Nowadays. A little girl, Nelly, comes to lose her grandmother and finds herself in her house in the wilderness with her parents. Nelly, to keep busy, decides to explore the woods and go find the place where his mother built a cabin. She meets Marion, a little girl who looks like two drops of water: Marion is Nelly's mother.
Céline Sciamma, one of the most atypical filmmakers of French cinema is back with Little Mom.
You will understand, here, Céline Sciamma adapts in her own way the journey in time. The particularity is to treat this journey not through science fiction, but fantasy. Time travel has no rational explanation here. The reason why Nelly manages to find herself in the presence of her mother child in the 80s is not explained. She understands herself. Like the line "are you from the future? She is obviously childish. No need for proof, the facts are there. Point. This time travel can be interpreted as the search for lost emotion. The first part of Little Mother evokes above all mourning. And the traitor in a very refined, dry, tearless way. Let's not hide it, the beginnings of the new Sciamma are very austere. But, the more time passes, the more we realize that the objective here is to make us feel the absence of a presence. To allow us to identify with the emotions of the protagonists, to make us feel the absence of this important member of the family that is the grandmother. 
An austere film
This austerity gradually disappears to drag us into the joyful frontiers of the fable, of the fantastic. A tale that is at the crossroads of a Back to the Future and Miyazaki's films. Sciamma's processes, refined, simple, in the manner of his staging, here very fixed, take us precisely to a complexity, to an abyss of sensations ranging from pure joy to anguish. It is all these emotions that collide in a joyful mixture before leading us to an insane climax. Little Mother is an austere film. Even more than Portrait of the Girl on Fire. Like his previous film, music is almost absent. It was then that the two girls, spending their last days together, decided to explore a lake. The music then appears at the same time as our chills. And finish showing us a film of brilliant purity, capsizing our little hearts of spectators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fDNrK8nid4
