[THE HEDGEHOG opens in Cleveland on Friday September 30th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) is a smart, talented eleven year old girl who plans to kill herself the day after she turns 12. She finds this preferable to what she describes as the “life in a fishbowl” existence of her bourgeois parents, an existence she believes she is predestined to follow in. But for now, with 165 days left to go before making what she sees as a romantic escape from existence, Paloma documents her family with a video camera so that those left behind will know why she did what she did. Sure, it seems like pretty extreme measures to take, but such drama is not unusual among adolescents.
