'Petite Maman' goes from a fanciful, delicate fantasy to something like a minor mood-piece masterpiece. Here's our review.
Wandering around the woods — the same rural expanse where Mom played as a kid — Nelly comes across a hut. It looks like the fort thatdescribed as her personal sanctuary of yesteryear. Soon, she meets another girl. Her name is Marion , and the first thing you notice is that these two bear a striking resemblance to each other; the fact that the youngsters are played by siblings explains the how, but not quite the why.
this storytelling pivot to fairy-tale Romanticism is likely to induce whiplash; it is quite obviously the furthest thing from a steamy tale of constricting social norms and repressed desire. But should you be familiar with her back catalog, notably, then you know that the agonies and ecstasies of growing up have been a longtime fascination. French cinema has a long, rich history of movies about the formative years, from.
Sciamma is weaving a spell here, so pure in its emotional resonance that it breaks your heart even as it heals wounds. There is a wrestling with extremely adult notions of loss, family, identity, acceptance, letting go and saying goodbye that the movie deals with, and the fact that it’s filtered through the eyes and voices of kids makes it’s easy to miss how deep she’s going. I’ve seen it three times now, and the movie seems to burrow a little bit further down into your soul every time.
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