Synopsis
The Fox and the Child (Le Renard et l'Enfant, 2007) is a French family film directed by Luc Jacquet — the filmmaker behind March of the Penguins — and is available to watch online on iFILM. Running 88 minutes, it follows one girl's year-long friendship with a wild fox through the forests of eastern France, narrated by Isabelle Carré.
On an autumn morning, a girl of about ten spots a fox along a woodland path. The fox runs. But it comes back. Over the seasons — through snow, spring mud, and summer heat — the two keep finding each other in the same stretch of trees. The girl learns to move quietly, to notice burrows and birds and the smell of the earth after rain. Something close to trust grows between them, slowly and without guarantees.
Jacquet shot real animals in real landscapes, the way only a documentary director thinks to do, and it shows. The forest feels genuinely alive rather than staged. There is a bittersweet truth at the end that most children's films would soften; this one doesn't. Stream The Fox and the Child (2007) online on iFILM.
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