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Critics Consensus: School Life offers a warm-hearted glimpse of an educational institution that may leave audiences as inspired as the students.
Critic Consensus: School Life offers a warm-hearted glimpse of an educational institution that may leave audiences as inspired as the students.
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The immersion invites viewers to form their own thoughts on the children and teachers, and the value of the education offered at Headfort.
"School Life" is as charming, intimate and warm-hearted an observational documentary as you'd ever want to see.
In tone, "School Life" feels like a recruiting film for prospective students. It isn't exactly profound, except perhaps in the way it makes a case for the theory that happiness comes first, and then learning.
A rambunctious collage of a self-contained self-sustaining world, with its own rules of play and concerns.
While Headfort may offer an aspirational model for schools, such pervasive niceness can come across as repetitive on screen ...
It's the kind of school that could never exist in today's America: It's too freewheeling, too unstructured. Maybe it won't exist in Ireland much longer either, so it's a good thing that School Life manages to capture its weird, wonderful world.
School Life is a pleasant film about the quiet, pain-staking work of engaged educators.
School Life is likeable, but not lovable, due to how we never truly get to know about these inspirational teachers outside the classroom.
Directed by Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rayne ('The Stranger') this is a warm, personal, inspiring portrait of students, teachers and staff at an Irish boarding school that could have been titled The Joy of Teaching.
Absorbing educational documentary.
An unexpected humor that the camera captures with subtlety. [Full Review in Spanish]
Boarding school, especially for these youngsters (aged eight to 12) has rarely looked more appealing.
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