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A TENDER FAIRY TALE FROM FRANCE

dults spend so much energy trying to understand children that we rarely think about how hard they have to work to understand us from French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, delves into that particular childhood quest with charm and grace. This isn’t a sentimental plea to see life through the eyes of a child. Instead, it’s an ode to the intelligence and perceptiveness of children, to their ability to understand complexities that we sometimes assume are beyond them.

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