A young girl grieving her grandmother discovers a portal to the past and befriends her mother as a child. Céline Sciamma's tender fable weaves magical realism into a quietly devastating meditation on loss, memory, and the love between mothers and daughters.
French cinema
magical realism
mother-daughter story
grief & healing
Tips
⏱️just 72 minutes — no intermission needed
🎬from Céline Sciamma, director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
🇫🇷in French with subtitles
Petite Maman (2021)
Old Fourth Ward
A young girl grieving her grandmother discovers a portal to the past and befriends her mother as a child. Céline Sciamma's tender fable weaves magical realism into a quietly devastating meditation on loss, memory, and the love between mothers and daughters.
French cinema
magical realism
mother-daughter story
grief & healing
Tips
⏱️just 72 minutes — no intermission needed
🎬from Céline Sciamma, director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
🇫🇷in French with subtitles
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