What was the reasoning from directing March of the Penguins to making The Fox and the Child?
Luc Jacquet: It’s always difficult to understand why you need to make one particular film; what’s for sure is that The Fox and the Child I had written before March of the Penguins. I hadn’t been able to produce it for various reasons but it existed before. Moreover, it’s also the fruit of my travels to Antarctica, because I went there again and realised that you don’t need to travel far, far away to marvel at things. You can be astonished by things that happen right behind your house – really close to you. The adventure is not a question of distance it’s a question of curiosity. LF: Did you want to make the fox to be identifiable with humans or did you want to maintain a line between man and nature? LJ: It was very important for me to not humanise the fox, to not make it a person. I really wanted the fox to be a genuine authentic fox, so that as soon as the confrontation between the girl and fox happened it was marked by the fact that it was a man and an animal. The path that the littl
