Petite Maman

A tender movie where the child's perspective on relationships, loss and world in general is utterly touching. It doesn't follow conventions, it's narration is very autonomous and independent.

A gentle & immensely moving film with imaginative elements of magical realism which will stay with me probably forever. An eight year old girl who felt unable to say farewell to her fatally ill grandmother comes to a better understanding of her own mother‘s grief & depression. Revealing how all this comes about would spoil the subtle impact which she experiences when visiting her grandmother‘s & her mother’s own childhood home. There in the woods she meets a girl her own age with the same name as her mother & the ensuing revelations are magical indeed. The two young actresses are twins in real life & their interaction is beautiful to behold. A wonderful, unique & emotionally involving film experience quite unlike any other that I have seen in recent years. Reviewed by Peter Graham

I feel the movie would've become richer if script were to include adult Marion's inner turmoil, nevertheless a wonderful, delicate movie.

Enchanting.i had to watch it twice because I missed clues the first time around,

Saw it since it was on the SnS22 list. This one had its moments, but overall I was left wondering what the point was. It was an interesting reflection on grief, but it also had minimal dialogue and never took on much complexity. SLC library DVD.

Derivatively experienced wonder on one hand while an evaluated ode to childhood memories in mostly unemotional gestures as bland significance, but the other being the artistic redeeming quality in form of engaging ponder is seeing how simplistic the narrative has become in the situational angle as its own wonder. (B)

a simple and sweet concept in a short and sweet runtime.

Petite Maman, Celine Sciamma’s follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, is a story about love, loss, and the relationships we forge with our parents, among other things. After the death of her grandmother, a young girl visits her grandmother’s home with her parents to help clean it out. While walking in the woods, she inexplicably meets the childhood version of her mother and a younger version of the grandmother who recently died. It is a quiet, sensitive parable bolstered by Sciamma’s restrained but effective direction, strong performances, especially from the two young girls, and a story that, while it really doesn’t make much sense, somehow manages to hit all of the right chords. Suspend disbelief, if possible, and enjoy the journey.

One of the most wonderful sweet movies l have ever had the pleasure to see

An utter delight. Even though it is an extremely short movie, it does manage to capture the slowness of time for children and the ease that they accept a world that is more magical.