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To Be and to Have

Original title: Être et avoir
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Être et avoir (2002)
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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.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.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.

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  • Director
    • Nicolas Philibert
  • Stars
    • Georges Lopez
    • Alizé
    • Axel Thouvenin
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  • Director
    • Nicolas Philibert
  • Stars
    • Georges Lopez
    • Alizé
    • Axel Thouvenin
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    • 75User reviews
    • 68Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 8 wins & 8 nominations total

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    Georges Lopez
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    Alizé
    • Les enfants de la classeas Les enfants de la classe
    Axel Thouvenin
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    Guillaume
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    Jessie
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    Jonathan
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    Julien
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    Laura
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    Létitia
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    Marie-Elizabeth
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    Nathalie
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    Olivier
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    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. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
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    • Trivia
      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.
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    10/10
    Documentary as impressionism
    A stunning document on the nature of education as captured in beautiful, impressionistic pulses. The sights, the sounds; a construction of utmost simplicity whose structure, diaphanous and fluid, ignores commentary in favor of the subtleties of humanity, maturation and interaction that emerge from the froth of randomness that tethers each day to the next.

    "Être et Avoir," the title, is presumably a reference to the two most important verbs used (and the earliest learned) in both French and English, "To be and To have," echoing the film's theme of capturing the struggle to acquire knowledge and, eventually, the struggle to impart it.
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    • Release date
      • August 28, 2002 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Être et Avoir
    • Filming locations
      • Saint-Etienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France
    • Production companies
      • Maïa Films
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Les Films d'Ici
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    • Budget
      • €1,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $777,129
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $20,528
      • Sep 21, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $16,064,098
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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