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To Be and to Have

2002 • 1h 44min • Documentary, Family

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How do we learn to live with others? Director Nicolas Philibert poses this question in a village schoolhouse in Auvergne, where Georges Lopez teaches 13 children, ages ranging from 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 colourful classroom, to read, write, 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. As they learn sums and adjectives, with Lopez's help, they also learn to live side by side.