School Life's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
"'School Life' adds a vital perspective on a particular form of education, highlighting most notably that with the right educators and the right environment, it can ? and should be ? a joyous, mind-opening experience."
Los Angeles Times
"'School Life' is as charming, intimate and warm-hearted an observational documentary as you'd ever want to see."
The A.V. Club
"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."
Time
"But mostly, we see John and Amanda teaching by not-teaching. And we the school, after our brief time there, realizing that we?ve learned something too."
Screen Daily
"Childhood is a mystery we endlessly come back to and a place the Leydens have never fully left; Ní Chianáin gives the viewer an intimate view of it in this unusual little story."
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote