When The Class won the Palme D’Or at Cannes last year, it was the first French film to do so...
When The Class won the Palme D’Or at Cannes last year, it was the first French film to do so for 21 years. It’s an adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel by Francois Bégaudeau which deals with his experiences teaching literature at a rough school in a down-at-heel area of Paris. Bégaudeau himself takes the lead role.
Praised for its naturalistic style and realistic tension, Begaudeau says he hopes the film will open people’s eyes to the way things really are for the scallywags of our times: "I think it would be good for all those people who claim to be able to judge youth in two or three aphorisms to learn something new."
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The Class | Details
- Award winner
- Palme D'Or winner, Cannes 2008
- Rating
- M, contains offensive language
- Runtime
- 128
- Genre
- Country of origin
- France