The Class PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 11, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | François Begaudeau | |
Performer: | Nassim Amrabt, Laura Baquela, Cherif Bounaidja Rachedi, Juliette Demaille, Dalla Doucoure, Arthur Fogel, Vincent Caire, Olivier Dupeyron & Patrick Dureuil | |
Directed by | Laurent Cantet | |
Screenwriting by | Laurent Cantet, François Begaudeau & Robin Campillo | |
Produced by | Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Barbara Letellier & Simon Amal | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Milon, Catherine Pujol & Georgi Lazarevski |
Major Awards:
Cannes 2008 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- The debuting Begaudeau ably captures the enthusiasm and discomfort of an idealist....The resulting stand-offs are tense, amusing and never anything less than authentic.
Empire
If the movie looks like a documentary, it feels like what it is: a powerful work that mixes fact and fiction in the service of truth.
Wall Street Journal
Cantet's film lulls the spectator into the rhythms of the everyday reality of school, belying a very carefully coordinated narrative structure that only becomes apparent in its final act.
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indieWire
THE CLASS is one of the most alive and engrossing movies ever to take on the rich, infinitely renewable topic of school-as-life, and make it feel real. Unscripted. And above all, honest. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
There are lessons to be learned in The Class, but its makers aren't clear enough on what they are.
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Washington Times
Most impressive, Cantet tracks the racial and ethnic resentments that simmer beneath the classroom discussions but become harder to quell when the parents get involved.
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Chicago Reader
The greatest pleasure in THE CLASS is seeing an actual teacher -- a skilled, creative teacher -- at work....Cantet orchestrates the myriad conflicts that arise within and among everyone involved with intelligence and subtlety. THE CLASS is thoroughly absorbing from beginning to end.
Film Comment
Product Description:
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, master French director Laurent Cantet's THE CLASS is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. François Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based--is utterly convincing as François, an openminded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds. Of course, the mere fact that he's older and in a position of authority causes his students to challenge him on many occasions. François is stuck in the middle. In the teacher conferences, he butts heads with the harsher adults who don't appear to have any sympathy for their students. In class, his attempts to be lenient and understanding are somehow misinterpreted and he finds himself arguing with the kids that he so clearly wants to help. As the school year progresses, tensions rise, until François finds himself in a position he never imagined he'd be in.
Unlike his more formally written early films like HUMAN RESOURCES and TIME OUT, Cantet proves that he has an ability to work in a more improvisational manner. Shooting on HD and working with a cast of young non-actors, he allows THE CLASS to breathe, resulting in a fictional drama that has the spirit and energy of a documentary. His startlingly assured ensemble brings the new, culturally diverse France of the early 21st century to striking life.
Unlike his more formally written early films like HUMAN RESOURCES and TIME OUT, Cantet proves that he has an ability to work in a more improvisational manner. Shooting on HD and working with a cast of young non-actors, he allows THE CLASS to breathe, resulting in a fictional drama that has the spirit and energy of a documentary. His startlingly assured ensemble brings the new, culturally diverse France of the early 21st century to striking life.
Product Description:
Realistic story follows a junior high class over the course of a year as it tests its teacher's methods.
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