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Based on Muriel Barbery’s novel, writer/director Mona Achache’s debut has a modern-day fairytale feel. Ignored by her rich parents, precocious 11-year-old Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) decides to end it all on her 12th birthday. But she’s drawn into the lives of the secretly bookish concierge (Josiane Balasko, the metaphorical hedgehog …

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