Petite Maman is fantasy/drama about a girl Nelly(Joséphine Sanz) who, while helping her parents clean out her grandmother's house after her death, travels back in time and befriends her mother when she was a little girl.
The two leads, twins Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz are wonderfully understated, emotionally present, and authentic. There is none of the child actor pretention or posturing with either of them and they are both startlingly assured with the interpersonal intricacies within the simple narrative. The few adult actors are equally grounded and real but the focus is, almost exclusively, on the two girls.
Simply shot, basically all on one property, the film has a gentle, soulful momentum and clocks in under 80 minutes. It's impressive and thematically generous(loneliness, grief, motherhood, childhood etc.) but so narratively unembellished further description would lessen the impact.
Emotionally rich yet tender. Potent but breezy.
Currently in theaters coming soon to VOD.
See It.
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