so much?
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