Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother’s death, eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) accompanies her distraught mother (Nina Meurisse) to her childhood home. There, Nelly’s encounter with another young girl (Gabrielle Sanz) brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood’s perpetual state of wonder through luminous, richly textured images, Petite maman takes viewers on a journey inward for a quietly miraculous tale of emotional time travel.
FILM INFO
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France
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2021
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73 minutes
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Color
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1.85:1
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French
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Spine #1181
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
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4K digital master
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New conversation between director Céline Sciamma and filmmaker Joachim Trier
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Trailers
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PLUS: An essay by author So Mayer
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New cover by Carson Ellis