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Before seeing Truffaut's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid — I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this 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

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If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

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It's as if Brian de Palma were saying, "What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?"

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