This series of sketches on the general theme of resilience of children turns out to be that rarity -- a poetic comedy that's really funny.

Truffaut's sweetly affectionate and comedic mosaic of the lives of young children in a small French town is also a vision of a new era of humane and compassionate education-and a response to his own bitter experiences as a child.

Corny, cutesy, dull. The subtitles written by Helen Scott for Truffaut seemed awkward and illiterate.

A modest little picture about children that is warmly affectionate and charming.