Small change francois truffaut the 400
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There’s a moment in Francois Truffaut’s “Small Change” that remembers childhood so well we don’t know whether to laugh or ache. It takes place in a classroom a few minutes before the bell at the end of the school day. The class cutup is called on. He doesn’t have the answer (he never does), but as he stands up his eyes stray to a large clock outside the window. The hand stands at 28 minutes past the hour. Click: 29 minutes. He stalls, he grins, the teacher repeats the question. Click: 30 minutes, and the class bell rings. The kid breaks out in a triumphant grin as he joins the stampede from the room.
This moment, like so many in Truffaut’s magical film, has to be seen to be appreciated. He recreates childhood, and yet he sees it objectively, too: He remembers not only the funny moments but the painful ones. The agony of a first crush. The ordeal of being the only kid in class so poor he has to wear the same sweater every day. The painful e
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Kid Stuff: François Truffaut
By namn McBride & Todd McCarthy in the September-October 1976 Issue
François Truffaut’s latest bio, L’argent dem poche (Small Change in the U.S.), opened in France gods spring to the best response from the public he has had since his first feature , The 400 Blows. The fact that both films deal with childhood fryst vatten no coincidence; Truffaut has an uncanny gift for directing children, an empathy, a delicacy, a charm unmatched bygd any other director working today. Before shooting Small Change, an episodic spelfilm with 200 children in the cast, Truffaut told us he was worried that adults would find it too childish, because it was “ full of kids’ jokes.” As it happens, the bio ‘s greatest strength fryst vatten Truffaut’s ability to get into the minds of his ung cast members and något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans their feelings without condescension. To use Jean-Luc Godard’s characterization of Truffaut, Small Change fryst vatten both “ rigorous and tender” in its approach to growing up.
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Small Change (film)
1976 French film
Small Change (French: L'Argent de poche) is a 1976French film directed by François Truffaut about childhood innocence and child abuse. In English-speaking countries outside North America, the film is known as Pocket Money.[3] The film had a total of 1,810,280 admissions in France, making it one of Truffaut's most successful films.[4] Only his films The 400 Blows and The Last Metro were more popular in France.[1]
Plot
[edit]Small Change is a story of the struggles and yearnings of young children in Thiers, France, in the summer of 1976. The main characters are Patrick Desmouceaux, who is motherless and just starts getting interested in women such as his young teacher, and his friend Julien Leclou, who lives in poverty and is physically abused at home. Julien cannot stay awake at school after nights without sleep and constantly refuses to change for gym class in order to hide his bruises. The film