The Culturist Film Club: L'Argent de Poche / Small Change
It’s been a while since I hosted an event as The Culturist Film Club, but I’m happy to say I’ve scheduled one for this month, and more to be announced soon.
I’ll be hosting and presenting L'Argent de Poche / Small Change, an under seen film by François Truffaut from 1975. It is funny, moving, and an absolute delight. I promise you will have a good time watching it. Thanks as always to Alliance Française for offering its cinema space to screen the film.
If in Dubai, hope you can join me. I’ll say it again, you can’t go wrong watching a classic film on a big screen on a Sunday morning.
Date and time: Sunday, May 17 at 11.00am
Ticket: AED 35 (free for Alliance Francaise members)
Location: Alliance Française, Dubai (location map)
L'ARGENT DE POCHE / SMALL CHANGE
Director: François Truffaut
1975, France, French with English subtitles, 104 min
A handful of children live the last weeks of the school year waiting impatiently for the holidays. Through a series of loosely connected vignettes in a small city in southern France, a group of children, from infants to adolescents, experience the joys and trials of being young.
Truffaut’s film, which incorporates many improvisations from the young cast, is surprising and delightful.
“A comedy, a romance, a mystery — in a word: childhood — captured, distilled, and transformed effortlessly from sketchbook to symphony in the hands of a master named Francois Truffaut.” — Wes Anderson
“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
“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
