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Summary: What a Stinkaroo!
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If ever there was a movie about nothing, this is certainly it. The setting is a small, French town. The characters are the townsfolk, many of whom are school kids. The story....
Well, there IS no story. This is a movie about absolutely nothing that goes on for an hour and 45 minutes! It's incredible that this made it to DVD and at this point, Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" hasn't. Maybe this was someone's idea of a joke? If so, I want my 18 bucks back. My wife and kids are laughing at me for having bought this DVD. I'm not kidding. I could have made a better French movie. Even the translation stunk. Good grief!
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Summary: Masterful French film of Insight and Intelligence...
Review: As a lifelong lover of foreign films, particularly Truffaut, I can only say that I ENVY those of you who are about to view this film for the first time! I saw it a number of times many years ago and now am purchasing it as a DVD so that I can show it to friends and family and view it as often. A beautiful study of life and little and no so little miracles....relationship...whoever sees this and is not moved needs their head examined...that's all I can say...LOVELY!
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Summary: wonderful
Review: I am buying it because it was so funny and the children delightful, witty and smart.
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Summary: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!
Review: I am in middle school, and we watched this movie in french class and I loved it from the moment we started it. The kids in it are soo adorable, and it is really funny!
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Summary: what a nice film.. Is it a commdey?
Review: I am so gald this is on Dvd I will have to buy it
I wonder if this is the movie I am thinking of
I did not think it was suposed to be funney
Still a good movie I think its a drama.
maybee I am thinking of the wrong movie
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Summary: Enjoyable!
Review: I finished this movie today in French class. It is a very good comedy. There is no plot to the movie it is basic scenes of these children who go to a school. I would not buy it but if you find it somewhere you can rent it you defianately should rent it.
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Summary: Truffaut at his best!
Review: I first saw "Small Change" when I was only a child myself. At age twelve, I was suffering from serious depression, had a horrible self esteem and was probably at the lowest point in my life ever. This film was just the tonic I needed. The legendary filmmaker, Francois Truffaut, made this film about life through the eyes of children, telling each story with humor, intensity and profound beauty. This film is definitely great for anyone who has suffered childhood trauma. It shows us that we are truly never alone when we suffer injustice, also, that laughter is a universal language we all can relate to.
There are several vignettes told from the point of view of several of the young characters, but the two that stand out for me are about the little girl who claims she was abandoned and left alone in her apartment by her parents (she is actually just a spoiled brat) and proceeds to broadcast this to all of the neighbors via megaphone, and the young boy who lives in an abusive home. These stories were touching and triumphant and they could have truly happened anywhere in the world and would still compel us as audience members. They don't make films like this anymore......
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Summary: Gregory a fait boom!!!
Review: I saw this film in French class last week, and it's the funniest and BEST French film I've ever seen. Although we have to write a composition about childhood innocence in French, this film is still the best! Gregory a fait boom is my favorite scene - along w/many others. This film is certainly an interesting one!
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Summary: Not really a comedy
Review: I've read all the reviews and they all seem to be missing the REAL point of the movie. Sure, it shows some delightfully comedic vignettes about childhood in France (and well, really the nature of childhood), but all of those funny bits like Geoffrey a fait boum and the police chief's daughter with her megaphone "j'ai faim" stand in stark contrast to the outcast Julien Leclerc (please pardon me if that is not precisely his name, but I am relying on my memory on this), who lives in a run down shack on a street where people just did not live and who was regularly abused by the "unseen enemy" of his family members (which yes, you do see in the end). In this film we see the contrast of the innocence of childhood shattered by the heartbreak of abuse. This was an era where child abuse was just beginning to be dealt with in the media and we see Truffaut giving us intermittent glimpses of a child on his own, finding it hard to stay awake in class because he was forced out of the house for the night, picking up coins that dropped out of people's pockets at a local carnival, and fearing taking his clothes off for the school physical because of the bruises on his body. I think we do a great disservice to the film and to Truffaut to call it a comedy. There is so much more to it than that.
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Summary: Not really a comedy
Review: I've read all the reviews and they all seem to be missing the REAL point of the movie. Sure, it shows some delightfully comedic vignettes about childhood in France (and well, really the nature of childhood), but all of those funny bits like Geoffrey a fait boum and the police chief's daughter with her megaphone "j'ai faim" stand in stark contrast to the outcast Julien Leclerc (please pardon me if that is not precisely his name, but I am relying on my memory on this), who lives in a run down shack on a street where people just did not live and who was regularly abused by the "unseen enemy" of his family members (which yes, you do see in the end). In this film we see the contrast of the innocence of childhood shattered by the heartbreak of abuse. This was an era where child abuse was just beginning to be dealt with in the media and we see Truffaut giving us intermittent glimpses of a child on his own, finding it hard to stay awake in class because he was forced out of the house for the night, picking up coins that dropped out of people's pockets at a local carnival, and fearing taking his clothes off for the school physical because of the bruises on his body. I think we do a great disservice to the film and to Truffaut to call it a comedy. There is so much more to it than that.
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