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2 unusual facts about To Be and to Have


La Borde clinic

Nicolas Philibert, the documentary film-maker best known in the English-speaking world for his Être et avoir, made a documentary set at La Borde entitled Every Little Thing (French La Moindre des choses).

Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson

It is the setting for the 2002 documentary film To Be and to Have (French: Être et avoir), about the commune's one-room primary school.


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Witold Gombrowicz

Nicolas Philibert, the documentary film-maker best known in the English-speaking world for his Être et avoir, made a documentary set in the radical French psychiatric clinic La Borde entitled Every Little Thing (French La Moindre des choses); released in 1997, the film follows the patients and staff as they stage their production of Gombrowicz's Operette.


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