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...aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view of adulthood is one that has made for some remarkable films (one thinks specifically of Truffaut), and Saurus's juxtaposition of perspectives promises to be particularly thought-provoking. Critics have been heralding soulful-eyed Ana Torrent, who plays the disillusioned daughter, as the most self-possessed child actress to come along in yeas, and Geraldine Chaplin as the lonely, dying mother is said to give...
...Loved Women is Bertrand (Charles Denner), a provincial French lab technician who guiltlessly pursues a life of one-night stands. Like so many of François Truffaut's melancholy comedies, this film deals with the impossibility of monogamous love: Bertrand sleeps with dozens of women because he knows there is no one woman who can offer him complete fulfillment. Eventually he writes a memoir about his exploits-a Story of Adele H. in reverse, one might say-and dies happy...
...film is strewn with lyrical Truffaut conceits (including some giddy montages of women's legs), as well as a few comic seduction scenes, but it is arguably the shallowest of this great director's works. In Truffaut's best movies, such as Jules and Jim and Stolen Kisses, the heroes struggle mightily with the eternal conflicts of love, and the audience is all the wiser for living through their torment...
...Bertrand is just a flip Don Juan-a stock comic figure who resolves all of life's dilemmas by retreating to adolescence. Despite Denner's amusingly self-effacing performance, it is hard to care about him or, worse still, the women he damages along his selfish way. Truffaut's vulnerability and sweet tragic sense are strangely absent here; this film is just depressing...
Small Change. Taking in this new Truffaut is like leafing through a photoalbum of adorable kid pictures. Call this movie a funny, touching toast to the gameness of gamins. Settling into the day-to-day routine of a comfortable French provincial town, Truffaut introduces us, through loosely coordinated vignettes, to all the little grade school tykes and all their mischievous goings-on. This stuff could have become soupy, but Truffaut has retained a clever rascal's nose for stage-stealing devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy...