To Be and to Have (Être et avoir)

To Be and to Have (Être et avoir)

I picked up (To Be and To Have) Être et avoir after reading the back cover. It said that it was the highest grossing French documentary of all time or something like that, so I figured it had to be good. It was Okay. There was a lot of nice scenery in the movie and the compassion of the teacher was much more evident at the end verse the beginning. Though, I kind of wonder if you need to be French or a Francophile to completely get this movie.

In short the documentary was about Goerges Lopez a teacher in a one room school house somewhere in the French country side and the lives of the handful of students he teaches. His students were kindergarteners through pre middle schoolers and all seemed to be very unique.

I don't think I would go as far as not recommending this movie because the interpersonal relationships were interesting and it was an interesting look into life in a one room schoolhouse.

I would be interested in hearing some bodies else's take on this movie.