Camden New Journal
Publications by New Journal Enterprises
spacer
  Home Archive Competition Jobs Tickets Accommodation Dating Contact us
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
The Review - At the Movies with DAN CARRIER
Published: 28 September 2006

Pick of the Indies

OCTOBER'S offering at The Highgate Film Society is French education documentary Etre et Avoir. Director Nicholas Philibert follows a class made up of a mixture of ages, ably marshalled by their superb teacher Georges Lopez.
Philibert identifies this type of educational experience as rapidly disappearing. There are in France single class schools where all the children are taught under one roof –the type of educational system that has long since disappeared from the small villages of rural England.
What makes the film work is the way the daily trials of being a child is so ably documented over the course of an academic year.
Lopez is a genial man, a giant looming large over a class whose youngest is four years old. He listens patiently to their problems and explains the lie of the land.
All this is set against the backdrop of rural France, with the seasons turning the world outside the classroom window different shades as you watch each pupil grow gently.
The society screenings are open to members and non-members.

• The Highgate Film Society at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute, 11 South Grove N6. Call 020 8340 3343 for details.
 
spacer
» Film Times
» Film Reviews
» Buy DVDs
» Rent DVDs













spacer


Theatre Music
Arts & Events Attractions
spacer
 
 


  up