Ciné Club – ÊTRE ET AVOIR | 28 February 2017 – 10am

Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/02/2017
10:00 am

Location
M L Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise de Delhi

Categories


Initial release: August 2002

Director: Nicolas Philibert
Running time: 1h 44min

French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all

Plot: A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.

The thirteen pupils of a primary school of the small village of Saint-Etienne-sur-Usson, aged 3 to 10 years, are grouped in a single class. Their teacher, Georges Lopez, adept to the traditional methods, welcomes them every morning. Outside, it’s snowing. In the heat of the class, the children begin with a lesson in writing. Then the teacher goes to dictation, for the older ones. The days’ pass. The children learn to make pancakes or go off to go sledding in groups. In the evening, Georges Lopez corrects the notebooks. The parents of the children mingle with their homework or express their anxiety to the master …

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