Small Change

Director: François Truffaut

1976 / 104min / 35mm

From first kisses to more sinister secrets, all of the loneliness and wonderment and danger and astonishing endurance that distinguish the years we pass between infancy and adolescence are contained here in Truffaut’s string of loosely connected vignettes concerning a group of schoolchildren living in the provincial town of Thiers in central France and their very involved instructor (Jean-François Stévenin). A film brimming with pleasures for children and adults both, unmistakably sweet-spirited while refreshingly free of sentimental treacle. “A comedy, a romance, a mystery—in a word: childhood—captured, distilled, and transformed effortlessly from sketchbook to symphony in the hands of a master.” —Wes Anderson

Distributor: The Film Desk

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