After her grandmother's death, a little girl helps clean out her house with her parents. In the woods, she meets another little girl, who looks strangely like her, and they becomes friends. The film is made with such guileless simplicity that when we realise that the other girl is actually the girl's mother, and when we visit her house we're actually going back in time, that you accept it absolutely. It's short and sweet, somehow a really beautiful, quiet film. The scene with the two girls (actually sisters, Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz) making pancakes is absolutely delightful. They are incredibly natural - Sciamma must have had a good way with them.
Loved in the end credits that the 'music of the future' is subtitled, and the 'smoking fox' drawing appears.
With Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne, Margot Abascal. Yes, a minimal cast in what must have been a very cheap film to make. Claire Mathon's cinematography is great at catching shadows and light patterns.
Céline actually wondered what it would have been like to be the same age as her mother, a painful question as they are not close.
I find to my amusement that we already own two other films by the director, Water Lillies (2007) and Tomboy (2011) both of which now on the 'to watch' list.
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