Surprisingly atmospheric and at the same time naturalistic, philosophical and instructive film. I would recommend it for family viewing with children of all ages. My children are from 3 to 9, and they all understand their own, find interesting moments.
For me, there were many advantages in the story about a girl and a fox:
* Amazing views. Forest, mountains, cave - all this is impressive and immerses in the natural world.
Dynamic filming of animals - beyond praise! It can be used in biology classes, no less!
* Lack of words - all the remarks are brief and on the point. And this further immerses in the world of animals, does not distract from the contemplation of nature.
* Storylines in the story are firmly kept at the screen, you do not want to be distracted.
* The presence of an instructive conclusion is an absolute plus in favor of the film in my eyes.
This is one of my favorites this year.
If the fox was not killed by his parents, he tortures his daughter.
The film should be bribing with beautiful filming of nature and animals. But it is better to watch documentaries. Here all this is flavored with a boring unrealistic plot, which makes viewing painful.
Some people find it touching, but it was unpleasant to watch a girl recklessly interfere in the life of a wild fox, endangering the fox, her children, and herself risking her life. At the end they tried to sum up philosophical thought, but somehow it is too late.
The Soviet cartoon "Living toy" stretched for an hour and a half.
The film “The Girl and the Fox” by the French director Luc Jacquet is an amazing story about the friendship of people with animals. The film is for those who want to plunge into childhood. Very kind.
It's a first-person narrative. The heroine of the film tells the story to her young son about her adventure since childhood. And the adventure is the story of her friendship with a wild beast, with a fox. Somewhere it seems that it is unreal, he is still wild. You still do. After all, who as a child did not want to see a beast in the woods, make friends with him; of course, there was no doubt that he was dangerous, because you believe that you are special, and you will become friends, and you will understand them. The film is about this childhood dream.
It was very interesting to travel with a girl and a fox through the forest, get acquainted with its inhabitants, learn the lifestyle of foxes, their habits, what their favorite places are. The film also contains exciting moments.
The moral of the film is that loving and possessing are different things. It is possible to tame a wild beast, but with the condition of giving it complete freedom. This is the only way to get your love and loyalty.
The film is very useful for both children and adults. So ...
A very sad story of the relationship between a girl and a fox. A girl once saw a fox and wanted to tame it. The girl looked for a fox for a long time, went to the same tree, waited for her. One day the fox stopped being afraid and came up. Thus began the friendship of a girl and a fox. Lisa trusted the girl. And the girl just wanted to tame the fox. At the end of the film, the girl “dropped her mask” and put a leash on the fox. Lisa got scared, ran away, but then came back to the girl. And the girl never gave up the idea of tame the fox. As a result, the fox almost died, fleeing from unfreedom. And so ended the friendship of the girl and the fox.
This story is reminiscent of the story of first love: timid, tender touches; the complete trust of one (her or his) and simply the desire to possess another (her or his). What is love and the desire to possess?
A beautiful movie about nature, about children, about animals. Drama. But this is not for children, rather for people over 17 years old.
7 out of 10
Friendship cannot be possessed (a comma in discretion)
French cinema is famous not only for its crazy and hilarious comedies, but also for films about nature and animals, both documentary and fiction. Among the non-player can be distinguished by the creations of Jacques Perrin (Birds, Oceans) and Janne Arthus-Bertrand (House). The history of travel, Planet-Ocean), and among the artistic - "Bear" and "Two Brothers" by Jean-Jacques Anno, "Pelican" by Olivier Orlet and "Girl and Fox" Oscar-winning (for "Birds 2: Journey to the End of the World") documentary filmmaker Luc Jacquet, for whom this work became a director's debit in a feature film.
The film tells about the unusual friendship between a fox and a ten-year-old Lulu, who lives in a farmhouse lost somewhere in Eastern France amid virgin forests and majestic mountains. Their history began in autumn and lasted until the end of summer, thereby passing a full cycle along with the seasons.
First meeting
It happened on a beautiful autumn day when Lulu was returning from school. A friendly sun shone, birds chirped, a light breeze wandered, endowing everyone with its caress, trees dressed in golden robes whispered: the forest breathed life. Lulu saw a hunting fox and decided to come closer, but he was scared and rushed in the Rapid. The little girl was impressed by this event, and she began to look for a new friend.
Search and trouble
Autumn passed, but the meeting never took place again. The main character persistently engaged in the search, and the fox diligently hid from her. Winter came: the trees dropped golden mantles and wrapped in a white plaid, the ground was covered with a crispy silver carpet, and the natural polyphonicity gave way to lulling silence. For both heroes, this period was not very successful. Lulu broke her leg, pretending to be a tracker, and spent the rest of the winter at home, while the fox was constantly endangered by larger predators.
The long-awaited discovery and birth of friendship
Winter passed the baton to spring, thanks to which a new life came: nature played with all sorts of colors, animals got out of their shelters, flowers bloomed, trees dressed up in emerald shirts, Lulu recovered, and the fox had offspring (he turned out to be a female). At this time, the main character finally found the elusive red cunning and literally saved her from the machinations of hunters who filled the foxes with branches and stones. This is how their friendship was born.
Full friendship and separation
Summer came into its own, becoming the most significant and longest time of the year in the picture. During this period, the girl and the fox were already friends, constantly walking, basking in the sun, enjoying each day, in general, the souls in each other did not want. But once Lulu made a fatal mistake.
Luke Jacquet managed to create a beautiful film, where the main trump cards are the technical and visual components. Artists Marc Thibault and Pascal Arru picked up a wonderful location with magnificent nature, and the operators Eric Dumadge and Gerard Simon masterfully conveyed all its beauty through general plans that create the impression that you admire the landscape wallpaper for the desktop, close-ups of animals, of which there are a lot in the picture, ranging from insects and ending with a bear, static, dynamic and panoramic shooting with a dizzying camera flight, demonstrating the immensity of the surrounding world and the insignificence of a person against it. Composers, in turn, filled the visual series with various melodies that reflected the mood of the picture at one time or another: xylophones, tambourines and wind instruments created a light, playful atmosphere, and string and keyboards - tense and dramatic.
Thanks to such productive interaction of the crew members, a simple and somewhat schematic story turned into a fairy tale in which Bertil Noel-Bruno, who played Lula, organically existed. Curiously, the little actress herself is very similar to a fox, due to red curls, freckled face and a look with a cunning. Apparently, the director chose this type, wanting to hint that a person is a child of nature with an animal essence, because it is not for nothing that the main character is in the forest more often than at home, and her name is translated as a wolf. In fact, the girl is left to herself: she has no friends among people, and “ghost” parents do not pay due attention. And they are “ghost” because throughout the film they never appear in the frame, only voices are heard in the distance.
Consequently, “The Girl and the Fox” boasts not only a “beautiful wrapper”, but also a semantic filling. However, the above-mentioned idea is a side idea, because the director laid the basis of banal (from the point of view of an adult), but important and easily accessible to children's perception of the idea that it is impossible to completely tame the predator and that one should not confuse friendship with possession.
The Girl and the Fox is a stunning, French film that takes us into an amazing story of incredible friendship. In this film, we see a red-haired girl. She lives with her parents in a house near the forest and walks every day in its picturesque places. Once a girl meets a fox, and this wild animal charms her, and she dreams of making friends with him. Every day the girl looks for this fox and watches him. We see the incredible, wild life of a fox, which turned out to be a fox and its children.
The film is very beautiful, colorful and interesting. The shooting was great and I was impressed. I was shocked by the shooting of a fox when the Lynx ran after him, it was very spectacular and disturbing. All this amazingly beautiful story takes place in very beautiful and picturesque places that fascinate and amaze with their purity and beauty. The film is simply wonderful, and it will be to the liking of both a child audience and an adult. I enjoyed watching this movie and highly recommend it.
It is important to distinguish between love and possession.
There is such a category of films around which there is no hype or even advertising, they are just somewhere there and that’s all. And, you know, the further I go, the more often I look not at another new hire, not at some cool blockbuster, but at something more modest that will not be shown on TV and will not be rolled on the big screens. Among these seemingly unappealing and all forgotten films are diamonds. That’s the kind of diamond I think is the movie The Girl and the Fox. This is a low-budget French movie in 2007, in which the entire cast consists of five people, and the voice-over is Kate Winslet, but it is absolutely irrelevant.
Since I love Fox so much, I was interested in watching this movie. Separately, I would like to note the absolutely stunning camera work: absolutely incredible beauty of forest landscapes, many forest inhabitants in their natural environment with their habits and features. Very beautifully shown scenes of chasing a lynx for a fox, fox marriage games, caring for a fox and their babies and others. Very rarely, where you can see nature so, almost virgin and untouched, where wildlife lives by its own laws, almost without outside interference.
Before us unfolds a touching and funny story of the relationship of a little girl and the fire-red beauty of the forest Fox. Against the background of the friendship of a fox and a girl, the topic of the relationship between man and wildlife is revealed. This story teaches the viewer a huge difference between such concepts as love (friendship) and possession; teaches how important it is to respect and protect the identity of wildlife, not to disturb its balance and harmony by trying to tame it, tame it.
Of course, the plot is simple and simple, even a few naive stars from the sky are missing, but in some minutes I was so breathtaking, so strongly I empathized with the characters that not every Oscar-winning film is capable of it. It seems to me that sometimes we all very much lack this, childishly naive simplicity, because it is in it that real beauty lies.
“The Girl and the Fox” is a very good, kind and sweet film, without unnecessary nonsense and pathos. It's a good family movie that I'm sure I'll show my kids someday. If you’re tired of the silly entertainment stuff, watch this movie and the like. It is worth remembering at least sometimes how beautiful nature is and what interesting creatures the world is filled with, besides people.
Surprisingly beautiful, but sometimes stupid movie. However, first, as usual, you pay attention to the wrapper, not to the filling. The wrapper is fabulous. I’ve watched a lot of wildlife movies, but this one will stand out.
What a forest! Wonderful forest. What a fox! Wonderful fox. What a girl... It’s not always a beautiful girl, but... A girl who confuses friendship and love with possession and power. A girl who may realize her mistakes when a friend's life is in danger
It is obvious that Luke Jacquet, forcing his little heroine to make sometimes simply unforgivable mistakes in relation to his girlfriend-fox, emphasizes one simple idea: a person has distanced himself from nature, he has long since come down from the trees and has done everything to stop understanding nature and accept its uniqueness and its isolation; a person can observe the wild world, but should not interfere in it, because he does not understand a damn thing in natural harmony, in the balance of this complex mechanism.
I do not know how many percent of computer graphics there are, how many live pictures - I will leave this question to professionals, and I will say from myself that this fabulous beauty is so captivating that I do not want to think about technical aspects at all.
Of course, this is more of a children's film, which would not be bad to show your offspring for educational purposes, in order to grow them sensitive and understanding the problems of not only human society, but our smaller brothers.
I’ll close my eyes to some implausibility (let’s pretend that these are just fabulous moments), the stupidity of the girl and refrain from wanting to cut the assessment much.
7 out of 10
Infinitely kind, warm and pleasant film. Nothing superfluous - Girl and Fox - the title speaks for itself and very accurately describes the film. A big bow to all the filmmakers for being able to so uniquely shoot animals and for the most beautiful panoramas.
Man and nature are two very close, but at the same time different worlds. We live and are in constant contact with each other. The film shows how you can live in peace with nature, find a common language with her, enjoy what surrounds you, just be “here and now”.
We must be in contact with nature and treat it with care, understand it. We should not make our own adjustments, try to change something, fix everything in our own way, we should not tame nature and adjust it to ourselves, we should just enjoy it. Love, but not invade.
The fox loves the girl, and the girl loves the fox, they are happy together, they understand each other and do not need anything else - let everything be so simple.