'Cinematic perfection may be technically unattainable, but good luck finding a flaw with 'Petite Maman,'' writes nschager
, a 2019 period romance about a blossoming affair between a noblewoman and the artist hired to paint her. Yet like all her work, it remains intimately attuned to the experiences and perspectives of women who are bonded by blood, affection, and circumstance.
Among other things, the film is about the childhood process of learning to say goodbye—which is universal and can be quite jarring. Was that idea also a part of your inspiration? There’s a specificity to many of the film’s details, be it Nelly feeding her mom while driving, or finding the hidden cupboard in the house, or the tree fort. How much of that was mined from your own childhood?
This transition, and those two forces, are happening at the same moment. I think it’s the same everywhere, it’s just that in France, there’s a very, very strong system of support for films, and independent cinema, and there’s big funding, so there’s a lot of newcomers. But we’ll see, the turn that the industry will take.We can’t tell. In France right now, we’re in the middle of a very difficult political moment, in-between the two rounds of our presidential election.
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