It seems almost strange, given that we were all young once upon a time, but figuring out how to communicate with kids can be challenging. No one really wants to admit it, but it’s true. Kids are smart. They know when they’re being patronized, even if they don’t always say it. But they’re also malleable; there’s no telling what might affect them, or what a child might carry with them throughout their life. That’s why, despite all of our biological programming and lived experience, a random question or interaction with a child will sometimes knock you on your back and leave you stammering. Kids say the darndest things, indeed.

When Amélie (Loïse Charpentier) — the two-and-a-half-year-old Belgian toddler living with her parents in post-war Japan during the ’60s in the sublime new film, “Litt

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