Ceĺine 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 accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl 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. Includes My Life as a Zucchini (2016), an Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and cowritten by Sciamma.
MPAA rating: PG.
Neon and Lilies Films ; written and directed by Ceĺine Sciamma.
Special features: 2K digital master; new conversation between director Ceĺine Sciamma and filmmaker Joachim Trier; My Life as a Zucchini (2016), an Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and cowritten by Sciamma; trailers; booklet containing an essay by author So Mayer.
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.
Josephine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse.
Cinematography, Claire Mathon; editor, Julien Lacheray; music, Para One.
DVD; NTSC, region 1, wide screen; Dolby Digital 5.1.
French dialogue; English subtitles.
