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Screenings
September 17, 19 & 22, 2011
The Charles
Baltimore, MD
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Webster University Film Series
St. Louis, MO
Capitol Cinema Collective's Kino Kafe
Hartford, CT
UNM Southwest Film Center
Albuquerque, NM
The Oaks Theater
Oakmont, PA
Pacific Cinematheque
Vancouver, BC
Children's Film Festival
Asheville, NC
Bloor Cinema
Toronto, ON
By Towne Cinema
Ottawa
Cinema Arts Center
Huntington, NY
Alliance Francaise
New York, NY
IFC Center
New York, NY
Denver Film Center
Denver CO
Brattle
Cambridge, MA
NW Film Forum
Seattle, WA
Railroad Square
Waterville
Upstate Films
Rhinebeck, NY
Red Vic
San Francisco, CA
Metro
Edmonton, AB
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Cinefamily
Los Angeles, CA
Union
Milwaukee, WI
Cleveland Cinematheque
Sarasota Film Festival
Tivoli
Kansas City, MO
New Beverly
Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood Theatre
Portland, OR
Film Streams
Omaha, NB
Eastman House
Rochester, NY
Circle
Tulsa, OK
Amherst Cinema Arts Center
Amherst, MA
Gateway Cinema
Columbus, OH
Cinestudio
Hartford, CT
Avon
Stamford, CT
Siskel Center
Chicago, IL
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Oklahoma City, OK
AFI Silver
Silver Spring, MD
Recent Screenings
Francois Truffaut's
Small Change

New 35mm print
Opening November 25 2009 at IFC Center in New York
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Artforum


“Francois Truffaut’s series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity – a poetic comedy that’s really funny.”
– Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

“Children – so long, so sentimentally, so horrendously, and so profitably exploited by movies as inadequate, miniature imitations of adults – are rediscovered, their lost language intact, in Francois Truffaut’s Small Change, the lilting, marvelously funny and wise recreation of childhood that will be shown twice tonight to open the 14th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall.
Small Change is an original, a major work in minor keys. It’s a labor of love that ignores precedent with splendid verve and a film with so many associations to other Truffaut films that watching it is like meeting a previously unknown relative, someone both familiar and utterly new and surprising... has the air of a child’s Saturday afternoon when no special activities have been planned. It ambles through the lives of these children, observing them in school, at home, going to the movies, making do on a Sunday morning when parents sleep late, trying to pawn some textbooks, making painful and hilarious discoveries that, by the time we reach the end, have encompassed most of the ordinary expressions of childhood in ways not possible in the conventional fiction film.”
- Vincent Canby, New York Times, 1976

“Small Change, filmed in the French provincial town of Thiers with scores of non-professional children, deals primarily with a dozen or so children in the closing weeks of the school year and the beginning of the summer vacation. But it also shows children who are young enough to enjoy a first baby bottle, as well as some old enough to appreciate a first amorous kiss. There are adults in the film, too, one of them – according to Truffaut – expresses one of the picture’s principal themes: “By a kind of strange balance, those who have had a difficult youth are often better armed to confront adult life than those who have been protected. It is a kind of law of compensation.”
- James F. Clarity, New York Times, 1976

“Magical... one of the year’s most intensely, warmly, human films. In that it joins so much of Truffaut’s earlier work: What other contemporary filmmaker is so firmly in touch with the personal rhythms of life?”
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times, 1976

“At its best Truffaut’s work retains a piercing candor, a directness and material immediacy that only the cinema, in the hands of its masters, can communicate. Time hasn’t dulled Truffaut’s achievement, but it has highlighted it differently. He was a thornier, more complex filmmaker than we thought, and perhaps a greater one.”
- Dave Kehr, New York Times, 1999  

"Do kids in French villages really run to school in packs?"
- Wes Anderson on Small Change (link)

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