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The film, which has just premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who has just lost her grandmother and is attempting to navigate the confusing emotional terrain of family grief
Celine Sciamma s new film, Petite Maman premiered at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival
In her new film, the French director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire tells a time-travel tale of an eight-year-old girl who meets her own mother as a child.
Petite Maman, Céline Sciamma s follow-up to her 2019 international breakthrough
The acclaimed French filmmaker has switched the erotic charge and sexual politics of her 18th century period drama for a more personal story of love and loss in a tale of an eight-year-old girl trying to connect with her mother.
But there s a twist:
Petite Maman, which premiered this week in competition at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, is a time-travel story. Eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out the childhood home of her mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse). While exploring the surrounding woods, she meets a girl her own age named Marion (Gabrielle Sanz) who, sh
A beautiful and mysterious excursion into child s play.
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Céline Sciamma follows her international art-house breakthrough, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with this study of an 8-year-old girl who finds a unique path to better understanding her mother in the wake of loss.
There s a gorgeous scene early in
Petite Maman that epitomizes the unfussy economy and emotional perceptiveness of Céline Sciamma s films. Watching intently from the back seat of the family car as her mother climbs in, stifling tears, and they head off to begin packing up the home of the maternal grandmother who has recently died, the film s 8-year-old protagonist asks permission to break out the snacks. Seldom taking her eyes off her mother in the rear vision mirror, the girl snarfs down a few cheese crisps before the frame closes in on her parent at the wheel.