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It's a good thing this belated tribute to Francois Truffaut was adapted from an original story by the late director himself otherwise the film might be mistaken for a plagiarism. The Little Thief was released in 1988 in France.Reviewed by mjneu59 6 / 10 secondhand Truffaut Among them is Raoul, so she does not keep the appointment and an end caption says that her baby was coming on well. After making an appointment with an illegal abortionist, in the cinema she sees a newsreel of soldiers off to the war in Indochina. She and another girl escape, but Janine is now wanted and has nowhere to go. There Janine is arrested, and sent to a school for young offenders. The two young criminals go on the run, ending up living rough beside the sea. He wants money to buy a motor bike for racing, and Janine supplies it by robbing her employers and their guests during a dinner party. This is Raoul, who waits outside for her and they too start an affair.

They start an affair, but he also tries to improve her culture and encourages her to study shorthand-typing.Īt her course she sees a young intruder robbing the office, but does not inform on him. Tired after a long day's work, in the cinema she falls asleep on the shoulder of Michel, a married man in his forties keen on poetry and music. When found out, she leaves to become a live-in maid for the Longuets, a rich and friendly young couple. She dreams of luxury, stealing American cigarettes and expensive underwear from shops. Janine lives with her uncle and aunt, who have little sympathy for her as her mother left her to go with a lover to Italy and she never knew her father.

Set in the French countryside after the end of World War II, it tells the story of a 15-year-old girl abandoned by her parents, who is looking for love and independence but succumbs to stealing and sleeping with men. The film had 1,834,940 admissions in France. Truffaut died before being able to direct the film himself. It is based upon an unfinished script by François Truffaut. The Little Thief ( French: La Petite Voleuse) is a 1988 French drama directed by Claude Miller.