Celiné Sciamma s charming film, "Petit Maman," is carefully set in early fall, a particularly enigmatic period of time where everything is in transition between summer joy and winter solemnity. We meet 8-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) as she s bidding adieu to the women in the nursing home in which her grandmother has just passed away. Along with her grieving mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse), and lackadaisical father (Stéphane Varupenne), the young girl goes to her grandmother s house, where her mother grew up, in order to clear it out for the last time.
“Petite Maman,” the French film by Céline Sciamma, arrives at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, May 13. The superstitious vibes of that day are transmuted by this magical story. It’s part fairytale and part ghost story, as only film can persuade the viewer of their realism. Sciamma, an accomplished screenwriter and director, most recently […]
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