With her latest film Céline Sciamma revisits a theme which has preoccupied much of her work – moments of childhood transition. But while, like “Water Lilies”, “Tomboy” and her screenplay for “My Life As A Courgette”, “Petite Maman” is told through the eyes of its child protagonist, there is a minor key harmonic to the storytelling – the tacit presence of an adult perspective acknowledging the intensely felt distance which can arise in the relationship between a daughter and her mother.
There’s a fairytale quality to this story of a little girl who, following the death of her grandmother, meets another girl in the woods. Like its dappled forested backdrop, the film is a thing of pensive beauty rather than volatile drama.
Wendy Ide, Screen International
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With her latest film Céline Sciamma revisits a theme which has preoccupied much of her work – moments of childhood transition. But while, like “Water Lilies”, “Tomboy” and her screenplay for “My Life As A Courgette”, “Petite Maman” is told through the eyes of its child protagonist, there is a minor key harmonic to the storytelling – the tacit presence of an adult perspective acknowledging the intensely felt distance which can arise in the relationship between a daughter and her mother.
There’s a fairytale quality to this story of a little girl who, following the death of her grandmother, meets another girl in the woods. Like its dappled forested backdrop, the film is a thing of pensive beauty rather than volatile drama.
Wendy Ide, Screen International
There’s a fairytale quality to this story of a little girl who, following the death of her grandmother, meets another girl in the woods. Like its dappled forested backdrop, the film is a thing of pensive beauty rather than volatile drama.
Wendy Ide, Screen International
Info
Rating
(none)
Production year
2021
Global distributor
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Local distributor
Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ
In cinema
11/22/2021