40. TO BE AND TO HAVE
 
France
dir. Nicolas Philibert
world premiere 2002
U.S. release 2003
 

 
Because a school in Auvergne turns out to be a Rosetta stone, revealing how patience is the bedrock of professionalism; how toddlers become youngsters; how youngsters react to incipient teendom; how kids coddle and berate themselves as well as others; how learning happens; how life is, in rural France; how life is, one way or another, wherever you are.