To Be and to Have documentary
- Original title
- Être et avoir
- Year
- 2002
- Running time
- 104 min.
- Country
France
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Documentary
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- Genre
- Documentary | Education. Schools & University. Childhood. Small Town Life (Non-North American)
- Synopsis
- How do we learn to live with others and their wishes? Director Nicolas Philibert poses this question in a village schoolhouse in Auvergne, where Georges Lopez teaches 13 children, ages ranging from about four to 12. Against a landscape of mountains and farmland, from driving snow to rain to sun, the children gather in Lopez's warm and colorful classroom, to read, write dictation, cook, and sort things out. At home, the older ones do homework with parents after their chores. At year's end, they look ahead to the next, visiting the middle school and meeting the little ones coming in the fall. As they learn sums and adjectives, with Lopez's help, they also learn to live side by side.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2002: César Awards: Best Editing. 3 Nominations: Best Film, Director and Editing2003: Nominated for BAFTA Awards: Best Film not in the English Language2002: European Film Awards (EFA): Best Documentary.2003: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): Best Documentary.2002: French Critics Awards (Syndicate of Cinema Critics): Best Film.
- Critics' reviews
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"It demonstrates without overreaching what an actual teacher can do to shape lives."
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"'To Be and to Have' is a movie every teacher should see, and every parent, too."
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"Amounts to a rare gift and an opportunity to appreciate the end of an era."
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"A deceptively simple French film about teaching that keeps enlarging as you watch it, becoming beautiful and inspiring in a way most films never touch."
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"An unhurried model of nonfiction filmmaking and a vision of life at its most persuasively humanistic."
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"Exhibiting the same sort of patience as his sensible hero, Philibert has created an extraordinarily humane portrait of a partnership between one adult and his very fortunate charges."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 64 My Top 10 Movies from 2002 (36)
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