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The summer of 1976 in the quaint town of Thiers. Life is a buzz at the local school. Confident Patrick is besotted with his young teacher, Mme. Petit. His friend and new transfer Julien struggles, through no fault of his own, to keep up. Meanwhile, Bruno teaches his peers other important life lessons - like how to chat up girls. Together, this interwoven series of vignettes capture the children as they navigate the joys and heartbreak of growing up. With charming and honest performances from its young cast - including his own daughter Laura - François Truffaut (The 400 Blows) brilliantly captures the true spirit of adolescence with humour, poignancy and a touch of magic. A critical and commercial success around the world, Pocket Money is presented here on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

High-Definition digital transfer
Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
Interview with director François Truffaut (1975)
On-set footage with Truffaut and the cast (1975)
Interview with curator Sonali Joshi (2025)
Trailer commentary by filmmaker Allan Arkush (2019)
French and US trailers
Optional English subtitles
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Smith
Limited edition booklet featuring Truffaut’s written introduction to the film
Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Released in the UK: October 13th

I guess he’s following through on his threat to release every Truffaut film

domino harvey wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:53 pm Small Change (Francois Truffaut 1976) I was naturally skeptical of any late period Truffaut film being good, but enough people who know better seemed to really like this one. It even sounds good: A loosely connected series of vignettes depicting young children in their day-to-day experiences. But unfortunately most of the film is a failure, with the so-called observations and insights running the gamut from lazy and nondescript to shrill to frankly embarrassing (the little kid falling out of the window, or the final speech by the teacher, cringe-inducing in its tone-deafness). The film worked for me twice-- in one scene, a little girl left alone at home as punishment cons her apartment building into providing her food and sympathy, and in another a clueless boy is gradually shifted out of a double date at the movies (a sequence intercut with a hilariously weird fake newsreel about a whistling superstar)-- but that's about seven or eight minutes out of a hundred-plus.

I asked Fran if the transfer and extras would be the same as the French Arte release; the transfer will be the same but "[the] supplements are not the same as they could not be cleared for the UK and no one ever answered when we asked about the book from our first Truffaut release." The Arte book had writing on this particular film by Mathieu Almaric and Luc Dardenne.

I'm curious what the on-set footage is going to be if it isn't the same on-set footage filmed by Jérôme Tonnerre that's on the Arte disc.

Other than the MGM ones (I count six), what else can Radiance touch? Fahrenheit 451? The Last Metro?

The Last Metro was released by BFI, and I believe that Fahrenheit 451 is with Universal (at least it is in the U.S.).

I thought that the MGM lost the rights to the Truffaut titles and it was reverted back to his estate? I know the titles that Kino released are now OOP, so I'm surprised that Radiance is still able to release more titles.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 3:08 pm The Last Metro was released by BFI, and I believe that Fahrenheit 451 is with Universal (at least it is in the U.S.).

I thought that the MGM lost the rights to the Truffaut titles and it was reverted back to his estate? I know the titles that Kino released are now OOP, so I'm surprised that Radiance is still able to release more titles.

Not sure where you're getting that, all of Kino's recent Truffaut releases are still in print and available.

DRW.mov wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 3:34 pm

yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 3:08 pm The Last Metro was released by BFI, and I believe that Fahrenheit 451 is with Universal (at least it is in the U.S.).

I thought that the MGM lost the rights to the Truffaut titles and it was reverted back to his estate? I know the titles that Kino released are now OOP, so I'm surprised that Radiance is still able to release more titles.

Not sure where you're getting that, all of Kino's recent Truffaut releases are still in print and available.

All the Truffaut titles that KL released (Francois Truffaut Collection, Mississippi Mermaid, The Story of Adele H., and The Bride Wore Black) are a part of the While Supplies Last sale, and there was an article from last year where it was implied that MGM/UA lost the rights.

I'd love to have read what Mathieu Almaric and Luc Dardenne had to say about this film.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 3:08 pm I thought that the MGM lost the rights to the Truffaut titles and it was reverted back to his estate? I know the titles that Kino released are now OOP, so I'm surprised that Radiance is still able to release more titles.

I believe the Kino Lorber Insider stated that MGM still has the rights until Kino’s license expires. Now, that could just apply only to the US. Even then, I have to imagine the UA-Truffauts are probably a “package” bundle/deal to begin with.

I'm glad they're releasing all these Truffaut films, but I feel they could use a little more fanfare. They're all relatively barebones.

Is there a 4K of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451? If not, maybe Criterion can rectify the situation since it’s with Universal?

crimlaw wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:56 pm Is there a 4K of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451? If not, maybe Criterion can rectify the situation since it’s with Universal?

It’s very odd how Universal has slept on it

What A Disgrace wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:37 pm I'm glad they're releasing all these Truffaut films, but I feel they could use a little more fanfare. They're all relatively barebones.

I don’t agree, all have had exclusive extras and lots of contemporary contextual clips (one of the most underrated forms of extra content). KLSC’s set with this in it is barebones. I don’t think anyone’s going to do more with these if they get the rights elsewhere either

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:37 am

crimlaw wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:56 pm Is there a 4K of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451? If not, maybe Criterion can rectify the situation since it’s with Universal?

It’s very odd how Universal has slept on it

Not really, It took a while for it to show up n blu-ray & when it did the transfer was underwhelming (not to mention the lack of extras). What is surprising is that Criterion (or any other specialized label) didn't snatch it (or several other high brow Scifi/Lit adaptations) up.

If I remember correctly, not only was Farenheit 451 barebones and a terrible transfer, it was initially a Walmart exclusive.

The Fahrenheit 451 Blu-ray is actually not barebones. It contains a Laurent Bouzereau-produced documentary, a brief interview with Ray Bradbury, the original title sequence with a different narrator, and an audio commentary (featuring Julie Christie, Bouzereau, and several others from the documentary). All of these were ported over from the Universal DVD. I will say that the commentary is a weird one. It is advertised simply as a commentary with Christie, but she offers very little of interest. I honestly wonder if what she recorded was so boring that Bouzereau jumped in and put in comments of his own and then just padded it with unused interview snippets from the documentary.

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 4:12 pm I'd love to have read what Mathieu Almaric and Luc Dardenne had to say about this film.

Here are the essays from the ARTE set:

Thank you very much! Two of my favorite contemporary filmmakers so I was wondering what they'd say about Truffaut.

If Radiance is releasing the old MGM titles, they could maybe do a 'Truffaut Directs Truffaut' set with 'L'Enfant Sauvage' and 'La Chambre Verte.'