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To Be and to Have
Directed by
Nicolas Philibert
Not Rated
2002
1h 44m
Documentary
,
Family
7.8
97%
91%
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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.
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Where to Watch To Be and to Have
Hoopla
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Free
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Cast of To Be and to Have
Georges Lopez
Self, teacher
Johan
Self, 4 year old - Jojo
Alizé
Self, 3 year old
Guillaume
Self, 9 year old
Létitia
Self, 4 year old
Johann
Self, 4 year old
Jonathan
Self, 10 year old
Olivier
Self, 10 year old
Laura
Self, 7 year old
Marie-Elizabeth
Self, 4 year old
Julien
Self, 10 year old
Nathalie
Self, 11 year old
Jessie
Self, 4 year old
Axel
Self, 6 year old
Nicolas Philibert
Director / Writer
Gilles Sandoz
Producer
To Be and to Have Ratings & Reviews
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
The beauty of To Be And To Have is that Lopez's loss isn't the audience's. This movie is a portal, leading to a living museum of childhood.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
The most unvarnished cinematic portrait of childhood I've ever seen.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
It demonstrates without overreaching what an actual teacher can do to shape lives.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
A counterintuitive film about a small schoolhouse in rural France, To Be and to Have gets its punch from simple scenes and conversations.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
To Be and to Have is a movie every teacher should see, and every parent, too.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
At times, it feels as stultifying as watching paint dry, without the recompense of sniffing fumes.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Watchful viewers -- particularly those with fond memories of a favorite teacher -- will be deeply moved by this film.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Amounts to a rare gift and an opportunity to appreciate the end of an era.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Deep, honest and unforced.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
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.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
An unhurried model of nonfiction filmmaking and a vision of life at its most persuasively humanistic.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
To Be and To Have works in the grandest tradition of documentary filmmaking -- it keeps company with a small, specific place going about its business, and from it parses the whole world.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Contains some of the most stirring footage I have ever seen on the act and art of teaching children.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
This heart-wrenching documentary about a French village schoolteacher at work offers the comedy and pathos of great drama and the visual magnificence of painting.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
To Be and to Have feels like a deep, sweet pull of spring water.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
One of the year's most engaging films.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The film is as tiny as an Altoid and as curiously strong.
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