Following up her universally acclaimed
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma was able to get a film off the ground and completed during the pandemic
. Petite Maman, starring Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Stéphane Varupenne, Nina Meurisse, and Margo Abascal, follows a young girl who has just lost her grandmother, then discovers a girl her own age in the woods. Following a Berlinale premiere, the film will arrive in France next month and the first international trailer has landed. NEON will also reteam with the director for a U.S. release, but a date hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Stéphane Varupenne, and
Margot Abascal. This just premiered a few months ago at the Berlin Film Festival, and it s opening in France this June, though there s still no US opening set yet. This is an adorable little film about mothers and daughters and their connection, and the references to this being a Studio Ghibli film are spot on. It really has that vibe.
Here s the first French trailer (+ poster) for Céline Sciamma s
Petite Maman, direct from YouTube:
Synopsis via Berlinale: 8-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mum, Marion, used to play and where she built the treehouse Nelly has heard so much about. One day her mother suddenly leaves. That s when Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a treehouse. Her name is Marion… Once again, Sciamma examines the big questions in life from a resolutely female perspective
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Berlinale unsurprisingly had to shift to an online-only model for its early March incarnation in 2021; one that was only open to industry professionals and buyers, plus journalists reporting on the premieres. (The organisers are planning to host a later in-person repeat of the programme in the summer so that the public can experience the films on the big screen, vaccine rollout permitting).
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Regulars at the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) in recent years are used to a number of sights and sensations: the sinister cold shrouding the ultra-touristic Potsdamer Platz where the fest is held; an eclectic ensemble of journalists and critics pressed against one another waiting for shots of coffee; food trucks hawking expensive snacks for guileless guests and the incessant search for comfortable seating in bustling cinemas. That’s all in addition to the affable atmosphere of Berlin itself - the new European capital of art.