Petite maman

Author

Céline Sciamma

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Languages

In French, with English subtitles.

Performers

Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne, Margot Abascal.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2023]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (73 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

MPA rating: PG; for some thematic elements and brief smoking.

Summary

'Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicate 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."--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.

Special features: 2K digital master ; new conversation between director Céline 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.