Petite Maman
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss. From TMDB
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60 of 108 · most liked firstWhat’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - Broadcast News 90s - A League of Their Own 00s - Zodiac 10s - Arrival 20s - Petite Maman
positive · AI labelView post →As I was writing my review of BLUE HERON, I realized that it would make a great double feature with PETITE MAMAN for reasons that don't seem obvious at first. My @ebertvoices.bsky.social review of PETITE is one of the best of mine. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/peti...
positive · AI labelView post →Finally caught up with Céline Sciamma's PETITE MAMAN. A deeply relatable but at the same time unique marvel of joy, sadness and childhood. Best film experience I've had in a long time. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Petite Maman is the best time travel movie of the century.
positive · AI labelView post →📽️ #FilmSky #NowWatching Petite Maman (2021) Dir. Céline Sciamma
neutral · AI labelView post →I apparently feel like crying tonight. Now rewatching Petite Maman (2022) #filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Choosing just one movie for 2021 was hard, so here are some of my other favorites #filmsky Titane Petite Maman Mad God Pig
positive · AI labelView post →Putting the + in #ACenturyPlus! Favorite + Best film for 2020-25: 2020: Blow the Man Down + First Cow 2021: Petite Maman + The Power of the Dog 2022: Kimi + Babylon 2023: La Chimera + Past Lives 2024: Rebel Ridge + The Substance 2025: The Ballad of Wallis Island + Sinners What are yours? #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →#100Years100FaveFilms #Filmsky Day 95: Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcE... As much as Sciamma’s previous film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, this one, in its quiet way, is sublime. It made me feel better about life, & what more could one want from a work of art?
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman (2021) last nite. It was an enchanting French movie about love and grief featuring twin girls who were charming af. 72 minute runtime that felt like a half-hour. I ended up rewatching most of it. I've seen 3 films by Sciamma and they're all excellent.
positive · AI labelView post →Waited much too long to watch Celine Sciamma's Petite Maman. Gentle, powerful. Thinking a lot today about what children need from adults. It's not a foodie film, but I loved all the easy meals, even just the ritual of pouring milk on cereal. This is what parents do.
positive · AI labelView post →Top of the decade: I Saw the TV Glow Petite Maman Let Them All Talk Drive-Away Dykes Sharp Stick Asteroid City Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie Stars at Noon Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Blue Moon Kajillionaire Showing Up My First Film The French Dispatch Blue Heron
positive · AI labelView post →The man from earth. It used to be Petite Maman, but then I met someone who had seen it. Both are small movies that feel big. Only that the end will you say "wait did this movie have 2 sets and 5 actors"
positive · AI labelView post →I'm still mad that they published My Life as a Courgette - an Oscar nominated feature film!! - as a special feature on the Petite Maman disc.
neutral · AI labelView post →Petite Maman would be worth considering, if you liked Past Lives - another "quiet" movie with a nuanced examination of the relationships between people.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched 'Petite Maman'. Really one of my favorite films. A beautiful and tender 70-minute piece about lost childhood and generational connections. And the actual best time travel movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Hit up the #barnesandnoble #criterioncollection sale with my fellow #filmnerd @jmar1244! I got Céline Sciamma’s PETITE MAMAN , Brett Morgan’s MOONAGE DAYDREAM, Hal Ashby’s BEING THERE, and one new-to-me film, Martin Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS. Can’t wait to see the Scorsese flick! 🤓🎞️🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →for her birthday family-viewing movie pick, our daughter selected Petite Maman—my third viewing of the film, an absolute joy
positive · AI labelView post →I picked up a couple almost free movies from Criterion (thanks to surprise coupon codes). Petite Maman is a wonderful movie that almost makes me cry every time I think about it. Don't Look Now is probably in my all time top 5 so I feel real good about picking it up in 4k. Great movies. 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Film & TV Viewing Tally for November 2025. (Still deep in DS9, but trying to have more frequent movie nights!) The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) Hope and Glory (1987) My Night at Maud’s (1969) Petite Maman (2021) A Short Film About Love (1988) Gregory’s Girl (1981) TNG - 2 DS9 - 21 STX - 3
neutral · AI labelView post →I love how Criterion will occasionally toss an entire extra movie on one of their releases as a bonus feature. I didn't even realize My Life as a Zucchini was on Petite Maman when I ordered it. I've been meaning to watch that for ages.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowSeated for Petite Maman at the IFI. #52filmsbywomen
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite films of the 2020s so far Saint Omer Drive My Car Petite Maman First Cow
positive · AI labelView post →goddamn the climax to this movie rules so hard, yeah let’s just do a fucking Petite Maman scene to wrap things up, that’s so cool
positive · AI labelView post →Just trying to think what the last new film I saw that hit me the way Scarlet did was... MAYBE Past Lives, before that Petite Maman (which makes sense, Sciamma is the only filmmaker I think is as/more exciting than Hosoda right now).
positive · AI labelView post →What’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 90s - Babe 00s - Pride & Prejudice 10s - Moonlight 20s - Petite Maman
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film choice.. 📽️ Petite Maman (2021) Mystical drama. Eight-year-old Nelly meets a young girl playing in the woods behind her dead grandmother's house and they seem to have an awful lot in common... In French/subs. www.channel4.com/programmes/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →I cannot reccomend Petite Maman enough. Celine Sciamma is such a masterful filmmaker and this movie is just so wholly wonderful. Just keep tissues nearby. https://youtu.be/iavDAuCkQEE
positive · AI labelView post →I rewatched “Petite Maman” (I think it actually was the Criterion edition) and loved it even more the second time. The kid actors in particular were extraordinary. Helped obviously that they were twins but they were so good together. And I normally think kid actors are terrible. The most amazing thing (spoilers I suppose) was the scene where Marion talks about her dream of becoming an actress, and Nellie’s face falls for a tiny fraction of a second, and then recovers. Marion doesn’t notice…
positive · AI labelView post →Freeview (UK) #film of the day : Céline Sciamma's charming fantasy drama Petite Maman (2021 73 mins.) starring Joséphine Sanz and Gabrielle Sanz. [Film 4 1.30AM Tuesday & +1] www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/...
neutral · AI labelView post →That's wild. One of the things I find fascinating about movie prices (and clearly I'm speaking for the US) is how I can pay the same thing to see PETITE MAMAN or AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. A "feature film" could be Chaplin's THE KID or Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Running time, budget... all elastic.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching the newest movie on the #SightandSound list, Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman (2021).
unlabelledView post →🚨 New Essay Alert! 🚨 The Films of Celine Sciamma: Petite Maman I discuss COVID era filmmaking, the sociology of grief and loss, and the importance of peer group and family socialization. #filmsky #criterion thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
unlabelledView post →Looking for a change of pace from tonight’s movie game so we are gettin into something foreign. Nuggets win - Petite Maman Nuggets lose - Little Siberia #MileHighBasketball
unlabelledView post →Petite Maman is a beautiful movie, I loved it👍
unlabelledView post →Akkurat den biten minnar meg om litt om Celine Sciammas "Petite Maman" (Lille Mamma) som er ein så stor film ein liten pakke. Uhørt! Ligg forresten fire Sciamma-filmar på #filmoteket no Lille Mamma, Girlhood (knallgod), Portrett av en kvinne i flammer (som har nådd breidt ut) og Paris.
unlabelledView post →I feel like staring at the wall all day so let's watch a film instead ❗ #nw Petite Maman #filmsky
unlabelledView post →#WatchingNow Title: Petite Maman (2021) Watching on the recommendation of @julietata.bsky.social. Looks like something I will enjoy immensely. #Movies
unlabelledView post →Ma Vie De Courgette/ My life as a Zucchini Georgous little French stop motion film about belonging, loss and friendship Directed by Claude Baras and Co-Wrote by Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a lady on fire & Petite Maman) “Sometimes we cry when we are happy”
unlabelledView post →Cracking films from Scott here. Surprised how little I see Petite Maman spoken about on socials. Beautiful film. And five years ago, I picked The Social Network as a top three film of the 2010s — that pick is aging *magnificently* in my view. Watcher was one of my favourites from Sundance 2022. 👍🏻
unlabelledView post →Our next time bending film is the french film Petite Maman from director Céline Sciamma.
unlabelledView post →Psycho Goreman Howl's Moving Castle I Saw the TV Glow Lego Batman Movie I Saw the Devil Portrait of a Lady on Fire Petite Maman Akira Just off the top of my head. But they need to be your faves!
unlabelledView post →Favorite movie of each year of the 2020s: 2020: First Cow 2021: Petite Maman 2022: Trenque Lauquen / All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (tie) 2023: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2024: Dahomey 2025: BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions 2026 (so far): Blue Heron #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Oh well you have multiple treats in store! The new edits of Tomboy & Girlhood will hopefully get distribution, but Petite Maman is just a perfect perfect film for any moment.
unlabelledView post →Le Paradis by Zeno Graton is a recent queer movie that I loved; Portrait de la jeune fille en feu by Céline Sciamma is another queer movie. From the same director you have Petite Maman, very moving imo.
unlabelledView post →What’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - E.T. 90s - Magnolia 2000s - Zodiac 2010s - The Florida Project 2020s - Petite Maman
unlabelledView post →Family Movie NIght: Sciamma double header with My Life as a Zucchini and Petite Maman. Petite Maman ultimately reminded me of The Man From Earth, though the beginning evoked Pan's Labyrinth more than anything else. An instant classic, and a phenomenal low budget film.
unlabelledView post →Petite Maman is such a beautiful film!
unlabelledView post →Plus - Shakespeare riff SHE'S THE MAN via Hold Up and MINORITY REPORT 16mm at Revue, A CINDERELLA STORY slumber party and Bigelow co-directed THE LOVELESS at Fox, Sciamma's PETITE MAMAN at Alliance Francaise, doc POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS at Power Plant, Canadian Film Fest continues at Scotia. #toRep
unlabelledView post →That said Petite Maman is a great film
unlabelledView post →I remember reading him gush about Petite Maman in National Review, comparing Sciamma to Spielberg, and like it's funny imagining NR readers watching that movie on his recommendation, but it also made it clear that he does the culture war shit purely for the money and not the love of the game lol
unlabelledView post →i would have found Tomboy or Girlhood to be even more surprising since Petite Maman is her newest film but point taken. now if he had also name-checked My Life as a Courgette (she co-wrote the screenplay) ...
unlabelledView post →Well, that was a beautiful, moving, unique film! I love discovering something unexpectedly new. The day before yesterday, I hadn’t even heard of it! ❤️ #PetiteMaman #CelineSciamma
unlabelledView post →That was a GREAT movie! It was a bonus feature on the Criterion blu ray for Petite Maman.
unlabelledView post →My favorite movie is Petite Maman, even though I speak very little French & have to read the subtitles. It’s simply brilliant. Petite Maman share.google/lZ021Md76hnE...
unlabelledView post →I Know Where I'm Going! The Artist A Cat in Paris Belleville Rendezvous Chacun Cherche Son Chat The Shaun the Sheep Movie And the recommendation of Petite Maman is an excellent one
unlabelledView post →Because the internet is for movie recommendations. Saw Petite Maman in the theaters on my wife's birthday in 2021. So great…
unlabelledView post →15: Celine Sciamma (Has never made a bad film) Petite Maman Portrait of a Lady on Fire Water Lilies
unlabelledView post →I limited myself to one movie per director, not because Miyazaki would *necessarily* dominate the list, but because I just didn't want the headache of trying to rank each of his movies against both Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Petite Maman.
unlabelledView post →Best Film Tragedies of 2021 1. Passing 2. Drive My Car 3. Stillwater 4. Petite Maman 5. Benediction 6. Benedetta 7. The Souvenir Part II 8. The Many Saints of Newark 9. The Power of the Dog 10. The Voyeurs
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