FILM
Petite Maman
directed and written by Céline Sciamma
72 minutes
Sciamma’s latest feature both continues and steps aside from the themes of her earlier films. Tomboy, Waterlilies and Girl
make up a coming-ofage ‘trilogy’ about gender and sexual disconnection, about conflicts in moving on from childhood, being a teen, and who we might takes us right back to childhood, to Nelly, an eight-year-old girl whose grandma has just died. It’s a short film, shot quickly during lockdown by a small production team. Yet its ambition and reach resonate, dealing as it does with what connects us, how our lives pass and turn out as they do, the tenor they have.
