To Be and to Have (movie)
Être et avoir- User score: 7.3
- Production country: France
- Producer: Nicolas Philibert
- Production companies: Gimages 204, Les Films d'Ici, ARTE France Cinéma, Maïa Films
- Genre: Documentary
- Budget: $1,000,000
- Release date: 8/28/2002
- Run time: 104 min.
Movie description
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
