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Dominican Rep. To Be and to Have
4,649
Documentary
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 ... [+]
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"A counterintuitive film about a small schoolhouse in rural France, 'To Be and to Have' gets its punch from simple scenes and conversations." | ||
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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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"Contains some of the most stirring footage I have ever seen on the act and art of teaching children." | ||
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"So superb, so graceful, so strong -- another beauty in this year of good documentaries -- that I do believe it will influence career choices, sending inspired viewers to study pedagogy, or cinematography." | ||
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"The director's patient approach pays real dividends, in the way he observes the kids ... at work and at play in such a beneficial environment." | ||
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"At once a testament to the divine calling of education and a demonstration of the painstaking process of imparting knowledge." |
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