Petite Maman (2021) on Netflix
Nelly is eight and has lost her grandmother. She helps clear out her mother's childhood home, and in the woods meets another child her own age building a shelter of fallen branches.
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- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.3/1021,268 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes97%
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Plot summary
Nelly, who is eight, has just lost her grandmother, a woman disabled by a hereditary illness, and she is unhappy that she never said a proper good-bye. Her mother Marion, weighed down by grief, and her father take her to the house where Marion grew up so that they can clear it out. The parents have known each other since childhood and there is tension between them. Nelly wakes one night to find her mother asleep alone on a sofa; by morning Marion has gone without a word to her daughter. Out in the woods, Nelly comes across another child of her own age, who is building a shelter out of wind-fallen branches, and Nelly joins in. Rain drives them indoors, to the girl's house.
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- In Sight & Sound's 2022 poll of the greatest films of all time, Petite Maman received 13 votes, the most of any film from the 2020s, tying with classics including Grave of the Fireflies, Napoléon, Star Wars and Intolerance.
