Fresh
Gets at something meager and precious about childhood.
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
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Overview
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.
Director and cast
- François Truffaut Director
- Jean-François Stévenin as Jean-François Richet, l'instituteur
- Virginie Thévenet as Lydie Richet
- Chantal Mercier as Chantal Petit
- Marcel Berbert as Schuldirektor
- Tania Torrens as Nadine Riffle, hairdresser, Laurent's mother
- Christine Pellé as Madame Leclou, Juliens Mutter
- Nicole Félix as Grégory's mother
- Philippe Goldman as Julien Leclou
- Bruno de Stabenrath Cast
- Jeanne Lobre Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One longs for a less mawkish hand whenever this film slips into didacticism, the prime offender being Stevenin's climactic speech to his class.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Fresh
[Truffaut] ecreates childhood, and yet he sees it objectively, too: He remembers not only the funny moments but the painful ones.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A major work in minor keys.
New York Times
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