Neon Nabs Celine Sciamma s French Drama Petite Maman After Berlin Debut
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Neon has acquired North American rights to Céline Sciamma’s latest feature, “Petite Maman,” following its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
The sale reunites Sciamma with Neon, the New York-based independent studio that released her acclaimed drama “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.”
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Written and directed by Sciamma, “Petite Maman” follows 8-year-old Nelly, who loses her beloved grandmother and goes to help her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mom, Marion, used to play and build the treehouse she’s heard so much about. One day, her mother abruptly leaves. That’s when Nelly meets a girl her own age in the woods building a treehouse. Her name is Marion.
Petite Maman Review: An 8-Year-Old Makes a Special Connection, and So Will Audiences Petite Maman Review: An 8-Year-Old Makes a Special Connection, and So Will Audiences Tomboy director Céline Sciamma returns to the realm of childhood, this time with the aid of a device that brings generations together.
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“Give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man,” proposed Aristotle, to which fiercely feminist French director Céline Sciamma might add, “Give me a woman, and I will show you the free, unbroken spirit she still was at age 8.”
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