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NEW YORK -- Céline Sciamma's “Petite Maman" runs a mere 72 minutes and yet packs in a lifetime of enchantment. It is, she says, “a pocket film you can take home.”The film, which opened in theaters Friday, is the French writer-director's follow-up to her 2019 award-winning love story “Portrait of a Lady on Fire." Whereas that film took a specific 18th period setting, “Petite Maman” is more contemporary yet still out of time.It's told largely from the perspective of 8-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz), whose grandmother has just died.
While her mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse), wrestles with grief and her father (Stéphane Varupenne) cleans out her grandmother's house, Nelly is left to explore her surroundings. In the woods behind the house, she meets a girl who looks exactly like her (played by Sanz's twin sister, Gabrielle).
With the gentle spell of a fairy tale, it becomes clear that this is Nelly's mother as a child. Where did she come from? “From the path behind you,” she answers.“It's short to watch but it's not short to live,” Sciamma said smiling in a recent interview over Zoom from her apartment in Paris.On a spring afternoon with light pouring through the windows, Sciamma reflected on “Petite Maman," her fifth and in some ways most personal film, one set in the Paris suburb Sciamma grew up in, Cergy-Pontoise.———AP: There isn't a lot that “Petite Maman” and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” have in common, but they're both centered on two characters who connect outside of daily life, free of the baggage of their roles, whether its mother and daughter, or artist and subject.SCIAMMA: My films have kind of always had the same structure.
It's always about one character exploring the world. It's a few days out of society.
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Celine Dion is proof that you can't keep a legend down for long as she delighted fans by taking to social media to announce that she was finally returning.MORE: Celine Dion looks glowing in rare photo amid health woes - fans reactALSO: HELLO! launches Jubilee T-shirt collection to celebrate Queen Elizabeth in styleAfter a period of uncertainty, the Canadian songstress shared the final postponed dates for six of the shows from her Courage tour, now taking place in 2023.VIDEO: Celine Dion surprises fans with exciting announcementShe will return to perform in Paris in September of that year, and while more dates haven't been shared with fans, it's a step in the right direction towards making her comeback on the stage.Celine broke the hearts of many when she shared in late April that she would be unable to fulfill the full requirements of her tour in Europe.MORE: Celine Dion pays emotional tribute to Guy Lafleur with rare photograph of son Rene-CharlesSpeaking to her fans, she said: "Hi everyone. Well, here we are again.
NEW YORK -- American Ballet Theatre has named its first new artistic director in 30 years, and she's a former top ballerina at the company.Susan Jaffe, who was a celebrated principal dancer at ABT for more than two decades, takes over from Kevin McKenzie in December. McKenzie announced last year that he'd be retiring in 2022 after 30 years at the helm.The former ballerina, who has been serving as artistic director at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater since 2020, noted in a statement that this would be her seventh role at ABT, starting as a student and moving up through dancing, teaching and other roles.“What a profound honor it is for me to come back home to lead the artistic helm of American Ballet Theatre,” Jaffe, 59, said in a statement.In addition to her 22 years as a principal dancer at ABT — one of the top classical ballet companies in the world and, along with New York City Ballet, one of America's two leading ballet troupes — Jaffe danced as a guest with companies like the Royal Ballet, the Kirov, the Stuttgart Ballet, La Scala and many others.
Pep Guardiola already has the most enviable squad in the Premier League and two big-name transfers during the upcoming summer window could help him achieve his dream Manchester City line-up. But will that be enough for City to end their European hoodoo next season?
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterHBO Max picked up “Julia” for a second season on Thursday, the same day its Season 1 finale dropped on the streamer. With that good news, fans of the Julia Child scripted series can rest assured they will be learning more about The French Chef herself (played by Sarah Lancashire) and the people who made her the icon she is in Season 2, including Judith Light’s Blanche Knopf.And there will be plenty to uncover about Blanche, the publisher of Child’s best-selling “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” books, in particular. The finale episode, titled “Chocolate Soufflé,” revealed the powerful co-founder and leader of publishing house Knopf is going blind, and only her mentee Judith Jones (Fiona Glascott), who was editor for Child, as well as novelists like John Updike at Knopf, knows about the dire situation.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will see the return of Kelly Bishop’s matchmaking magnate Benedetta alongside nine other additional cast members.Joining Bishop in the final season is Alfie Fuller (“Little America”), who has been upped to series regular, reprising her season four role as Dinah Rutledge.
EXCLUSIVE: Sky Kids has greenlit a third season of Dreamflight – Sleepy Stories, with narrators Dominic Cooper, Nina Sosanya, Rakie Ayola and Dervla Kirwan on board.
Celine Dion has paid a heartfelt tribute to Montreal Canadiens legend and hockey icon Guy Lafleur, who passed away at age 70 on Friday.
Celine Dion took to social media just before the weekend to mourn the loss of an important Canadian figure with a rare family photo.MORE: Celine Dion surprises fans with exciting career news involving unexpected starsThe singer shared an emotional tribute to Canadian ice hockey player Guy Lafleur, who passed away 22 April at the age of 70.VIDEO: Celine Dion delivers unfortunate news with heartfelt videoShe posted a throwback picture of the beaming sports star alongside her eldest son Rene-Charles Angelil, who was a fan of Guy's.Celine wrote: "A great sports legend left us…. a gentleman who inspired us and was an idol for so many.
The cast of Queer Eye can’t speak enough about Angel Flores.
Lyonne), an eccentric New York woman who was caught in a time loop, repeating the day of her 36th birthday, often dying — by getting hit by a car, or in one memorably horrifying episode, falling into a sidewalk cellar door — before waking up that same morning. Her path crossed with Alan (Charlie Barnett), a depressed man who was also stuck in a time loop, and they realized they had to help each other.
Céline Sciamma makes small films that contain multitudes, tender and vivid portraits of sisterhood and self-becoming. Imagining spaces out of places where women can discover themselves and each other freely, the French filmmaker first earned acclaim for a trio of social-realist coming-of-age dramas: 2007’s “Water Lilies,” 2011’s “Tomboy,” and 2014’s “Girlhood.” Though connected in their study of adolescence, gender, and sexuality, as well as their close and empathetic attention to outsiders navigating rites of passage, these films — especially “Girlhood” — also revealed Sciamma’s burgeoning interest in modes of female-gaze storytelling beyond the naturalistic.
Céline Sciamma makes small films that contain multitudes, tender and vivid portraits of sisterhood and self-becoming. Imagining spaces out of places where women can discover themselves and each other freely, the French filmmaker first earned acclaim for a trio of social-realist coming-of-age dramas: 2007’s “Water Lilies,” 2011’s “Tomboy,” and 2014’s “Girlhood.” Though connected in their study of adolescence, gender, and sexuality, as well as their close and empathetic attention to outsiders navigating rites of passage, these films — especially “Girlhood” — also revealed Sciamma’s burgeoning interest in modes of female-gaze storytelling beyond the naturalistic.
Priyanka Chopra, 39, whose bereaved character develops a habit of sending romantic texts to her late fiancé’s former cellphone as a way to cope with his loss. The number turns out to be reassigned to another man, played by Sam Heughan (“Outlander”), 41, who is grappling with his own loss.