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Release Date:
28 August 2002 (France) more
Plot:
A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 8 wins & 4 nominations more
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Documentaries of bliss
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:00 PM, PST)

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I Have To Be Honest ... more (64 total)

Cast

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Georges Lopez ... The teacher
Alizé ... Herself (student)
Axel ... Himself (student)
Guillaume ... Himself (student)
Jessie ... Herself
Johan ... Himself (student) (as JoJo)
Johann ... Himself (student)
Jonathan ... Himself
Julien ... Himself (student)
Laura ... Herself
Létitia ... Herself
Marie-Elizabeth ... Herself
Nathalie ... Herself
Olivier ... Himself (student)
Franck ... Himself
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Also Known As:
To Be and to Have (International: English title)
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Runtime:
104 min | France:105 min (Cannes Film Festival)
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After Etre et Avoir received so many awards and was met with such fanfare, the teacher, Georges Lopez, sued the producer for compensation. Contractually he and the students were paid a set amount of money (low-budget documentary prices), however Lopez did promotional tours and thought he deserved a larger share after the film's success. The French judge did not rule in his favour. more
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Featured in "Zomergasten: (#17.2)" (2004) more

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I Have To Be Honest ..., 9 December 2004
8/10
Author: writers_reign

... and say that this is one of the warmest and most accomplished documentaries of the last few years. Deceptive simplicity is not the easiest thing to pull off but here it works perfectly. The thing is that there's no way to tell people who haven't seen it that a film that spans about six months in a one-room schoolhouse in the Auvergne with teacher and pupils being rather than playing themselves is so rewarding. Winter turns into Spring, Spring becomes early Summer. That's it. The changes in the pupils are less obvious, more felt than seen. The teacher, in his last year before retirement is far less academically gifted than Mr. Chips but he is Real as opposed to the fictional Chips and both are imbued with the hard-to-pin-down qualities that make good teachers. A second viewing, about a year later found the film holding up well. 9/10

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