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!
jacko or gary glitters fav film no doubt. a kiddy fiddlers paradise. i aint watched a docu-flick for ages and this one about a few kids and their teacher did remind me of my own primary school days a little but there wasn't really anything that interesting about the thing as a wh...( read more)
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.
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...
Documental sobre la educación escolar de niños de 4 años en adelante, así como aquellos que apenas comienzan su educación primaria, en la comunidad rural de Auvergne, Francia. Instruídos en conjunto por el maestro Georges López, cada una de las conmovedoras imágenes de "Ser y Ten...( read more)
A surprisingly humble and restrained work of art.
Even though Claude Lanzmann's SHOAH (1985) is a much greater achievement for the documentary form sociologically, and the craft of most modern documentaries owe more to Errol Morris' THIN BLUE LINE, TO BE AND TO HAVE has been ...( read more)
A documentary film which follows a year in the life of a French schoolteacher who runs, and lives above, a small rural school in the Auvergne. This is rugged, beautiful countryside - good farming country if you are prepared to work and recognise that the weather will rarely be yo...( read more)
To Be and to Have is a movie every teacher should see, and every parent, too. full review
Watchful viewers -- particularly those with fond memories of a favorite teacher -- will be deeply moved by this film. full review
As quiet, patient and tenacious as Mr. Lopez himself, who approaches his difficult, endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline. full review
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