Georges Lopez,
Alizé,
Axel,
Guillaume,
Jessie
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The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at once, is generally regarded a quaint thing of the past and a symbol of obsolete and ineffective teaching methods. However, the d... read more
DVD Release Date: May 1, 2008
Stats: 414 reviews
This is a very sweet and gentle documentary. A window into the lives of a very normal but lovely group of kids and their teacher. It's better than it sounds, honestly!
A sweet look at a teacher in a small French town and the children he teaches. We watch as he teaches them and they grow up and finally leave. It is moving and sad. We learn about the children and get to know them in a piece of voyeuristic brilliance.
[font=Century Gothic]"To Be and To Have" is a documentary that focuses on Georges Lopez who has been teaching at the same one-room schoolhouse in rural France for the last 20 years(very quaint by the way) and is about a year away from retirement. He teaches a group of elementary ... read more
A beautiful and intimately touching documentary about a dedicated and caring teacher in a one-room school in rural France, The students with all their unique, colorful personalities range from ages 3 to 11 and all learn to live and learn alongside one another. There were two part... read more
Rather superifical and elitest account I dare say. Of course, school and education works different for kids when there is a 8 to 1 teacher ration, a beautiful countryside outside, all time in the world etc. BUt life is not so simple as this movie is suggesting and I reckon all th... read more
Great doc about a single room schoolteacher in the French countryside. Simple, slow moving, but completely engrossing...
I watched this in my French 1 class, luckily, the subtitles were on. Very touching, intimate look at a lifellong elementary school teacher and his smalltown students.
The setting is a one-room schoolhouse in the French countryside in which one teacher must find a way to instruct children from pre-K through high school simultaneously. He is quite extraordinary, yet human at the same time. It may change or advance your ideas about education or... read more
Ode to school teachers everywhere. Old to the one room school house. Don't miss it, you'll never seen another like it.
One of those rare movies that works as a humbling experience. Full Review
A counterintuitive film about a small schoolhouse in rural France, To Be and to Have gets its punch from simple scenes and conversations. Full Review
To Be and to Have is a movie every teacher should see, and every parent, too.
At times, it feels as stultifying as watching paint dry, without the recompense of sniffing fumes. Full Review
Amounts to a rare gift and an opportunity to appreciate the end of an era.
Deep, honest and unforced.
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. Full Review
An unhurried model of nonfiction filmmaking and a vision of life at its most persuasively humanistic. Full Review
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