The Class AKA Entre les murs (2008) (French)

The Class AKA Entre les murs (2008) (French)
Wanderer
The Class scooped up the top prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, a big award for a small movie that concentrates on what happens within the walls of a school--and mostly within the walls of a single spirited classroom. (In fact, the French title is Entre les murs, or between the walls.) Director Laurent Cantet based his film on an autobiographical novel by teacher Francois Begaudeau, and put Begaudeau himself in the lead role of the film. Casting the students with 14-and-15-year-old non-actors, Cantet then developed a system of improvising within certain story-driven guidelines, a style that allows for an astonishing amount of verisimilitude. It feels at times like a version of Dangerous Minds re-imagined by the documentarian Frederick Wiseman, in which most of the hackneyed plot twists of the sympathetic-teacher genre are wiped away. There is drama: along with the day-to-day negotiating of differing cultural ideas in this multi-ethnic Paris neighborhood, there's a crisis involving one hotheaded student and the teacher's tendency to verbally shoot from the hip. The subject in the class is ostensibly the French language, but the issues raised are about living life--and the tireless teacher both fails and succeeds in shaping those issues for his kids. Of course, the movie is also raising those issues in a kind of dialogue with its audience, which has its own desk in this busy classroom. The Class doesn't feel as exciting as Cantet's superb Human Resources and Time Out, maybe because it's a bit contained by its setting and structure. But as an experiment, it gets a solid A.
Video Codec ......: XviD
Release Date .....: 05/19/2009
Video Quality ....: ~1116 kbps
Theater Date .....: 05/24/2008
Resolution .......: 640x272
DVD RLS Date .....: 05/17/2009
Audio Codec ......: AC3
DVD Runtime ......: 02:04:17
Audio Bitrate ....: ~448 kbps
Aspect Ratio .....: 2.35:1
Framerate ........: 24.975
Language .........: French
Subtitles ........: Ch/En
Posted: 19. May 2009 at 22:17 by Wanderer
Audio Language: French
Subtitles Language: English
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