Petite Maman (Little Mom) Review

A girl helps an old woman to complete a crossword puzzle and then says goodbye to her, then the camera accompanies the girl to an adjoining room where the girl says goodbye to another old woman, the same thing happens once more until finally the little girl reaches a room where his mother is. Petite Maman places us in what is clearly a hospice for the elderly and without further explanation, we understand that the girl's grandmother, her mother's mother, has passed away. The following minutes are key to understanding the entire plot because they reflect a discreet complicity between mother and daughter, it is a complementarity that manifests itself with the little hands of the girl reaching some sandwiches into her mother's mouth while she drives.

Céline Sciamma , who a couple of years ago directed the superb Portrait of a Woman on Fire (2019) , builds the film around the void left by the death of a mother and the reflection of the definition of identity that is intertwined between mothers and daughters. The story is based on a fantasy where time loses relevance and where the innocence of childhood is the main protagonist. Sciamma has an impeccable mastery of that capacity for surprise that children have and that she plays Nelly, the little girl with a lonely, curious and intelligent appearance.

It happens to be inevitable to enter the spaces that belongs to the old house that the deceased grandmother has left or to get lost inside of the forest that surrounds it. At the time where nelly meets another girl inside of the woods, the intimacy that happens to be created between them happens to be immediate, almost natural. The film is going to then explain to us the reason as well as every single one this puzzle full that belongs to sweetness is going to find an existing meaning that goes directly to the heart.

petite maman (2021) happens to be an existing carefully worked film, with an existing contemplative attitude as well as at the same time contagious inside of its delicate as well as sensitive spirit. The inevitable loneliness that we have every single one felt during the same time that children at some point happens to be reflected on top of the screen as well as happens to be mixed with that feeling that belongs to bewilderment at understanding everything that happens around us. The dialogues happen to be precise as well as the paintings frame spaces that seem to exist as a taken that was by an existing children's book with some fascinating story.

The acting work falls on top of the twins joséphine as well as gabrielle sanz, who play nelly as well as marion, the two girls who seem to exist as a confused with each other as well as whose bond happens to be built such as the hut that belongs to branches as well as trunks that they form inside of the middle that belongs to the forest. The imagination has to fly as well as both girls interpret that trip with an existing solidity that seems to exist as a loaded with experience.

the link between generations, the meeting that belongs to the past, the construction that belongs to an existing feminine identity as well as the design that belongs to an existing world that belongs to their own happen to be presented inside of an existing subtle as well as brilliant way. This happens to be an existing great film, made by an existing director who continues to build an existing remarkable filmography as well as that is going to inevitably make us think that belongs to our little mom, spanish that is going to belong to petite maman.