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NYFF: ‘The Class’ Q&A With Director Laurent Cantet

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:20:00 +0000

After our screening of Laurent Cantet’s Cannes-winning “The Class” (“Entres Les Murs”) about the mercurial and sometimes explosive life of a modern day classroom, at the New York Film Festival. We stuck around for the Q&A where Cantet spoke about his filmmaking process. Much of the film was done in two takes, one a scripted take and one an improvised one and Cantet remarked how surprised he was that both takes would seamlessly work together in the editing work.

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France Picks ‘The Class’ As Its Official Oscar Entry

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:34:00 +0000

France has had a banner year for films in 2008, but so much for strong films like, “A Secret,” “Tell No One,” “A Girl Cut in Two,” or Philippe Claudel’s “I’ve Loved You So Long” (one we haven’t seen yet, but one receiving stellar reviews), cause France has officially selected Laurent Cantet’s “Entre Les Murs,” (“The Class”) as its official Foreign Oscar entry for ’08.

That’s not a bad thing. We just saw “The Class,” earlier this week and we loved it.

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NYFF Review: Palme d’Or Winner ‘Entres Les Murs’ (‘The Class’) Deserves Its High Marks And Much More

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:41:00 +0000

The New York Film Festival opens to the public next week September 26th with the opening night film, “Entre Les Murs” aka “The Class.”

And there’s a damn good reason why Laurent Cantet’s extraordinary picture won the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes this year: cause it’s that fucking good.Based on a best-selling autobiographical novel by François Begaudeau, who also plays the main teacher in the film, the improvised-feeling, documentary-like picture crackles with spark and vim and tackles issues of race, gender, social status, economic class within the confines of the school room without ever feeling like a didactic lesson.

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