[REL] Entre les murs / The Class (2008)

katzenjammer · Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:34 pm

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068646/
Director: Laurent Cantet
Language:French
Color:Color
Aspect Ratio:2.35 : 1

Paris, the present. François, a young teacher in an inner-city comprehensive, prepares to face the new school year. He and his colleagues are shown teaching inattentive yet opinionated adolescents, some of whom have significant behavioural and personal problems
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popdrome · Post by **popdrome** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:13 pm 0 likes

Is it verified the genuine article?
I'm fed up with all the fakes.

Je m'en fou en tous cas.

Post by **FLL** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:25 am 3 likes

Yes, it is verified. Here's a 1CD release, also verified. I have both.

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One of the drawbacks of the REQ and Forthcoming system we have at FLM is that if the REL isn't added to the original thread, then the previous posts just sit there looking out of place. For this thread I think I'll quote the most relevant posts from Forthcoming Releases (i.e. those not about fakes) and then delete the original thread.

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 7:26 pm

FLL wrote:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1068646/

Just released at Cannes, projected October release to French theaters.

"The Class" by Laurent Cantet, a French film about students and teachers and their Parisian classroom life at a junior high school, won the Cannes festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or.

The announcement about the award has caused an even bigger media frenzy as it is France’s first in 21 years. Their previous win came way back in 1987 with the movie "Under Satan's Sun."

The movie was based on an autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau, who wrote about his experience as a young school teacher.

"It is an amazing, amazing film," said US actor-director Sean Penn, the head of the nine-member Cannes jury, as he announced the prize, according to Agence France-Presse.

MercuryNews qouted the movie’s director, Laurent Cantet, talking about his vision and presenting his drive for making the movie, as he wanted to capture the French society with all its multifaceted, teeming and complex features.

CANNES, France (AP) — The French film "The Class" has won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival.

The frank tale about classroom life uses real students and teachers at a junior high school

"The Class," directed by Laurent Cantet, is shot in a raw, improvisational style to chronicle the drama that unfolds over one school year...
a classroom drama shot in a French school using real students and teachers.

Sean Penn, President of the nine-person Jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, stood before the 2,300 cinema swells in the Lumiere Theatre this evening and told them that the top prize was awarded "unanimously": Entre les Murs, a.k.a. The Class, Laurent Cantet's affecting portrait of a Paris junior high school teacher and his restless, demanding students. Immediately a cheer went up, as Cantet, his star Francois Begaudeau and the 24 kids in the movie swarmed onstage, beaming as if they'd all graduated summa cum laude. They kept smiling through Cantet's long, fond acceptance speech, then were joined by other cinema dignitaries — including Robert De Niro, Dennis Hopper and Faye Dunaway — who were there as presenters. Suddenly, les enfants de Cannes were movie stars, reveling in their group closeup.

For the Jury, The Class filled all their demands. It was a praiseworthy "small" film, with no professional actors, let alone stars, which showed up on the afternoon of the Competition's last day — traditionally a dumping ground — but Penn and his colleagues also saw it as a great film whose qualities could not be ignored. Penn called it "virtually a seamless film. It's everything you want film to give you." Juror Alfonso Cuaron described The Class as "high cinema you can share with a young audience."

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:01 pm

kev wrote:Coolio!!

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Looks nice. Can't wait to see more!

kev.

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:32 am

FLL wrote:This is in limited release in the US, and I am lucky enough to have it showing within an hours drive, so I took the opportunity to see it in the theater tonight.

I liked it, but am not completely sure why. The entire thing takes place at the school, and the only thing we see of students' home lives is what they say in class plus some parent-teacher conferences. It's "reality TV" imitated and dramatised by the movies. If I think about the movie's structure it doesn't sound like much, but for almost the whole way I found it engrossing even though it's 2 hours long.

It's not typical FLM though, the kids are all 14-or-so year olds and not cute or particularly photogenic. But as long as you have realistic expectations I think you'll like it.

Post by **kev** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:01 pm 0 likes

Thanks for the release, katzenjammer!

And thanks FLL for retrieving the info from the other post.. I guess we'll be working on a resolution to the double-post quandary for the future..

kev.