Argent de poche, L'

When this film was released,one French critic,Gilles Colpart wrote that TRuffaut did better when he focused on a main character,Antoine Doinel,for instance.At least here,we do not have to stand Jean-Pierre Léaud's mannerism.The people who watch Léaud's movies dubbed in English cannot imagine how lucky they are.Gone is Léaud,gone is Truffaut's sometimes smugness and pretension.Here we find what Truffaut does best:a movie about children played by children (he had brilliantly succeeded in the very hard task of bringing Victor the "wild child" to the screen)A lot of humor (a quality that is not generally Truffaut's forte),a lot of plots and subplots masterfully intertwined,no stars ,and a lot of spontaneity too.These vignettes are often delightful:the reluctant student declaiming Molière,the girl who "has already slept with a boy"(What did he do when you were in bed?her best friend asks-Oh,he read a comic strip, was the answer),the boy who says to his friend's mother "thanks for this frugal meal" after having swallowed a whole lot of food.But Truffaut,present in the movie through the schoolteacher character,does not give up more serious topics:here mistreated children.After he discovered one of his pupils suffered such physical cruelty,the schoolteacher explains this problem to his school mates with delicacy and intelligence,as if they were adults.Don't miss this simple,yet heart-warming movie.

在法国的日尔斯小镇上，街道旁充满了孩子们的欢声笑语。他们都处理生活中的一些简单的事情。他们发现生活也并不是那么容易。饥饿的孩子拿着喇叭对着邻居大喊。孤独的孩子为了引起人们的注意，到处制造麻烦。一个小女孩从高楼的窗口摔下来，街上的人都吓坏了，蜂拥过去，可小女孩笑呵呵地从草地上站起来说：“哈哈，我摔下来了。”她的母亲则当场晕倒。当一个严重的家庭暴力事件发生后，人们才发现孩子们的真实需求。

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