Céline Sciamma

Petite maman

Petite maman

Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother’s death, eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) accompanies her distraught mother (Nina Meurisse) to her childhood home. There, Nelly’s encounter with another young girl (Gabrielle Sanz) brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood’s perpetual state of wonder through luminous, richly textured images, Petite maman takes viewers on a journey inward for a quietly miraculous tale of emotional time travel.

Film Info

  • France
  • 2021
  • 73 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • French
  • Spine #1181

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 2K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • New conversation between director Céline Sciamma and filmmaker Joachim Trier
  • My Life as a Zucchini (2016), an Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and cowritten by Sciamma
  • Trailers
  • PLUS: An essay by author So Mayer

    New cover by Carson Ellis

Purchase Options

Coming soon, available May 23, 2023

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 2K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • New conversation between director Céline Sciamma and filmmaker Joachim Trier
  • My Life as a Zucchini (2016), an Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and cowritten by Sciamma
  • Trailers
  • PLUS: An essay by author So Mayer

    New cover by Carson Ellis
Petite maman
Cast
Joséphine Sanz
Nelly
Gabrielle Sanz
Eight-year-old Marion
Nina Meurisse
Marion
Stéphane Varupenne
The father
Margot Abascal
The grandmother
Credits
Director
Céline Sciamma
Written by
Céline Sciamma
Produced by
Bénédicte Couvreur
Cinematography by
Claire Mathon
Editing by
Julien Lacheray
Music by
Para One
Casting by
Christel Baras
Set design by
Lionel Brison
Art direction by
Daniel Bevan
Costume design by
Céline Sciamma
First assistant director
Delphine Daull