Little White Lies

Petite Maman

Directed by CÉLINE SCIAMMA

Starring JOSÉPHINE SANZ, GABRIELLE SANZ, NINA MEURISSE

Released 19 NOVEMBER

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,” wrote French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in 1949. Seventy years on, her observation about gender identity holds true – and finds, a gentle drama about daughterhood by French writer/director Céline Sciamma. It’s set predominately in a modest house, with a small cast that opts for subtlety, but this is no simple, traditional nor literal coming-of-age tale. By welcoming the benevolent shadow-self lurking behind de Beauvoir’s quote – that is, the adult who carries their childhood inside them like a pearl – becomes a profound meditation on inheritance

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