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Petite Maman
Directed by
Céline Sciamma
PG
2021
72m
Drama
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Fantasy
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7.4
97%
81%
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Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her age building a tree-house.
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Cast of Petite Maman
Joséphine Sanz
Nelly
Gabrielle Sanz
Marion
Nina Meurisse
La mère
Stéphane Varupenne
Le père
Margot Abascal
La grand-mère
Florès Cardo
Dame maison de retraite
Josée Schuller
Dame maison de retraite
Guylène Péan
Dame maison de retraite
Céline Sciamma
Director / Writer
Bénédicte Couvreur
Producer
Petite Maman Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 5, 2025
Wonderfully crafted story from Céline Sciamma, for whom I am very late to the party. (I’ve yet to see Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It’s on my unpublished shame list though—unpublished because it’s, you know, shameful.) This was a very cute depiction of childhood grief and childhood loss with a really sweet portrayal of a young girl working through that. Wonderful performances from the child actors, Gabrielle and Josephine Sanz. It’s a breezy watch at just 72 minutes but the emotional pull doesn’t feel short changed by any means. Definitely worth checking out. Also, I love time-loops.
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
Relentlessly touching...
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Petite Maman is a pithy, gemlike film.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
This is an ethereal film that works better on an emotional level than it does a literal level; it's a film that feels, so let yourself feel it, too. That's the real stuff.
Austin Chronicle
Jenny Nulf
Petite Maman is a fine balance of heartache and whimsy.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"Petite Maman" is what every film should be: powerfully, even arrestingly original; grounded in emotional truth; hyper-specific; deeply universal; strange; mesmerizing; and not a minute longer than necessary.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
It's a thin line between prestidigitation and sham. Once that line is crossed, it's awfully hard to get back.
Catholic World Report
Steven D. Greydanus
There's no place in a film like Petite Maman for world-bending sorcery or flux capacitors, but the elegant simplicity of what Sciamma does with an unexplained wrinkle in the fabric of reality speaks as eloquently to those longings as any film I've seen.
The Atlantic
David Sims
Magna opera have been written on these topics for hundreds of years; Sciamma manages to cram numerous insights into just 72 minutes.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
There's no fluff, just an unusual exploration of the mother-daughter bond -- and this stunning premise: What would a child encounter if they met their parent as a youth? The answer is an emotional experience like no other.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
It's a perfect creation in miniature, one that doesn't have a wasted frame but that also never feels like it's in a rush.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
The film stakes out a very special sphere of friendship, forgiveness, and understanding.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
We forget a lot of things when we grow up. This film is a wonderful reminder.
Observer
Emily Zemler
It's a film that's equal parts about the fragility of childhood and the tension of familial ties, and its success relies on the subtle power of Sciamma's arresting child actors.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Poetry on screen can't be constructed, or willed into existence. Under the right circumstances, though, it can be allowed. Ms. Sciamma, whose previous feature was the passionate and extravagant Portrait of a Lady on Fire, has created those circumstances.
Polygon
Katie Rife
Petite Maman is the work of an unusually sensitive filmmaker, and it speaks to Sciamma's skill as a director that she's able to express the nuances of this complicated dynamic through such simple actions and words.
Thrillist
Esther Zuckerman
Petite Maman asks existential questions with the purity of youth, while at the same time remaining utterly true to life. It's rare that a film feels as special as this one. Hold it tight.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
Petite Maman may be short and stripped down, but its layers are many and I imagine it's a film that will be more rewarding on subsequent viewings. It's easily one of the best ever made about mothers and daughters.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
No less than the condition of childhood itself, the movie opens up a world of possibilities, all of them beautiful and beguiling - and over all too soon.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
There isn't a false note or superfluous image in "Petite Maman," which runs a just-right 72 minutes. It's perfect.
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