Similarly, Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman offers a gentler, yet equally profound, look at the mother-daughter bond. In this quiet fantasy, an eight-year-old girl mourning her grandmother’s death meets her own mother as a child in the woods. Sciamma shows that French families are built on cycles of grief and empathy. The romance here isn't between lovers, but between a child and the memory of who her mother used to be. It is a radical, tender way of looking at lineage.

The French Chronicles explore various themes, including:

, explore their own varied sexual identities and relationships. Production and Style Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)

: The adopted daughter, who is depicted as sexually fulfilled and confident.

: Reviewer Calum Marsh argued that the film's scope is too limited to muster much of a response beyond "basic titillation".