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b'After 2019\\u2019s Portrait of a Lady of Fire, we were eagerly awaiting C\\xe9line Sciamma\\u2019s next feature. Her new film, Petite Maman, is now finally in theaters, and it\\u2019s something of a surprise: a sweet, magical-realist story about a little girl who meets and befriends a younger version of her grieving mother. It\\u2019s a more modest film than the swooning period romance of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, but Petite Maman is just as profound in its play with gender roles and women\\u2019s inner worlds. \\n\\nAs Amy Taubin writes in an essay in this week\\u2019s Film Comment Letter, \\u201cAll of Sciamma\\u2019s films contain autobiographical elements, but none are as revealing as Petite Maman\\u2019s portrait of the filmmaker as a fledgling tomboy writer/director, already eager to claim all roles on-screen and off that only have been bestowed on men.\\u201d FC Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish sat down with the director over Zoom to dig into those autobiographical elements, the film\\u2019s deceptive simplicity, Sciamma\\u2019s love of classic children\\u2019s films, and much more.'