This is the next in our series of three films around a theme of topics leading up to the impending General Election – looking at immigration, education and health.
This month: “ETRE ET AVOIR” (“To Be and To Have”)
Starring: George Lopes and the children of a primary school in the Auvergne, France
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Certificate: U
Run time: 104 mins
Date: Friday 1st April
Screening start time: 7pm prompt (arrive from 6:30 - bring drinks/snacks and cash if you want to pick up pizza from the corner pizzeria)Where: Sacred Trinity, Chapel Street just outside of city centre - follow Market Street all the way down over the bridge and it’s on the corner
Film synopsis:
Schoolmaster Georges Lopes is in charge of pupils ranging from nursery-age to final-year of primary education, all from the same village. In a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ docu-style, the film is at once intimate and deceptively simple, recording the development of the students – both personally and academically – and the interaction between the ages and between teacher and pupils, at the same time offering a portrait of a small French farming community.
Themes:
What is the purpose of education? How does it differ from learning or teaching? Are schools simply places of learning for students? What labels do we pick up at school that stick with us - the tough kid, the one who is lagging behind, the funny one? And can a “fly-on-the-wall” documentary ever really be what it seems – objective and removed?
ADVANCE NOTICE
Films coming soon to Reel Spirituality:
Friday 6th May – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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