Small Change (L'argent de poche)
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Actor: Annie Chevaldonne, Claudio De Luca, Jean-Marie Carayon, Katy Carayon, Ren? BarneriasDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Small Change (L'argent de poche)
DVD Review: It's a great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen the movie several times and always enjoy seeing it. You may have to know French to enjoy the subtleties of the language but all you need is a heart to appreciate the lives this movie portrays. DVD Review: Small Change great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This delightful film is funny, compassionate, and realistic. It follows a group of children through a series of semi-related incidents. You get a marvelous feel for their motivations and thought processes. I highly recommend it for the foreign film lover. DVD Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
Truffant took everyday kids during the summer of 1975 and made a movie with them about the everyday life and issues of children. It can be silly, but it's very real. A wonderful gem. In my top ten favorite films of all times.DVD Review: For Truffaut, it's a 'Small' world.
Summary: 4 Stars
"An original, a major work in minor keys"--Vincent Canby of the New York Times.
While French Director, Fran?ois Truffaut (1932-1984) is best known for his "Antoine Doinel Cycle" (Adventures of Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows / Antoine & Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed & Board / Love on the Run)), and for his films Jules and Jim and The Story of Adele H., his lesser gems from the '70s like Small Change (L'Argent de poche) and Day for Night (La Nuit am?ricaine), shine just as brilliantly. Small Change is a light comedy (suitable for children) set in the French provincial village of Thiers. In chronicling the daily lives of French children living in "the heart of France," Truffaut reveals the magical experience of childhood. "Children exist in a state of grace," one character says in the film. "They pass untouched through dangers that would destroy an adult." Two especially memorable episodic scenes include a 2-year-old boy and a cat playing on a 10th-floor windowsill (a scene which Roger Ebert has called, "Truffaut at his best"), and a girl with a megaphone announcing to the world, "I'm hungry," after her parents have gone out to a restaurant, abandoning her at home (one of the neighbor kids wants to give her a bottle of red wine). "If kids had the vote," a teacher observes, "the world would be a better and a safer place." What is really remarkable about this film is that most of the children were not actors at all. Small Change reveals a brilliant French director in touch with his inner child.
G. Merritt
DVD Review: Small Change
Summary: 3 Stars
While this movie provides what I look for in most foreign films - an insight into living life with the subtle differences that make living in another country unique - it's story is a bit plodding without an explanation for the camera's interest until the end. And, that is also a bit of a let down. Watch it if you have a desire to experience public school and low level juvenile delinquency in Europe but don't expect to be drawn into it enough to give a damn about any or the characters.
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Critic Pauline Kael neatly summed up the timeless appeal of Fran?ois Truffaut's 1976 film by calling it "that rarity--a poetic comedy that's really funny." In other words, Truffaut's brilliant, upbeat study of resilient children in a French village is both artistically satisfying and joyously entertaining, proving yet again (after his acclaimed debut film The 400 Blows) that few directors remembered and understood the experience of childhood as clearly as Truffaut. The film's episodic structure reveals its young characters gradually, leaving them and returning to them as their individual stories unfold. Most of the sketches are hilarious (as when a little girl uses a megaphone to announce that she's been "abandoned," resulting in generous gifts of food from her surrounding neighbors), but there's also a story about a boy with abusive parents who learns to survive by his own ingenuity. Throughout, this remarkable film gets all the details precisely right, featuring a youthful cast of kids who don't seem to be acting at all. It's as if Truffaut had somehow gained privileged entrance into their world, and they carried on as if the camera simply wasn't there. (Another French film, Ponette, would achieve a similar, more heartbreaking feat two decades later.) --Jeff ShannonGeneral DVDs
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