Petite Maman – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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TWO girls baking, messily. Marion (Gabrielle Sanz) and Nelly (Josephine Sanz) in Celine Sciamma’s beautiful film ‘Petite Maman’ on the European Film Festival in South Africa. Photograph courtesy of The Guardian.

WHO WAS YOUR mother when she was a child? And would you have played with her, if you had met her when you both were eight years old? These ideas are, admittedly head-spinners all of their own. Without sensationalist hi-jinks, Céline Sciamma’s beautiful film, Petite Maman explores the liquid nature of time in a way that touches on the texture of childhood and the smell of memories. It’s another unequivocal best in this year’s European Film Festival which, designed to be hybrid, offers limited screenings and online access in Johannesburg and Cape Town, until 23 October, Mbabane between 21 and 23 October and Maseru, between 28 and 30 October.

Nelly (Josephine Sanz) is a little girl. She’s candid and sharp, warm and direct, and when her maternal granny…

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