#March 2022 actually

[thexfridax]

Time loop: Twin sisters Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz as mother and daughter in ‘Petite Maman’ © Alamode Film

Interview with Céline Sciamma:

“Alliances are extremely important”

An interview with French director Céline Sciamma about her new film ‘Petite Maman’ and the power of women.

By Susanne Lintl, kurier.at, 17.03.2022

[T]ranslated by @thexfridax

Whenever a French film succeeded in the past couple of years, it was very likely that she was involved in it: Céline Sciamma, born in 1978, does not only write excellent screenplays (among others for Jacques Audiard’s great suburban documentary[sic] ‘Les Olympiades’ or for André Téchinè’s ‘Quand on a 17 ans’); with her own films, she’s also become one of the most important voices in the European auteur cinema in the past 15 years. In her new film ‘Petite Maman – When we were children’ (coming to cinemas as of Friday), the follow-up to her multi-award winning female drama ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’, the staunch feminist and Lesbian (she was in a relationship with Adèle Haenel for a long time) goes on a tender journey of childhood. At the house of her recently deceased grandmother, an 8-year old girl meets her mother who happens to be of the same age, and finally begins to truly understand her through joint talks and activities.

“It was my idea that a child meets a young version of her mother. Children are a good topic in cinema, because they are precise observers. Vital analysts of their environment and of course of their parents. In a certain way, it makes you come alive, when you observe them. Children are curious and have their own perspective of the world. Instinctively, you think about your own life, your own experiences as a child,” says Sciamma in the interview with the KURIER[.] Of course, she’s borrowed from her own childhood: “There were many connections. First of all, I made the film in the city, where I came from, in Cergy-Pontoise. The house and the rooms are based on my grandmother’s house, which I remember very well. It’s made a lasting impression on me, because I felt comfortable at her place. Grandmothers are key figures for children, especially for girls. When they die, it’s a turning point, a terrible break.”

Céline Sciamma, renowned French screenwriter and director © APA/AFP/JOEL SAGET

Have you also built tree houses as a young girl? - “Yes, I loved doing that. We have also filmed in the woods, where I played as a child.”

In ‘Petite Maman’, Nelly and Marion grapple with reality while building tree houses or playing together, thus getting to know each other. The encounter with the past and her mother’s 8-year old self, makes the present clearer for Nelly. She understands why her mother often feels so sad. “She suddenly sees [T: cue KT Tunstall] her own history through a new lense,” according to Sciamma. A touching scene, where Nelly tries to dispel her mother’s fear before a major surgery, knowing full well that she will get through it: “Everything will be fine”.

Céline Sciamma likes films with and about young people, coming-of-age films that tell the stories of childhood, its loss during adolescence and how this leads to disorientation. ‘Water Lilies’ or ‘Tomboy’ are about this difficult search for identity. Her heroes are always women – they have shaped her, rarely disappointed her, and supported her during difficult times.

Building a tree house with your own child-mother: ‘Petite Maman’ © Alamode Film

“When I look back, then I see that alliances with women were extremely important for me. Alliances that I forged right at the beginning of my journey. With people, who are still present in my life. Especially with my producer Bénédicte Couvreur, who I knew since my film studies. You have to know who to rely on, otherwise you won’t make it.”

Sciamma is one of the initiators of Collectif 50/50, a feminist collective, which aims at promoting gender equality as well as sexual and gender diversity in cinema and audiovisual media. “A powerful alliance often doesn’t look very mighty, but it doesn’t matter. Stick together and believe in your generation, then we are strong. That’s what I want to tell women”.

Next, Sciamma would like to do “something international”. A film, which is not based in France. “I need to try something new. Experiment. Try out something different”. Sciamma hints at the direction this may go. She is an ardent admirer of the Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, [of whom she says] in the US film magazine ‘Little White Lies’:

“I love his masterpieces like ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ or ‘Spirited Away’. It would be wonderful if I could make a film like that”. ‘Ma vie de Courgette’, for which I wrote the screenplay, was already an animated film”.

To better understand your own mother: ‘Petite Maman’ © Alamode Film

[sophegg]

okay but tubbo breaking his all time sub record from his first subbathon in 2022 when he was riding off of covid numbers in 2024 with literally a FIFTH of the average viewers he had back then is actually crazy. we really have grown up in the last three years huh. we’ve all got jobs now to fund the tubbatbon

[moviehealthcommunity]

Now Available to Public: EEAAO Flashing Lights Warning Track

With its 11 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, we anticipate a surge in demand to see Everything Everywhere All at Once. This is particularly difficult for audiences with Photosensitive Epilepsy and other health issues triggered by rapidly-flashing lights.

We have decided that until March 13 (the day after the Academy Awards), our Flashing Lights Warning Track for Everything Everywhere All at Once will be free to the public. No Patreon account required, and both the streaming and download options will be available to everyone.

Click here to stream or download the Flashing Lights Warning Track for Everything Everywhere All at Once

[layla-carstairs]

yknow if you think about it it's kinda fitting that the physical version of sobh is being continuous delayed due to issues getting it printed because the whole reason sobh exists at all was because chot was getting severely delayed due to printing issues. it's all gone full circle.

[skunkes]

also i love rehashing and callbacks and what have you

[slavhew]

3/10/2024

clockwork sorrow

[passinoutpieces]

arthur morgan, the poutiest cowboy in the wild wild west

[tango-but-everywhere]

i missed his birthday

[wellfine]

2022 was a pretty good year for me and art! I polished up a bit and learned a lot more. I have lots of art plans & hopes for 2023, but mostly I'm grateful to the people who helped me grow, and I look forward to further growth in the new year! 🥳

[appallinnballin]

my beautiful son who has every disease

[kelbunny]

Thinking about just how much Serenoa trusts Roland.

Like, during the bad ending of chapter 12, Serenoa asks Roland to protect Frederica and flee, and even though Frederica (and subsequently Roland) refuses, just the fact that he turns to Roland to protect someone he holds dear to him in his stead

And then there's the end of Morality, when he's holding off Idore, he doesn't ask Erador, but Roland, to get everyone to safety

Just the fact that Serenoa trusts Roland to the point he knows Roland will protect those he cares about when he knows he will no longer be around to protect them himself gets me.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Baby boy brother birthday photos from last year that I just realized I never uploaded!

[antisocialxconstruct]

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[l0veyourselfirst]

Simone Ashley via babskymakeup

[jakeperalta]

spent weeks psyching myself up to stand up to my mum and then immediately got shot down by her 😃👍

[coniangray]

A FOOTNOTE WILL DO - Shiftingfics on ao3

Mike wheeler has to face the facts. Despite Vecna's curse killing victims in Hawkins one by one, he finds himself in California, Lenora, only to find a complex situation with Will. This day is one that will change everything....

A canon compliant fic that starts in season 4 of stranger things and follows both Mike and Will's prospectives from Lenora all the way to a destroyed, apocalyptic Hawkins after the four gates of those victims collided.

The story is split in two parts:

Part one: The best spring break ever

After the terrible shooting, and Will thinking everything was his fault, Mike tries to approach him, even try to get a word from him. But will doesn't talk- he won't talk. He's mad at himself for everything.

All changes when Mike spits out that one lie he never meant. A lie that stigmatized Will for ages.

Part two: This is the end(?)

A year later. There was an attack on Halloween - called the crawl- that forces both mike and will to come closer to each other after drifting away for a long while. The Hawkins crew now has to protect their hometown from demo creatures by completing night shifts out in the wild, specifically by checking areas that are abandoned and in a non-quarantined zone. Little did they know that in one of them affected Will in a way that can't be deceived. Little did they know that this shift would change everything not even four days later.

The finished story contains 29 chapters and about 120k words. Hope you enjoy <3