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- 2017
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2017
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 55 m
Summary Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
Directed By: Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
Written By: Petra Lataster-Czisch
- 2017
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 55 m
- 2017
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 55 m
Miss Kiet's Children
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Summary Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
Directed By: Peter Lataster, Petra Lataster-Czisch
Written By: Petra Lataster-Czisch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
83
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Childhood in Peter Lataster and Petra Lataster-Czisch's documentary is the terrain of contradiction and ambiguity.
The Latasters rarely put a foot wrong - from their static opening shot in the town of Hapert to the final frames of Miss Kiet in her classroom, this is a beautifully-judged piece.
The result is a lovely, upbeat, even life-affirming film. It's a work which certainly doesn't soft-pedal the less appealing sides of children's behavior, but shows that empathy, given appropriate circumstances and resources, can be taught just as effectively as arithmetic and spelling.
Much like a day at elementary school, this vérité wonder called Miss Kiet’s Children is exhausting, heartening, raucous, tender, occasionally dull, sometimes tearful, and ultimately a vital public good.
Miss Kiet’s Children is a lovely film.
As in Nicolas Philibert’s similar French documentary “To Be and to Have” (2002), the relative absence of conflict in the interactions between a seasoned teacher and wonderful pupils grows tedious at feature length, and there is — presumably by design — relatively little meat on this documentary’s bones.
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Production Company
Lataster & Films,
KRO-NCRV
Release Date Dec 13, 2017
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
DocsBarcelona, ES
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
World Humanitarian Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
