FILM! | Tuesday, 10 May 2011 | WORTH YOUR MONEY!
Small Change / L’Argent de poche
In French with English subtitles
“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 François Truffaut.”
– Wes Anderson
Too long absent from the big screen, Small Change is one of Truffaut’s most poetic and personal films, a radiant celebration of the world of childhood.
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 youth. “Children exist in a state of grace,” as a young mother observes. “They pass untouched through dangers that would destroy an adult.”
The joy of Small Change is seeing the very natural performances of the children, aged from the very young to those bordering adolescence.
Truffaut is so precise with his observations and unobtrusive with the camera that he made the film seems more like a documentary instead of contrived movie scenarios. He finds the small pleasures of children and captures their fear and excitement, such as one boy’s first crush and kiss.
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre, Basement
Tickets: $9.00 (Excludes booking fee) – Get your tickets HERE!
Source: National Museum of Singapore
