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The Class

Entre les murs

2008

Laurent Cantet

François Bégaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, Laura Baquela, Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi, Juliette Demaille

6.8

21,332

Drama François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics is put to the test when his students begin to challenge his teaching methods ...

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"An artful, intelligent movie about modern French identity and the attempt to transform those bodies into citizens through talk, talk, talk."	POS
United Kingdom	Mike Goodridge Screendaily	"It offers a rich microcosm of today’s multi-ethnic French population and fascinating insights into the complicated dilemmas and misunderstandings which teaching - and indeed learning - can entail."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I could watch it all afternoon. The teacher simply dealing with all the backchat is endlessly fascinating (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"A remarkably dynamic film in which words are explosive devices (...) 'The Class' confirms and extends Cantet's status as one of the masters of European social cinema."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"The film exhilarates with its lively, authentic classroom banter while its emotional undercurrents build steadily but almost imperceptibly over a swift 129 minutes."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is bursting with life, energy, fears, frustrations and the quick laughter of a classroom hungry for relief (...) It is uncannily convincing (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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