PETITE MAMAN
Twins Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz as Nelly and Marion.
★★★★★
OUT 19 NOVEMBER CERT U / 73 MINS
DIRECTOR Céline Sciamma
CAST Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne
PLOT Following her grandmother’s death, eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) and her mother (Meurisse) and father (Varupenne) empty her former home. In the woods outside, Nelly befriends Marion (Gabrielle Sanz), also eight — and her mother’s younger self.
AFTER THE GORGEOUS, windswept Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Céline Sciamma returns with a story that is just as elegant and compelling, and even more microscopic in its focus. Made under lockdown conditions with a tiny cast and barely 75 minutes long, this packs in more human emotion than films three times its length.