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1085

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3.04/4

# of Ratings:

14

Genres:

Drama

Rating:

NR

Language:

French

DVD Release:

08/11/2009

Director:

Laurent Cantet

Actors:

François Bégaudeau
Laura Baquela
Dalla Doucoure
Damien Gomes
Nassim Amrabt
Arthur Fogel

 

 

 

 

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François Bégaudeau, teacher and novelist, plays a version of himself in this drama about a year in a racially-mixed classroom in a rough Parisian neighborhood. Both students and teacher will be tested as class, race, ethics all come into play.

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04/17/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Great/realistic movie about being a teacher

I'm not sure if I'm rating this too highly or too lowly. I always have a hard time rating movies about teachers and schools because I have a special place in my heart for them.

I think this movie would be extremely interesting to any teacher. It doesn't follow the hollywood script (ala Dangerous Minds) where a teacher changes everyone's life. I appreciated this movie because it just follows one teacher (Mr. Morin) who there isn't really anything too special about. He has run ins with students, gets push back, has successes and failures. It's just real and I really appreciate that. I wish the movie would have focused on Mr. Morin more. From a personal point I think it would have been good to see him mood outside of work fluctuate with what is going on in the class room.

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  Allison
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02/12/2009 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Class Act

It completely exceeded all my expectations and should win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film. It is a departure for Laurent Cantet, whose movies are typically more adult. I wasn't sure I would be all that interested in the film. However, the characters were fleshed-out and relevant to the changing racial tone in Paris, now that the city is becoming more diversified.

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