TO BE & TO HAVE (DVD/WS/ENG-SUB)

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The National Society of Film Critics awarded Nicolas Philibert's lovely To Be and to Have a 2003 Best Documentary prize for its pastoral grace and subtle power. Philibert spent a period filming the rhythms and activities within a one-room schoolhouse in France's rural Auvergne region, where a soft-spoken teacher of 35 years, Georges Lopez, instructs pre-middle school children of varying ages in everything from reading to the making of crepes. The tall, mesmerizing Lopez, nearing retirement, is both a formidable and loving presence in his classroom, and the bucolic remoteness of his school has a way of amplifying such ordinary student dramas as fights, lagging grades, and painful shyness. Philibert gets a lot of mileage out of the antics of a loveable kid named Jojo, the decaying friendship of two older boys, and the grief of a young man whose father has cancer. A unique and moving experience. --Tom Keogh

• Actors: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel (II), Guillaume (IV), Jessie (II)
• Director: Nicolas Philibert
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• ISBN: 1567303668
• Language (Original Language): French
• Language (Subtitled): English
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2004-10-19
• Running Time: 104 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 2002

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