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Petite Maman review – Céline Sciamma's spellbinding ghost story


Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 12.02 EST
Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale reverie is occasioned by the dual mysteries of memory and the future: simple, elegant and very moving. I fell instantly under its spell, and found myself thinking of classic English tales such as Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce, or The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. And there is an extra-textual pleasure in wondering exactly what its child stars thought about it during filming – and what they think about it now.
Joséphine Sanz plays Nelly, the eight-year-old daughter of Marion (Nina Meurisse). The latter is under enormous stress. Marion’s mother has just died in a care home, from long-term complications of a hereditary bone disorder, which Marion herself had to avoid with a painful operation when she was about Nelly’s age. Young Nelly artlessly asks her mum if she can keep her grandmother’s cane, and Marion blankly agrees. Then Marion and her partner (S ....

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When Your House Obsession Becomes A Kid's Book: The Children of Green Knowe


Young Toseland Oldknow Tolly, please, if you must give him a nickname, not Towser, or worse,
Toto (I am trying to look past the implied insult to Oz here, everyone) is off to live with his great-grandmother in a very old house that to him feels very far away. He is both scared and slightly hopeful: since the death of his mother, his only real family is a distant father and a well meaning but generally clueless stepmother, so a great-grandmother feels like
something. She might even be real family.
Spoiler: she is. What Tolly didn’t expect and couldn’t expect were the ghosts. Or, if you prefer, ....

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