Slant Magazine
The film evinces Céline Sciamma's profound knack for visual economy, communicating much with silent looks and structured absences.
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Petite Maman
When her gran passes, an eight-year-old befriends a girl her age building a treehouse in the woods in this Golden Berlin Bear-nominated fantasy-drama from Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mum, Marion, used to play and where she built the treehouse Nelly has heard so much about. One day her mother suddenly leaves. That is when Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, building a treehouse.
2021Rating: PG72 minsFranceNeon
DramaWorld Cinema
Petite Maman / Reviews
Little White Lies
It's an understated yet transportive film that beautifully articulates the way children perceive and process loss and grief.
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Variety
Audiences ought to sense that Sciamma has asked them to participate in a very personal exercise, but one that's open-ended enough for them to project themselves.
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IndieWire
The result is at once both the most ordinary and most enchanted thing that Sciamma has made so far, a wise and delicate wisp of a movie...
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Hollywood Reporter
Sciamma has always shown impeccable skill at illuminating her characters by noticing the tiniest details of their behavior, and Petite Maman is a beguiling continuation of her work in its purest form.
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Screen Daily
Like its dappled forested backdrop, the film is a thing of pensive beauty rather than volatile drama.
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