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Feb 4, 2009 · “The Class” might have been set in any classroom in the Western world, and I believe most teachers would recognize it. It is about the power struggle between a teacher who wants to do good and students who disagree about what “good” is. The film is so fair that neither side is seen as right, and both seem trapped by futility.
May 23, 2008 · The film demands that the viewer pay attention to long talkative sequences in the classroom which may be offputting to some, although the characters of the kids are so colourful as to render all ...
Tweet. Esmeralda Ouertani has been described by one of her friends as “like the Duracell bunny - she never stops.”. She is one of the stars of this film, set in the Francoise Dolto High School in Paris’s 20th arrondissement, one of the city’s most culturally mixed areas. She is also a pupil at the school, as are all the rest of the film ...
Feb 2, 2009 · The French film, "The Class," has opened in the U.S. In May, it won the top prize at the CAN Film Festival, and now it's nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language feature.
The Class (French: Entre les murs, lit. 'Between the walls') is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau. The novel is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau's experiences as a French language and literature teacher in a middle school in the 20th arrondissement ...
Sep 15, 2008 · It’s a film that’s good on exploring, undermining and confirming first impressions. At the start of the film, a teacher runs through a list of pupils with a colleague, defining them as ‘nice ...
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"The Class" is not "Mr. Holland's Opus." Co-written by its star, Francois Begaudeau, based upon his own novel and experiences as a teacher at a French school different from the one portrayed, "The Class" avoids the all too common hyper-sentimentality common in American films that devote themselves to the educational system and those who dwell within it.
