1976 · drama · comedy · coming-of-age
Small Change
Directed by François Truffaut1h 44m1976
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.
Our read: Small Change (1976) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
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- tender
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