The Elegance of the Hedgehog

A family of four members of Congress live in a high-end apartment on the Left Bank of Paris. The congressman's youngest daughter Baroma (Garance Le Guillermic) is quirky and likes to see the world through a camera. She is a genius little philosopher under the age of 12. Not wanting to become a doomed goldfish in a fish tank, Paloma plans to commit suicide on her birthday. The apartment concierge Honey (played by Josiane Balasko) is a fat and ugly 54-year-old widow. She carefully maintained the vulgar image of the concierge and built a rich spiritual world for herself in the secret room. However, Baroma vaguely discovered the secret, and the newly moved Japanese gentleman Ozu Gerō (played by Ikawa Togo) was also aware of Honey's unknown side. Under Ozu's polite guidance, not only Honey gradually shed her humble disguise, but Paloma also began to re-examine life and death. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by French female writer Miriam Barbery.