Petite Maman, Céline Sciamma's follow-up to her 2019 international breakthrough Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a more intimate affair.
The acclaimed French filmmaker has switched the erotic charge and sexual politics of her 18th century period drama for a more personal story of love and loss in a tale of an eight-year-old girl trying to connect with her mother.
But there's a twist: Petite Maman, which premiered this week in competition at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, is a time-travel story.
Eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out the childhood home of her mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse).
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