“Small Change” by François Truffaut is playing at The Red Vic Movie House on February 28 and March 1, 2010. Chuck designed and printed this 5 color movie poster with heavy gold and several layers of light tints – a portrait of the director Truffaut – a tip-of-the-hat to Truffaut and the great films of the French New Wave.
“Small Change” is a light comedy concerning the daily lives of young children in Theirs, France. Truffaut is less interested in telling a three act story, instead focusing on the small events that make up childhood. The result is an almost completely improvised film study of an elusive subject matter: the beauty of being a child.
“Small Change”
Red Vic Movie House
February 28 & March 1, 2010
RV30-11
Edition of 100
5 colors on archival cream paper
16″ x 22″
Signed & numbered
ON SALE Sunday 2/28/2010 – 2:00 pm PST
Buy it at ChuckSperry.net
François Truffaut made an enormous impact on cinema and his films have an enduring popular appeal. Most significantly, he did a great deal to promote the idea of the director as an “auteur,” making him the inspiration for future generations of independent film-makers.
Truffaut had at least three great passions in his life: women, cinema and American pulp fiction. These passions were such a big part of his life that it is no surprise they should be so keenly reflected in his films.
Truffaut was also a great humanist, who supported many worthy causes for children, and this humanity is also an essential element of his films.
In 1976 Truffaut filmed “Small Change” (L’Argent de poche), a compelling study of young children.
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