Petite Maman, 2021.Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne, and Margot Abascal.SYNOPSIS: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 same age building a […]
Movie Review – Petite Maman (2021)
Petite Maman, 2021.Written and directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, and Nina Meurisse.SYNOPSIS: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 same age building a treehouse.After the colossal global […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Petite Maman
Petite Maman, 2021.Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne, and Margot Abascal.SYNOPSIS: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 same age building a […]
Movie Review – A Woman’s Life (2016)
A Woman’s Life, 2016.Directed by Stéphane Brizé. Starring Judith Chelma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, and Nina Meurisse.SYNOPSIS:A young woman sets out on the path to adulthood and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman’s life in the mid 19th-century.Life is never as good or as bad as one thinks, wrote Guy de Maupassant in his novel Une […]
Second Opinion – A Woman’s Life (2016)
A Woman’s Life, 2016.Directed by Stephane Brize. Starring Judith Chemla, Nina Meurisse, Swann Arlaud, Finnegan Oldfield, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, and Yolande Moreau.SYNOPSIS:In 19th century France, a young woman from a wealthy family gets married, but soon becomes disillusioned by the harsh realities facing women at the time.This week started with equality taking centre stage, loud and […]
