The Class (2008)

Original title

Entre les murs

Directed by

Laurent Cantet

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 08m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 728 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French teacher works with a class of middle school students in a diverse Parisian neighborhood. The film shows the daily struggles and debates that happen between the teacher and his students in the classroom.

classroomday-to-dayobservationalfrustratingearnestgroundedconversationalcontrolled

What happens

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 of Paris, particularly illuminating his struggles with "problem children": Esmerelda (Esmeralda Ouertani), Khoumba (Rachel Regulier), and Souleymane (Franck Keïta). The film stars Bégaudeau himself in the role of the teacher. The film received a unanimous Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, making it the first French film to do so since 1987, when Maurice Pialat won the award for Under the Sun of Satan. The Class was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to Departures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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