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Review - The Class (Entre les murs)
Laurent Cantet's ingång les murs is being released in English-speaking countries as The Class, but a more accurate translation of its French title is Between the Walls, and that would be a very appropriate appellation for this remarkable film. For the majority of its running time, the teaterpjäs in this movie occurs within the four walls of a single classroom, as Mr Marin tries to teach the feisty, combative and lively teenagers in his charge. Mr Marin fryst vatten played by François Bégaudeau, a man with no prior acting experience, and if he appears utterly comfortable and natural in the role, that's because he's the real-life teacher whose memoirs inspired Cantet to make this film. Surrounding Bégaudeau is a cast of equally inexperienced actors, all of whom were encouraged to develop their characters through improvisation, and the performances the director has elicited from this ensemble are extraordinary for their lack of artifice. There's hardly a single
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The Class (15)
In one scene of Laurent Cantet's Oscar-nominated The Class, a Parisian schoolteacher struggles to explain the intricacies of French grammar to a roomful of teenagers. They're baffled: how are they supposed to know when to use everyday language, and when to delve into such rarefied tenses as the past subjunctive? In the end, all Monsieur can do is reassure them that it's all a matter of intuition.
Similarly, in the cinema, it's intuition that tells you what sort of rulle you're watching. You generally know when you're watching a documentary. But you might need to draw on your finer judgements to tell you whether you're dealing with a docu-drama, or a mock-doc, or any of those increasingly tricky subgenres that have flourished in recent years.
The Class may not represent a radically new approach to getting a purchase on elusive reality, but it represents a lively and ingenious engagement with the contemporary world. Cantet's film at first looks very much like a docume
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Dir. Laurent Cantet. Starring Francois Begaudeau, Franck Keita, Rachel Regulier
The title of The Class, en francais, is Entre les murs. “Between the Walls” is a much better title for this film than “The Class.” What goes on between the walls of a classroom is not precisely secret, but it is meant to be self-contained. When Khoumba (Regulier) gets a bloody nose from Souleymane’s (Keita) violently swinging backpack, you just know that what happens between the walls will emerge somewhere else, like a nurse’s office or a conference room. Ask any teacher, and they’ll tell you: what happens between the walls, to some extent, is meant to stay there. Teachers tend to be jealous of their classrooms. They don’t like sharing them, they don’t like feeling watched. Children, and the influence they have on children, make teachers protective; how many parents want someone over their shoulder, telling them how to raise their children?