In Céline Sciamma’s newest feature, Petite Maman, for the first time, mother and daughter speak the same language and play the same games—perhaps discovering that they understood each other all along. TIFF
), offer a touching reflection on what it means to say goodbye and how children and adults process grief. Nelly is serene and forthright, exhibiting a child’s acceptance and sincerity. But an understandable pallor of sadness hangs over the family as Nelly, her mother, and her father arrive at the grandmother’s home and begin to pack up her belongings and the remains of Marion’s childhood there many years before.
Nelly’s father explains that it was too difficult for her mother to stay; he and Nelly will finish packing on her behalf. Nelly eventually ventures into the surrounding forest in search of a lost ball—the same forest her mother has lovingly described as the site of a hut she built and played in as a child. Instead of the toy, she finds a girl her age building a beautiful branch-frame bower in the woods.
Rather than dwell on, or even attempt to explain, the mechanics of the time travel, both the film and the girls embrace the exceptional circumstances that allow mother and daughter this surprising and intimate connection without question. Marion anxiously awaits an important surgery, while Nelly knows she must soon return home with her family, but, for a few days, Nelly and Marion are able to be children together.
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