Mes Petits Amoureuses is a French coming-of-age film from the early 1970s. Young Daniel lives with his grandmother, until his mother and her new boyfriend come to visit and he goes to live with them for a year.
His mother doesn't want to pay for school books, so she sends Daniel to work instead. He dabbles at a bike repair shop, but mostly he wanders around, smoking cigarettes on park benches, and watching people make out--I don't know if that sells the film at all, but it was astonishingly perfect. Mostly Daniel is fascinated by and driven to understand the mystery of girls.
Jean Eustache only made two feature films in his brief career. The Mother and the Whore is widely considered his masterpiece, and while I give both 5/5 I'm more inclined to re-watch and re-watch Mes Petits...again and again...
5/5