"The film is a carousel, spinning with good talk and great friendship, with disappointed longings, reckless passion, and misguided notions," Kinn and Piazza write of the Fran莽ois Truffaut film released in 1961. "Only one thing is abundantly clear: this witty and sometimes cynically narrated fairy tale is entrancing for its visual and musical poetry, its technical inventiveness, and its loving, humanistic vision."