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Etre Et Avoir [DVD] [2002]

DVD ~ George Lopez
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: George Lopez
  • Directors: Nicholas Philibert
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Palisades Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Oct 2003
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000D1EZR
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,801 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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DVD Description
Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year, Etre et Avoir takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. A dozen youngsters, aged 4-10, are brought together in a rural classroom and taught every subject by a single teacher. A master of quiet authority, he patiently navigates the children towards adolescence, cooling down their arguments and listening to their problems with extraordinary dedication. Soon, however, he will have to say goodbye to those older students, who are now ready to go onto the state school in the local town.

Winner of a host of international awards, Etre et Avoir is a unique meeting of a director of remarkable talent and a man whose assured approach to teaching will have an impact, not only upon the lucky few children who could share his wisdom, but upon anyone he sees this extraordinary and heart-warming film.

Special Features

  • Star and Director filmographies
  • Scene selection
  • Nicholas Philibert interview
  • David Parkinson film notes
  • World Cinema trailer reel

DVD Technical Information:

  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Anamorphic
  • Running Time: 100 mins approx.
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Disc Format: DVD-5
  • PAL
  • Colour
  • Region Code: 0 (All)


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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply bewitching, 18 Jan 2006
By Outrageous Grace (Shropshire, UK) - See all my reviews
Slow yourself down, sit comfortably and quietly...and enjoy pure cinematic delight. No gimmicks or plot, no shocks or surprises. Just documentary film-making at its best.

It looks deceptively simple, and will touch you in the simplest and purest way. For a while you are truly in the heart of someone else's life - someone who cares about the small, deeply important things.

Once you have seen this film, you will always smile at the sight of Jo-Jo on the cover. The memory will enrich your life for a moment, which is as good as it gets in my opinion.

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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A room with a purpose, 27 Jun 2005
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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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 your friend. Shot almost entirely within the confines of the school, we nevertheless understand that farming is a dawn till dusk, 365 day a year business and that the children will be working on the farm before they venture to school for the first time ... and every day after they return from it. Children grow up fast in the country.

This is fly-on-the-wall stuff, a chronicle of the lives of Georges Lopez and his dozen pupils. It is shot with such grace, it is shot so unobtrusively, it makes the vast, fashionable bulk of reality television look like reprehensible trash. The people in this film are not posing and preening themselves for the camera. What we get, instead, is honesty and humanity.

We watch the kids having fights, struggling to grasp concepts, sometimes bored, sometimes excited, playing and working, just being natural. George Lopez comes across as a man who is passionate about his work - he can be sternly assertive at times, but his approach is based around rational discourse, about explaining and listening to explanation, about encouraging the children to think and not simply to behave.

We learn little about Monsieur Lopez - the son of a Spanish immigrant labourer who rose in station by becoming a teacher, he has been in the profession for some thirty years, has occupied his present position for twenty ... and is about to retire. We watch the older children being introduced to the new, bigger school they will attend after the summer, we watch the arrival of the new intake of tiny ones, but we do not know where M.Lopez will go. Will he be allowed to stay on in his rooms above the school? Will he feel he has to move?

As much as anything, this is a film about the nature of rites de passage, about process. We all go through changes in our lives, all have to face those moments when we enter a new school for the first time. It's a process which continues from birth to death, it's a process which can be made so much easier if there is rational explanation and discussion to parallel the emotion and salve the fear.

In an era where it is so difficult, as a male, to be allowed to relate to children without eyebrows being raised, this is an evocative expression of caring and generosity of spirit. It is a plea for patience, for encouragement, for listening to others, for motivating others and helping them learn, for tolerance, for sharing. A beautiful, surprising film which will spin you deep into its web of charm and to which you can return again and again.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So heart warming and brilliant!, 17 Nov 2005
By Mr. Ruairi McGovern (Sligo Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This is a film that covers the lives of the young students and a teacher in a small village school in the middle of rural France in over a year. It's so heartwarming and very funny to watch the efforts of the teacher as he teaches the students on every subject. One can't help but feel affection for the young students as they attempt to learn everything from him, including having to pronounce proper French instead of their local dialect their parents use. It's a film that should be watched by teachers if they need to reach out to their students or simply enjoyed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nostalga
An excellent film which reminded me how much I miss being a child. Thought provoking while at the same time enheartening that such dedicated teachers and schools exist(ed)... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just beautiful...
..nothing much happens and it is the quietness of this film (particularly compared to life with my own children!) that strikes you. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars European film at its very best
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I have now watched this film three times. I think it is one of the most moving and beautiful little films I have ever seen. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars unique, gentle and very affecting
This is a film about a French primary teacher and his small class of pupils. That's all it is. Georges Lopez is the teacher - not an actor, this is a documentary - and he has a... Read more
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Watch this film when the world seems a cold mean place. This film isn't one of the mass-produced "heart-warming" films that flood DVD shelves in town - This film has a... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not to be missed
This is a great film/documentary on Childhood. The type of film that makes you laugh, cry and think. If you fancy a change from those dull blockbusters, here is your film.
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