Nicolas Philibert Movies
- 2007
In 1976, filmmaker René Allio used a notorious Normandy crime as the foundation for his film I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother. The film drew detailed a triple homicide that had taken place 140 years prior, and its cast was comprised almost exclusively of homegrown talent. Now, over 30 years later, I, Pierre Rivière assistant director Nicolas Philibert travels back to the shooting locales to find out just what has become of the amateur actors who appeared in that film. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
In 1976, filmmaker René Allio used a notorious Normandy crime as the foundation for his film I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother. The film drew detailed a triple homicide that had taken place 140 years prior, and its cast was comprised almost exclusively of homegrown talent. Now, over 30 years later, I, Pierre Rivière assistant director Nicolas Philibert travels back to the shooting locales to find out just what has become of the amateur actors who appeared in that film. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at once, is generally regarded a quaint thing of the past and a symbol of obsolete and ineffective teaching methods. However, the documentary To Be and to Have offers an in-depth look at a small school in rural France where one remarkable man has been doing the job of a small teaching staff for 20 years, and has taught several generations of bright and capable children along the way. Georges Lopez is an educator at a small school in France's Auvergne region, where between December 2000 and June 2001 he taught 12 students between the ages of four and ten. Employing a curriculum that embraces both academics and practical skills, Lopez and his school represent a surprising mix of the old and the new, where computer technology and old-fashioned memorization of the multiplication tables sit side by side. To Be and to Have captured Georges Lopez near the end of his career in education -- shortly after the film was completed, he retired after 35 years as a teacher. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1997
This French documentary travels to the Loire Valley of France to go behind the gates of La Borde, a progressive French psychiatric clinic, where emotionally disturbed inmates stage an annual musical production. With original music and songs, the play is the Polish absurdist comedy, Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz. Shown at the 1997 Vancouver Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- 1995
This fascinating French documentary chronicles the reopening of the Zoology Hall in the Paris Museum of Natural History in 1993. It had been closed for almost thirty years and it took three years of hard work to restore it and the stuffed creatures within. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1993
In this award-winning documentary both the beauty and the courage of the French deaf community are shown. In one segment, a filmmaker, helped by some deaf youngsters, discusses how the process of signing elegantly solves some of the same problems that filmmakers must solve in order to tell stories. In another, the marriage of a deaf couple is marred by an unthinking minister requiring them to exchange their vows aloud, and they have difficulties as well with their search for an appropriate apartment. The rest of the film shows a community so vibrant and successful that what one might have imagined to be a handicap begins to look like an advantage. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1990
This video goes to Paris for a tour of France's most famous museum, the Louvre. A curator leads the viewer on an appreciative and informative tour of some of the greatest art works in the museum's vast collection. From tapestries to sculptures to paintings, the course of artistic achievement through the centuries is showcased. Included is a look at the museum's most celebrated painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide
