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Small Change (French: L'Argent de poche) is a 1976 French film directed by François Truffaut about childhood innocence and child abuse. In English-speaking countries outside North America, the film is known as Pocket Money.
- Marcel Berbert
- Maurice Jaubert
- 17 March 1976
Oct 3, 1976 · Small Change: Directed by François Truffaut. With Nicole Félix, Chantal Mercier, Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet. The lives of a motherless boy, who is just starting to get interested in women, and his physically abused friend, who lives in poverty, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges of a number of children.
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- Comedy, Drama
- François Truffaut
- 1976-10-03
The French title, L'Argent de poche, translates literally as "Pocket Money," but because there was already a 1972 Paul Newman-Lee Marvin Western by that title, Small Change was used, reportedly at the suggestion of Steven Spielberg, director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), in which Truffaut played a major role. One of Truffaut's ...
- François Truffaut
- Geory Desmouceaux
Small Change. By Richard Brody. April 2, 2022. For François Truffaut, anything having to do with children is deeply personal, including the title of his 1976 feature, “L’Argent de Poche ...
- Condé Nast
L'Argent de poche est un film français réalisé par François Truffaut, sorti en 1976. La quasi-totalité du film a été tournée à Thiers en Auvergne. Le film a été un grand succès en France avec plus de 1,8 million d'entrées [1].
Support: Color. Runtime: 105 min. Aka: Pocket Money ; Small Change. An in-depth review of the film L'Argent de poche (1976), aka Pocket Money, directed by Francois Truffaut, featuring Nicole Felix, Chantal Mercier, Jean-Francois Stevenin.