The Fox and the Child is a 2007 French/British film directed by Luc Jacquet. Starring Bertille Noël-Bruneau, Isabelle Carré and Thomas Laliberté. The English version of the film is narrated by Kate Winslet. A young girl of about 10 years lives in a farm house in the Jurassic mountains in eastern France. One day in autumn, when she walks to school through the forest, she observes a hunting fox. Of course, the fox escapes, but the girl yearns to meet the animal again. She spends most of her free time in the forests trying to find the fox during the following months, but she... doesn't meet the fox again until winter comes. During the winter, she follows the fox's tracks far across the fields. Suddenly she compares her hand to the size of the tracks near to those she is following and discovers they are relatively fresh wolf tracks; she is alarmed as a wolf pack begins howling near her. She runs away panicked, falls and hurts her ankle. The ankle heals very slowly, so that she has to stay at home during the winter reading a book about animals of the forest and foxes. When spring arrives, the girl is looking for fox holes and waits for a fox.
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| Release date: | 2007 |
| Directed by: | Luc Jacquet |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Producer: | Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou |
| Screenplay by: | Luc Jacquet |
| Estimated budget: | $13,000,000 |