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...this as simply as the film does: A man named François Marin (François Bégaudeau) teaches - or tries to teach - French to 14- and 15-year-old students in a coldly modern school in Paris. His classroom is not quite a blackboard jungle, but it does contain a marginally middle-class, ethnically mixed, psychologically fractious group of kids, who constantly challenge him with their lolling indifference, their angry outbursts, their perpetual edge-of-insolence attitudes. To be honest, we do not witness very many heartwarming pedagogical triumphs in director Laurent Cantet's The Class, which...
...several remarkable things about this austere and masterly movie - which may remind cinephiles of the calm clarity and seeming simplicity of the French master, Robert Bresson - is that Bégaudeau is playing a version of himself, in a screenplay of his own devising that is in turn based on a novel that he also wrote. It is hard to think of another film more tightly autobiographical than this one. It's even harder to think of other films that build so gripping a narrative out of a string of comparatively minor and disparate incidents. For its first few minutes...
...Marin, this becomes a moral crisis, and it must be said that neither here nor elsewhere in the movie does Bégaudeau or Cantet take it easy on the teacher. Like all the other caring and humane faculty members - maybe the film could use one or two cynics - he's obviously committed to his work and supple in his attempts to engage his students. But there is a certain self-righteousness in him, bordering on arrogance, that can be tough to take. He is not exactly Mr. Chips. On the other hand, the film makes it obvious that eccentric...
...went for the first time in 21 years to a French film: Laurent Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class), which traces a year in a Paris junior-high class. This judicious, quietly touching film was made with nonprofessional actors, including the teacher, François Bégaudeau, on whose memoir-novel the film is based. When the unanimous award was announced, Cantet, Bégaudeau and the rainbow coalition of kids all swarmed onstage for an ecstatic reunion...
Score--Harvard 3, Wilbraham Academy 2. Goals--Second period, Harris (3.42): third period, Copan (6.33), J. Ware (7.44), Waters (9.30), J. Ware (14.53) Referees--Gaudeau and Noonan. Time three 15-minute periods. HARVARD WILBRAHAM Kirkland, J. Ware, l.w. r.w., Ross, Whittier Field, Gallagher, c. c., Borbis, Copan Summers, W. Ware, r.w. l.w., Harris, Chrisolm Choate, Gleason, l.d. r.d., Parker, Harris Waters, Clapp, r.d. l.d., Copan, Ross deGive, D. Ware, g. g., Bumpus
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