![]() Even so, the location is beautiful and well-photographed and some moments are well directed. And yet it suffers more than most with its limitations - it has no pace, and the acting varies from scene to scene. This is an independent film, and I like independent films. All accompanied by the strains of a mournful piano. In among the grubby soap-opera-level squabbles, the creature is revealed as a family curse, in a series of flashbacks spread throughout. Suddenly, there's a bit of gore and the tantalising idea of people suffering other peoples' pain when having their teeth hammered out. Things improve slightly when the Tooth Fairy turns up, all distorted voice and Halloween mask. It's difficult to think of a worse start to a film. Father Rueben (Will Dodd) looks even younger, resplendent with a few grey flecks of hair and growling for all he's worth to convince us of his 'advanced' years. Jen (Claudine-Helene Aumord) is visited by her resentful daughter Carla (Claire-Maria Fox), who looks exactly the same age. The first few scenes made me think the production was a spoof, so incredible were the casting choices. Margo says “Life is never boring and I learn something new every day… and there are always surprises”.It's difficult to know what to make of this. Margo Lestz lives in Nice, France where she likes to bask in the sunshine, study the French language and blog as thecuriousrambler. SUBSCRIBE - When 12-year-old Pamela goes on vacation with her family to a bed and breakfast, the girl who lives next door tells her the 'true story' of t. But still, I much prefer the thought of that delicate little pink fairy flitting around my room and reaching under my pillow to the idea of a little mouse running around in my bed… No matter how nice they say she is. In any case, La Petite Souris is apparently in much better humour these days and of course, since the French children are all good and well-behaved, she wouldn’t do any of these awful things to them. But she wasn’t in mouse form – she was invisible at the time. Well, one time she did cause the king to lose four teeth when she pushed him out of a tree. The “good little mouse” in this story causes a lot of havoc in the bed, but she doesn’t take any teeth and she doesn’t leave any money. Then of course, she does the same to the Prince. When everyone is called to the princely chamber to search for her, she goes back to the king and into his mouth where she chews on his tongue, cheeks and lips. There is more screaming and mouse searching while the “good little mouse” is nibbling on the princely nose. Then back to the once-again-sleeping king to bite his nose. In the meantime the “good little mouse” goes to the room of the equally evil prince and does the same thing to him. ![]() He screams in pain and calls everyone in the castle to search for the mouse. She’s actually a fairy who turns herself into a mouse at night and creeps up into the evil king’s bed. But the way she goes about it is anything but nice. I suppose in one sense you could say that the “good little mouse” is good – she does help the people get rid of a very evil king. I’m pretty sure that the French parents, who tell their children about the nice little mouse who will crawl into their bed at night and take their tooth, have not read this story. It seems the legend of the tooth mouse is based on a 17th century French fairy tale by Madame d’Aulnoy, called La Bonne Petite Souris or “The Good Little Mouse”. That’s right, French parents allow a mouse to crawl into their child’s bed, wiggle its way under the pillow, and take the tooth! Am I ever glad I lost my baby teeth in the United States! The French Tooth Mouse ![]() There is no Tooth Fairy in France I was told, so do French children still get paid to lose their baby teeth? Yes, they do! When les enfants lose a dent du lait (milk tooth), they put it under their pillow at night but instead of a fairy sneaking into their room at night to take the tooth and leave a coin it’s La Petite Souris, known in English as “The Little Mouse”. In its place she would leave me a shiny coin. ![]() While I was sleeping, a cute little fairy in a pink tutu with a twinkling magic wand would fly onto my bed, gently lift the pillow where I slept and ever so delicately take the tooth. When I was a child and I lost a tooth, I would put it under my pillow at night. Have you ever wondered if there is a tooth fairy in France? Well Margo Lestz, our intrepid reporter who lives in Nice in the south of France has, and she was surprised to discover that in France the tooth fairy is a mouse! ![]()
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