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  • The Être et Avoir director is back with a new film: a beautiful and revealing documentary about a zoo-dwelling ape

    Son of Babylon: 'I made it for my family, for Iraq' 2011

  • But i would recomend the French 2002 movie “To Be and To Have” [Etre Et Avoir] if MR Yglesias or anyone else here is interested in movies about French schools.

    Matthew Yglesias » All the Young Punks 2010

  • Nicolas "Etre Et Avoir" Philibert documents a 40-year-old orang-utan in a Paris zoo.

    This week's new films 2011

  • DVD & Blu-ray, 20th Century FoxThe Nicolas Philibert CollectionFour docs by the French film-maker include the delightful Etre Et Avoir, on an inspirational rural schoolteacher.

    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray releases 2011

  • DVD & Blu-ray, 20th Century FoxThe Nicolas Philibert CollectionFour docs by the French film-maker include the delightful Etre Et Avoir, on an inspirational rural schoolteacher.

    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray releases 2011

  • The esteemed Etre Et Avoir documentarian trains his patient gaze on an elderly orangutan in a Paris zoo, and gives us plenty of room to contemplate her captivity, our humanity and other matters far beyond a listless old ape.

    This week's new films 2011

  • Avoir la foire/foirer”, is quite an old slang for having diarrheoa/diarrhea.

    foire - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Yet she looked the same as when she had fascinated him with "_Avoir sans savoir est impardonable_" and the startling "I want you in my mouth."

    Beard 2010

  • "_Avoir sans savoir est impardonable_," the Frenchspeaking professor had told him, and translated it for him.

    Beard 2010

  • Avoir un polichinelle dans le tiroir” is used for an unexpected pregnancy, and/or a pregnancy one wants to keep secret.

    veinard - French Word-A-Day 2008

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