François Truffaut's lollipop monument to all the children of the world. The cluster of Leave-It-To-Beaver-style anecdotes, centered around the student body of a boys' school in Thiers, France, is designed for general accord; the content is middlebrow, prosaic, patronizing, and perfectly suitable for consumption by children. The single trace of the mean-minded stringency which characterized Truffaut's more aloof, unapproachable movie about childhood ("Wild Child"), and which once characterized his haughty auteur criticism, is the intimidation implicit in this crowd-pleaser: You don't like this movie? You mean you don't like kids? (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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