After his extraordinary and extraordinarily successful documentary The March of the Penguins, Luc Jacquet returns with a somewhat more simple tale of a girl's friendship with a fox.

Young actress Bertille Noel-Bruneau plays a nature-loving schoolgirl who spots a fox in the verdant mountains of France. Determined to befriend it, she makes several gestures to win over its confidence. But as the two become friends, the girl makes the tragic mistake of trying to domesticate it...

Inspired by director Luc's own experience of growing up in the region, The Fox and the Child boasts splendid images of Europe's flora and fauna. One can't help but admire the glorious vistas that bespeak of nature's majesty. But the story itself is somewhat corny and unsurprising, with occasional twists that can only be called "strange".

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