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Movie ID: 777
RT slug: petite_maman
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/petite_maman
Release year: 2022
Runtime: 72 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2022-04-22
Festival premiere date: 2021-03-03
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 97%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Drama
Directors: Celine Sciamma
Writers: Celine Sciamma
Producers: Benedicte Couvreur
MPAA rating: PG
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-16 21:11:02
Updated: 2026-06-16 21:11:02
After her grandmother's death, an eight-year-old girl meets a mysterious child in the woods who helps her understand her mother's childhood.
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Canonical reviews: 218
Canonical fresh: 212
Canonical rotten: 6
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 97%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-16 13:57:29
Snapshot Tomatometer: 97%
Snapshot review count: 218
Snapshot fresh count: 212
Snapshot rotten count: 6
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| Lilies Films | production |
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| 1 | Josephine Sanz | Nelly |
| 2 | Gabrielle Sanz | Marion |
| 3 | Nina Meurisse | The Mother |
| 4 | Margot Abascal | The Grandmother |
| 5 | Stephane Varupenne | The Father |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176016 | Christina Newland | iNews.co.uk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-09-19T22:12:49Z | 2024-09-19 22:12:49 | A quiet but powerful tale of grief, family love, and the mysterious world of childhood friendship. |
| 176017 | Hector A. Gonzalez | The Movie Buff | Fresh | B+ | 2024-09-08T18:10:36Z | 2024-09-08 18:10:36 | Petite Maman is a sweet, tender, and fairytale-esque film that focuses on grief and escapism during your childhood. Even though it is only 72-minutes long, it is wholly enchanting and poignant. |
| 176018 | Greg Carlson | Vague Visages | Fresh | — | 2023-11-08T20:33:50Z | 2023-11-08 20:33:50 | Sciamma’s handling of the interactions between the kids is as confident and as beautifully realized as the depiction of relationships in Water Lilies, Tomboy and Girlhood. |
| 176019 | James Kendrick | Q Network Film Desk | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-10-06T14:31:07Z | 2023-10-06 14:31:07 | There are some hard adult truths, but the film is so filled with little notes of grace and tenderness that it leaves us with the sense that the world has much more wonder than sadness, more connection that isolation, more hope than cynicism. |
| 176020 | Sarah Vincent | Cambridge Day | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-08-16T01:50:29Z | 2023-08-16 01:50:29 | Sciamma embraces time travel without the sci-fi world-building and creates a ghost story using the living. By taking fear out of these genres and turning them into quotidian and poignant experiences, Sciamma erases fear from death and loss. |
| 176021 | Taylor Gates | That Hashtag Show | Fresh | 90/100 | 2023-08-10T22:28:00Z | 2023-08-10 22:28:00 | Fans of Celine Sciamma are sure to delight in the beauty and power of Petite Maman. If you’re looking for a soft, heartwarming film that knows how to pack an emotional punch, you won’t be disappointed in this film. |
| 176022 | Tina Kakadelis | Beyond the Cinerama Dome | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T02:36:10Z | 2023-07-25 02:36:10 | This slow-moving ode to childhood friendships and parental relationships is not for everyone, but for those who connect with it, it’s something special. In a word, Petite Maman is tender. |
| 176023 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-05-29T00:26:15Z | 2023-05-29 00:26:15 | This ephemeral wisp of a movie is almost like a dream, not that is uses dream logic, but in the way that it's so delicately beautiful that it feels like it could just waft away. |
| 176024 | Elle Haywood | Vague Visages | Fresh | — | 2023-05-15T19:40:00Z | 2023-05-15 19:40:00 | Petite Maman offers a portrait of curiosity, contemplation and warmth. |
| 176025 | David Gonzalez | The Cinematic Reel | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-01-31T14:02:25Z | 2023-01-31 14:02:25 | Despite working on a smaller canvas, Sciamma’s Petite Maman explores loss in a much more tangible way as she delivers another masterfully crafted portrait that examines the mother-daughter relationship with elegance and grace. |
| 176026 | Ella Feldman | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2022-12-27T01:25:26Z | 2022-12-27 01:25:26 | With a dash of magical realism, Petite Maman invites us to imagine what we would ask our mothers, and what they would tell us, if we could suspend, just for a moment, the unspoken rules of the parent-child relationship. |
| 176027 | Scout Tafoya | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | — | 2022-12-23T00:42:37Z | 2022-12-23 00:42:37 | Relentlessly touching... |
| 176028 | Eric Marchen | Rogers TV | Fresh | A+ | 2022-12-04T04:50:59Z | 2022-12-04 04:50:59 | Céline Sciama’s follow up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire exemplifies the power of short, but emotionally satisfying storytelling without ever sacrificing poignant observation in the process. |
| 176029 | Dallas King | Outtake Mag | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-12T23:09:20Z | 2022-11-12 23:09:20 | Petite Maman is a little slice of cinematic heaven. C’est vraiment magnifique. |
| 176030 | Michael Cuby | them. | Fresh | — | 2022-09-26T22:57:46Z | 2022-09-26 22:57:46 | Much like its predecessor, Petite’s cinematography takes full advantage of light and color to add texture to the story in ways that extend far beyond the performances alone. |
| 176031 | Mitchell Beaupre | Awards Radar | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-09-22T06:02:01Z | 2022-09-22 06:02:01 | We all long to understand each other better, especially those closest to us who feel as though they’re pulling lightyears away. |
| 176032 | Zoë Rose Bryant | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-09-01T07:34:12Z | 2022-09-01 07:34:12 | Petite Maman is yet another intimately emotional epic from Céline Sciamma, who masterfully explores the relationship between mother and daughter. |
| 176033 | Ayelet Dekel | Midnight East | Fresh | — | 2022-08-23T06:44:08Z | 2022-08-23 06:44:08 | Céline Sciamma works magic in Petite Maman, a film that returns to the realm of childhood. |
| 176034 | Alissa Wilkinson | Vox | Fresh | — | 2022-08-05T17:17:45Z | 2022-08-05 17:17:45 | Petite Maman is a pithy, gemlike film. |
| 176035 | Loren King | Newport This Week (RI) | Fresh | — | 2022-08-04T23:02:02Z | 2022-08-04 23:02:02 | This unsentimental film evokes tenderness and heartbreak in what children can never know about a parent, and what a gift it is to imagine glimpsing that precious unknowable, even for a moment. |
| 176036 | Grant Watson | Fiction Machine | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-07-29T06:59:05Z | 2022-07-29 06:59:05 | Such a perfectly formed short story does not need two-and-a-half hours to explore its potential or entertain its audience |
| 176037 | Marilyn Ferdinand | AWFJ.org | Fresh | — | 2022-07-02T21:31:47Z | 2022-07-02 21:31:47 | It is sheer genius for director Celine Sciamma, who also wrote the screenplay, to level the playing field by bringing mother and daughter together as peers to talk about the things that really matter to them. |
| 176038 | Jeffrey Overstreet | JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) | Fresh | A- | 2022-06-28T20:55:27Z | 2022-06-28 20:55:27 | I was vividly reminded of two very special films: Doillon’s Ponette and Sayles’s The Secret of Roan Inish. The films share some unusual strengths: In all three, we follow observant and intelligent children through territory scarred with loss and sadness. |
| 176039 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2022-06-24T23:37:16Z | 2022-06-24 23:37:16 | Now 15 years into her directorial career, Sciamma's talent for truly seeing into hearts and minds is unshakeable, unparalleled and such a lovely wonder to watch — especially when it shines as sublimely and touchingly as it does here. |
| 176040 | John Serba | Decider | Fresh | — | 2022-06-13T16:33:36Z | 2022-06-13 16:33:36 | ... Acknowledges the pain we feel in the wake of death, a universal notion, and renders it profoundly empathetic in its detail and specificity, and its implications about generational femininity. |
| 176041 | Erick Estrada | Cinegarage | Fresh | — | 2022-06-10T17:07:31Z | 2022-06-10 17:07:31 | A personal celebration that turns universal for anyone who remembers the first time they called their mother by their name. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176042 | Jane Freebury | The Canberra Times (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-06-07T00:22:18Z | 2022-06-07 00:22:18 | After the extraordinary Portrait of a Lady on Fire, this bold time-travel fantasy needs fleshing out and leaves the distinct impression that delivery is off-the-cuff, despite the extent to which its subtlety makes the implausible plausible |
| 176043 | Sean P. Means | The Movie Cricket | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-05-29T19:16:56Z | 2022-05-29 19:16:56 | Sciamma pours meaning into every move, every moment, every object, in a beautiful story about two daughters and two mothers, and what separates and bonds them. |
| 176044 | Michael Calleri | Niagara Gazette | Fresh | — | 2022-05-25T03:04:18Z | 2022-05-25 03:04:18 | The film is a delicate cinematic poem that beautifully glides from nostalgia to something genuine and insightful. |
| 176045 | Shikhar Verma | High on Films | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-05-24T14:25:38Z | 2022-05-24 14:25:38 | Petite Maman is a total u-turn from the path that Céline Sciamma traveled in Portrait of Lady on Fire. And yet, this story about our female counterparts feels like it could exist on the other side of the beach. |
| 176046 | Damien Straker | Impulse Gamer | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-05-14T03:52:32Z | 2022-05-14 03:52:32 | This film explores tenuous female bonds with a gentle touch. Meanwhile, the children are joyful and energetic in each other’s company while verging on dark realisations about the adult world. |
| 176047 | Alison Gillmor | Winnipeg Free Press | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-05-14T00:09:57Z | 2022-05-14 00:09:57 | The film, as hyper-focused as it is, really rests on its child actors. |
| 176048 | Felicia Feaster | Riverfront Times | Fresh | — | 2022-05-12T22:53:55Z | 2022-05-12 22:53:55 | This is not a children’s movie but one, instead, that records in exacting detail the unique perception, imagination and even the slower, more prolonged sense of time that defines how children experience the world. |
| 176049 | Margot Harrison | Seven Days (VT) | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-05-11T21:31:16Z | 2022-05-11 21:31:16 | Petite Maman plays out like a masterful short story, just visually heightened enough -- with its blue shadows and warm autumn reds -- to gain the status of a fable. |
| 176050 | Dan Bayer | Next Best Picture | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-05-10T16:00:09Z | 2022-05-10 16:00:09 | That "Petite Maman" can tell this story so succinctly and yet still feel as expansive as an hours-long epic is a testament to Sciamma's talents. She is a true master of the cinematic art, and on her fifth feature, she is only just getting started. |
| 176051 | Erica Ciccarone | Nashville Scene | Fresh | — | 2022-05-09T16:18:52Z | 2022-05-09 16:18:52 | Petite Maman is a story about a girl and her mother, but it is also a story about me and my mother. And you might find yourself in it too. |
| 176052 | David Lynch | KENS 5 TV (San Antonio) | Fresh | — | 2022-05-07T05:14:36Z | 2022-05-07 05:14:36 | “Petite Maman” is excellently written not because of witticisms or didactic truths; it is excellently written because it gently encourages the viewer to look inside themselves for the message it’s sharing. |
| 176053 | John Urbancich | JMuvies | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-05-07T02:37:47Z | 2022-05-07 02:37:47 | Sciamma’s latest is as subtle as her last one was rousing with its intricate explorations of death, mother-daughter connections and childhood friendship all sneaking up on us through the brilliant camera work of Claire Mahon. |
| 176054 | Chris Knight | National Post | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-05-06T18:38:58Z | 2022-05-06 18:38:58 | Petite Maman, a short and simple fable from writer/director Céline Sciamma turned me into a puddle with its final scene. Even days later, my voice would catch as I tried to describe its emotional heft. |
| 176055 | Christopher Lloyd | The Film Yap | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-05-06T18:11:02Z | 2022-05-06 18:11:02 | A dreamy, unconstructed film about mothers and daughters that could have benefitted from a little more -- or any -- semblance of a narrative. Céline Sciamma tries to out-Malick Malick. |
| 176056 | Philip Martin | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Fresh | — | 2022-05-06T17:59:26Z | 2022-05-06 17:59:26 | It's a straightforward and compact movie (73 minutes long) touched with magic. It was one of the best films I saw last year and I'm glad it's getting a widespread theatrical release. It's a movie I'd recommend to almost anyone. |
| 176057 | Radheyan Simonpillai | NOW Toronto | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-05-06T17:58:09Z | 2022-05-06 17:58:09 | A lovely and delicate lesson on processing big emotions in tiny packages. |
| 176058 | Keith Garlington | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Fresh | 90/100 | 2022-05-06T17:43:34Z | 2022-05-06 17:43:34 | With its small scope and Sciamma's delicate touch, this warm and aching fable examines coping with loss and mother/daughter bonds in a voice that should speak to all ages. |
| 176059 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-05-06T14:20:01Z | 2022-05-06 14:20:01 | There's not a lick of pretention in any frame of the film. Sciamma directs with a delicate sensibility, unobtrusive in style and with a love for the everyday nuances that can make small moments so special. |
| 176060 | Karen Gordon | Original Cin | Fresh | A | 2022-05-06T13:49:52Z | 2022-05-06 13:49:52 | Petite Maman is an exercise in simplicity that shows how masterful a story teller and filmmaker Sciamma is. It seems as quiet as a whisper, and yet, at the end, we’re left with something profound and beautiful. |
| 176061 | Adam Graham | Detroit News | Fresh | B | 2022-05-06T12:06:48Z | 2022-05-06 12:06:48 | 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. |
| 176062 | Andiee Paviour | Nobody's Reading This But Me | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-05-05T22:02:08Z | 2022-05-05 22:02:08 | The love between mother and daughter is a thread that unravels the restraints of time. |
| 176063 | Rob Thomas | Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-05-05T19:53:41Z | 2022-05-05 19:53:41 | “Petite Maman” is a gentle but firm reminder to cherish our time and those we share it with. Whatever stage of our lives we’re at, there's no going back once it's gone. |
| 176064 | Alan Zilberman | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2022-05-05T19:38:57Z | 2022-05-05 19:38:57 | The French filmmaker’s latest story is a wistful tale of mothers and daughters. |
| 176065 | Jenny Nulf | Austin Chronicle | Fresh | — | 2022-05-05T10:44:28Z | 2022-05-05 10:44:28 | Petite Maman is a fine balance of heartache and whimsy. |
| 176066 | CJ Johnson | Film Mafia | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-05-05T03:06:06Z | 2022-05-05 03:06:06 | A perfect, gentle jewel, precise, concise, warm, heartfelt, witty, moving and ultimately profound. Sciamma’s direction is sublime and her writing heartfelt. In its modest ambition, Petite Maman achieves a kind of delicate monumentality. Do not miss it. |
| 176067 | Diane Carson | KDHX (St. Louis) | Fresh | — | 2022-05-04T19:53:58Z | 2022-05-04 19:53:58 | At a measured, perfect seventy-two minutes, Petite Maman suggests more about a child’s psychological environment than volumes of literature. It is haunting, insightful, and quite simply profound. |
| 176068 | Ray Pride | Newcity | Fresh | 10/10 | 2022-05-04T17:37:01Z | 2022-05-04 17:37:01 | The ravishing seventy-two-minute fairytale from French writer-director Céline Sciamma is gentle and essential in its refined storytelling; Sciamma works within quietude and with understated confidence. She gathers raptures of the ordinary. |
| 176069 | Chance Solem-Pfeifer | Willamette Week | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-05-04T16:21:37Z | 2022-05-04 16:21:37 | This is childhood the way we wish it could be during a crisis -- and a quietly fantastical tale that punches megatons above its weight. Petite Maman is itself a near-perfect little artifact, a closed loop containing multitudes. |
| 176070 | Michael O'Sullivan | Washington Post | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-05-04T10:12:08Z | 2022-05-04 10:12:08 | “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. |
| 176071 | David Stratton | The Australian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-04-29T21:57:02Z | 2022-04-29 21:57:02 | If ever a film was difficult to categorise it’s Celine Sciamma’s sublime Petite Maman. |
| 176072 | Mark Feeney | Boston Globe | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2022-04-28T17:51:48Z | 2022-04-28 17:51:48 | It’s a thin line between prestidigitation and sham. Once that line is crossed, it’s awfully hard to get back. |
| 176073 | Jim Laczkowski | Director's Club | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-04-28T04:36:10Z | 2022-04-28 04:36:10 | Celine Sciamma has made another masterpiece - short, sweet, tender, fully realized by the end with such an incredible tale about loss & familial connection. Sometimes we forget how little time we have to share with those we love, this film captures that. |
| 176074 | Thomas Caldwell | ABC Radio Melbourne | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-04-27T12:49:37Z | 2022-04-27 12:49:37 | A seemingly small film that resonates with beauty and power. |
| 176075 | Jake Cole | Spectrum Culture | Fresh | — | 2022-04-26T06:48:31Z | 2022-04-26 06:48:31 | Sciammas fabulistic mini-feature may well be her richest work to date. |
| 176076 | Danny Brogan | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-04-25T20:44:25Z | 2022-04-25 20:44:25 | Petite Maman will provide most with plenty to think about or will at least usher people into seeing things differently. Be that as a reminder to adults of what it was like to be a child or to kids that their parents were once children too. |
| 176077 | Betty Jo Tucker | ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Fresh | — | 2022-04-24T04:21:01Z | 2022-04-24 04:21:01 | Seldom do we see a film as charming and delightful as Petite Maman, mostly because of the enchanting performances by youngsters Joséphine Sanz and Gabrielle Sanz. So I had to write a poem about them. |
| 176078 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Fresh | — | 2022-04-23T21:59:35Z | 2022-04-23 21:59:35 | The very memorable drama Petite Maman takes an insightful and endearing look at parent-child relationships and how personalities are formed in childhood ... The results are fascinating, charming, and often sentimental without being mawkish. |
| 176079 | Steven D. Greydanus | Catholic World Report | Fresh | — | 2022-04-23T16:17:14Z | 2022-04-23 16:17:14 | 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. |
| 176080 | Andy Crump | The Week | Fresh | — | 2022-04-22T23:43:55Z | 2022-04-22 23:43:55 | Petite Maman is as accessible as foreign arthouse movies get, and to sweeten the pot, it's a scant 70 minutes in length. The opportunity cost is low. The return on your time investment is stratospheric. |
| 176081 | David Sims | The Atlantic | Fresh | — | 2022-04-22T23:37:37Z | 2022-04-22 23:37:37 | Magna opera have been written on these topics for hundreds of years; Sciamma manages to cram numerous insights into just 72 minutes. |
| 176082 | Lisa Trifone | Third Coast Review | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-04-22T21:06:12Z | 2022-04-22 21:06:12 | To her credit, Sciamma doesn't try to one-up herself with Petite Maman, a small-scale (but not small in heart) production about mothers, daughters, grief, and love. |
| 176083 | Jenni Miller | Bust Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-04-22T19:30:03Z | 2022-04-22 19:30:03 | It is simple, beautiful child logic -- a child’s gaze, steady and clear. |
| 176084 | Thelma Adams | AARP Movies for Grownups | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-04-22T18:54:48Z | 2022-04-22 18:54:48 | 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. |
| 176085 | Alison Willmore | New York Magazine/Vulture | Fresh | — | 2022-04-22T17:52:50Z | 2022-04-22 17:52:50 | 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. |
| 176086 | Ty Burr | Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-04-22T17:48:28Z | 2022-04-22 17:48:28 | The film stakes out a very special sphere of friendship, forgiveness, and understanding. |
| 176087 | Odie Henderson | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-04-22T16:31:04Z | 2022-04-22 16:31:04 | We forget a lot of things when we grow up. This film is a wonderful reminder. |
| 176088 | Ross Bonaime | Collider | Fresh | A- | 2022-04-22T16:23:20Z | 2022-04-22 16:23:20 | With Petite Maman, Céline Sciamma crafts a staggeringly gorgeous fairy tale about the little things we dont get to learn about the ones we love, the struggles of loss, and the loveliness of those that came from the path behind us. |
| 176089 | Michelle Orange | 4Columns | Fresh | — | 2022-04-22T14:27:30Z | 2022-04-22 14:27:30 | The film builds a riddle into its fable of grieving, loss, and return: If a mother and daughter could meet at the same age, how would they relate? The magic is the ease with which it depicts their convergence, its solace a feat of willing imagination. |
| 176090 | Emily Zemler | Observer | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-04-22T13:35:16Z | 2022-04-22 13:35:16 | 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. |
| 176091 | Joe Morgenstern | Wall Street Journal | Fresh | — | 2022-04-22T01:42:17Z | 2022-04-22 01:42:17 | 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. |
| 176092 | Susan Wloszczyna | AWFJ.org | Fresh | — | 2022-04-21T23:14:53Z | 2022-04-21 23:14:53 | With our on-going COVID-19 crisis that continues has disrupted life as we know it and the countless lives lost because of the epidemic, this is the kind of soothing entertainment many of us desperately desire when times are bad. |
| 176093 | Steve Erickson | Gay City News | Fresh | — | 2022-04-21T23:13:59Z | 2022-04-21 23:13:59 | Petite Maman suggests a children’s version of certain landmark films about female friendship, especially Jacques Rivette’s “Celine and Julie Go Boating. |
| 176094 | Al Alexander | The Patriot Ledger | Fresh | A | 2022-04-21T20:24:01Z | 2022-04-21 20:24:01 | It sounds boring on paper. But in practice, it’s downright stirring. And the way it compels you to ponder the childhoods of your own parents is likely to leave you in tears. |
| 176095 | Katie Rife | Polygon | Fresh | — | 2022-04-21T20:16:26Z | 2022-04-21 20:16:26 | 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. |
| 176096 | Esther Zuckerman | Thrillist | Fresh | — | 2022-04-21T18:56:25Z | 2022-04-21 18:56:25 | 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. |
| 176097 | Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-04-21T18:28:41Z | 2022-04-21 18:28:41 | 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. |
| 176098 | Justin Chang | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | — | 2022-04-21T16:56:15Z | 2022-04-21 16:56:15 | 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. |
| 176099 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-04-21T15:47:55Z | 2022-04-21 15:47:55 | Sciamma's storytelling and filmmaking are pointedly succinct. |
| 176100 | Manohla Dargis | New York Times | Fresh | — | 2022-04-21T14:34:38Z | 2022-04-21 14:34:38 | There isn’t a false note or superfluous image in “Petite Maman,” which runs a just-right 72 minutes. It’s perfect. |
| 176101 | David Fear | Rolling Stone | Fresh | — | 2022-04-21T01:03:54Z | 2022-04-21 01:03:54 | Sciamma is weaving a spell here, so pure in its emotional resonance that it breaks your heart even as it heals wounds. |
| 176102 | Edward Douglas | The Weekend Warrior (Substack) | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-04-20T13:51:55Z | 2022-04-20 13:51:55 | Continues Sciamma's terrific run of films. |
| 176103 | Jeanne Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Fresh | — | 2022-04-20T05:08:34Z | 2022-04-20 05:08:34 | At 72 minutes, PETITE MAMAN packs a powerful wallop. Sciammas beautiful writing is made even more meaningful by the performances of twins Joséphine and Gabrielle. |
| 176104 | Robert Kojder | Flickering Myth | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-04-18T20:20:13Z | 2022-04-18 20:20:13 | A lovely children's fable about generational connection oozing with imagination. It's an enchanting, heart-meltingly sincere, thoughtful work |
| 176105 | Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-04-18T11:08:16Z | 2022-04-18 11:08:16 | By the end, it’s goosebumps all around — you’ll know something has happened to you. |
| 176106 | Anthony Lane | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2022-04-18T10:40:32Z | 2022-04-18 10:40:32 | Céline Sciamma’s latest film is her most concise, running a lean seventy-two minutes, and featuring a bare handful of characters and locations. Yet nothing about it feels small. |
| 176107 | Harvey S. Karten | Shockya.com | Fresh | B+ | 2022-04-17T15:36:07Z | 2022-04-17 15:36:07 | A lovely, engaging film, one of those rare movies without conflict--featuring two wonderful child actors. |
| 176108 | Jas Keimig | The Stranger (Seattle, WA) | Fresh | — | 2022-04-09T00:54:46Z | 2022-04-09 00:54:46 | Sciamma's tale of grief holds a quiet, spellbinding magic. It'll make you want to call your mother immediately. |
| 176109 | Nicholas Barber | BBC.com | Fresh | — | 2022-04-07T19:17:46Z | 2022-04-07 19:17:46 | Céline Sciamma follows up Portrait of a Lady on Fire with another intimate and tender tale of female-bonding – and it's another triumph. |
| 176110 | Lynden Barber | Limelight | Fresh | — | 2022-03-21T20:11:07Z | 2022-03-21 20:11:07 | It is a splendid example of how to use a fertile imagination to create a spell over the viewer despite extremely limited resources. |
| 176111 | Ray Lobo | Battle Royale With Cheese | Fresh | — | 2022-03-13T23:04:11Z | 2022-03-13 23:04:11 | Petite Maman is absolutely worth experiencing if for the mere reasons of taking in mood and lighting. |
| 176112 | Poulomi Das | Firstpost | Fresh | — | 2022-03-11T21:02:15Z | 2022-03-11 21:02:15 | At just 75 minutes, the film is Sciamma’s crispest outing and one of her most affecting. |
| 176113 | Josie Meléndez | Full Circle Cinema | Fresh | 7.5/10 | 2022-03-07T22:11:16Z | 2022-03-07 22:11:16 | Its a true slow burn that will ignite a fire in your heart ever so slowly. It will no doubt creep into your mind long after the film has ended. |
| 176114 | Sucharita Tyagi | Film Companion | Fresh | — | 2022-03-04T23:18:25Z | 2022-03-04 23:18:25 | Women telling women's stories! This explores the loneliness of grown women but also nine-year-old girls. |
| 176115 | Susannah Gruder | Reverse Shot | Fresh | — | 2022-02-28T21:12:19Z | 2022-02-28 21:12:19 | 93 The relationship between mother and daughter is one often depicted on film, but perhaps never so lovingly as it is here. |
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