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Nicolas Philibert

February 2024

  • Clockwise from top left: Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love (1967); Parker Sevak and Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Kindergarten Teacher (2018); Robert Donat in 'genre grandaddy' Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939); Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in The Holdovers (2023). Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa

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    Streaming: The Holdovers and the best films about teachers

    From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema

November 2023

  • people dancing on the boat the adamant in paris

    On the Adamant – profoundly affecting documentary about a Paris psychiatric day centre

  • The Adamant on the Seine.

    ‘I’d be a wreck without it’: the floating daycare centre where Parisians paint, dance and heal

March 2023

  • Human curiosity … Nicolas Philibert’s documentary On the Adamant.

    On the Adamant review – Nicolas Philibert offers art and soul aboard floating Parisian day-care centre

    Nicolas Philibert’s warm and sympathetic documentary about a boat for mental-health patients on the Seine is a worthy winner of the Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear

June 2012

  • Etre et Avoir … .people ask me what I'm trying to achieve.'

    Nicolas Philibert: I have no idea what my films are about

    The maker of the classic documentary Etre at Avoir on why he avoids researching the subjects of his films beforehand – and then relies on his audience to tell him what they mean

April 2012

  • Etre et Avoir

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    Curzon on Demand: Etre et Avoir

  • Our Curzon on Demand Films Day 7: Être et Avoir

June 2011

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    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray releases

  • Etre et Avoir, film by Nicolas Philibert

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    Your next box set - The Nicolas Philibert Collection

January 2011

  • Nicolas Philibert

    Nicolas Philibert: the future's orange

    An elderly orangutan is the star of Etre et Avoir director Nicolas Philibert's new documentary. But the real action is going on outside the cage, he tells Catherine Shoard

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