Spotlight entre les murs laurent cantet, france cinema scope. Laurent cantet s the class may transpire in a familiar setting an upper junior high school classroom but the way in which the story unfolds is anything but conventional. His parents were schoolteachers in ardilleux his 2001 film lemploi du temps was placed at 99 on slant magazines best films of the 2000s, number 9 of the guardians best films of the noughties, and number 11 at the a. Laurent cantets entre les murs the class, awarded the palme dor by. One of its bestknown proponents is alain finkielkraut, who took so sharply against entre les murs in the name of a purer, more traditional form of republican education.
The classis based on a book by francois begaudeau, a 36yearold. Entre les murs french mass market paperback mar 22 2007. Its also an effective way for the class entre les murs to demonstrate that first days at school can be as nervousmaking and fraught for teachers firsttime or veteran as for students. Entre les murs laurent cantet to find out more about this title and to purchase by paypalcard please follow this link to my new dolanguages site which combines french, german and spanish resources in one place. It was the kind of coincidence that doesnt happen in a laurent cantet film. En 2008, laurent cantet a realise le film entre les murs dans lequel il a meme joue le role principal. Entre les murs is poorly written in its dry dialogueled realism with only a few selected moments of a decent, but mainly sarcastic irony. His 2001 film lemploi du temps was placed at 99 on slant magazines best films of the 2000s, number 9 of the guardians best films of the noughties, and number 11 at the a. Laurent cantet s movie the class or entre les murs between the walls looks at a group of french students as they go through a year of high school. Laurent cantets entre les murs and mythologies of republican education. The class entre les murs high school drama in a class. Frankly speaking, the reason why i found this book interesting is mainly comparative, thinking to the italian system of education.
Between the walls is a work of contemporary fiction by french writer. Laurent cantet s wildly diverse oeuvre takes another turn with this absorbing improvised docudrama revolving around teacherpupil relationships in a school. The class is high school drama in a class of its own. Haut et court firm documents the process of creating a script and making a film based on the book entre les murs, which describes a teachers experiences in a french public school. Entre les murs can be seen as reflexive and realist. Essay on french film entre les murs theoretical analysis. Retrouvez lentretien dans son integralite sur le site derenlai. The class, winner of the palme dor at the 2008 cannes film festival, is a film where i either missed or didnt get the point.
Based on the description on the back of the dvd case i wrongly assumed this would be another teacher takes on a class of troubled innercity youth and turns them around type films. Nov 27, 2008 laurent cantets movie the class or entre les murs between the walls looks at a group of french students as they go through a year of high school. It takes the form of a close reading of entre les murs 2008, which, while illustrating well the failings of french education and specifically its republican ideals of assimilation, appears also to endorse the benign authoritarianism of the one teacher featured and to frame the. Based on begaudeaus semiautographical book entre les murs between the walls the class dramatizes a year in the life of a middle school in an immigrant heavy, multiracial neighborhood in paris. It was filmed with three digital cameras over the course of a school year. Entretien avec laurent cantet a propos du film entre les murs. Laurent cantets wildly diverse oeuvre takes another turn with this absorbing improvised docudrama revolving around teacherpupil relationships in a school.
Yet french director laurent cantet does something miraculous with it in this fresh piece of humanist, realist. Laurent cantet is a french director, cinematographer and screenwriter. Laurent cantet s entre les murs the class, awarded the palme dor by unanimous decision of the jury, and termed a seamless movie by president sean penn, is a slippery piece of work. It partially reinforces the seemingly benign authoritarianism and facile hero worship inherent in the blackboard jungle paradigm, while half. Feb 26, 2009 laurent cantet s followup to his prizewinning the class focuses on a secret society of highschool girls. On 25 may 2008, he received the palme dor at the 2008 cannes film festival, for the film entre les murs. The prize could have easily been named the golden apple rather than the the golden palm since it went to the class entre les murs, the laurent cantet film about a young teacher who tries to reach his class of primarily immigrant children in a school on the outskirts of paris. While i wouldnt say that i loved it, it was very good on multiple levels. This article examines the spatial representation of cultural mixite in the latest film by laurent cantet. When pupils have to read aloud from a set book, the diary of anne frank, a girl called khoumba. Laurent cantet scenario, robin campillo scenario 2 more credits.
I am making a single now called entre les murs the films french title that talks about the experience of the film. Entre les murs2008 study guide compiled by sarah leahy. The film was the recipient of the prestigious palm dor at the 2008 cannes film festival. Strictly speaking, this is not a documentary, although it contains more reality and truth than last years patently artificial american teen. Cantet worked with begaudeau on the script for the class, using the material from the book as a jumpingoff point for the development of the eventual storyline. I say eitheror because i wanted to admit ahead of time that i could be wrong. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. The class entre les murs high school drama in a class of its own. Entre les murs, di laurent cantet lultimo spettacolo. Between the walls is a 2008 french drama film directed by laurent cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by francois begaudeau.
It illuminates the truelife realities of the social conjuncturethe school and educational system. En 2008, laurent cantet a realise le film entre les murs dans lequel il a meme. To ask other readers questions about entre les murs, please sign up. Entre les murs isnt quite as bleak as this earlier film and there are some lighter moments, yet it doesnt shirk from showing the grim reality of life in an inner city classroom. The students are also nonprofessionals, and classroom sessions were improvised from workshops around specific themes. The french director has taken a story that of an idealistic young teacher confronted with the rawness of an innercity high school that lesser film makers would have treated with kid gloves, doused with honey. The novel is a semiautobiographical account of begaudeaus experiences as a french language and literature teacher in. Dec 21, 2008 the class entre les murs effectively demonstrates that school can be as nervousmaking and fraught for teachers firsttime or veteran as for students. Laurent cantet, robin campillo and francois begaudeau.
True to this pattern, entre les murs begins with its hero as an apparently isolated and independent. Entre les murs 1, theoretical analysis entre les murs presents a new cinematographic style that pushes away borders of reality to build it. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. The class entre les murs is a film directed by laurent cantet with francois begaudeau, nassim amrabt, laura baquela, cherif bounaidja rachedi, year. Teacher and novelist francois begaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough parisian neighborhood. The class entre les murs 2008 trailer english subs. Oct 19, 2011 entre les murs1, theoretical analysis entre les murs presents a new cinematographic style that pushes away borders of reality to build it. Cantets films typically revolve around the tension between the individual, the group and the broader society and often involve moments of intense shame or embarrassment when individuals feel themselves judged by others who see the world differently. Work evidently fascinates laurent cantet, the richly imaginative french. Laurent cantet s entre les murs has been given the english title, the class, but intramural would have served much better. In what follows, i will essentially argue that, rather than committing to any one of these understandings of republican educational mythology, cantet s film holds them in tension, forcing us to work out where we stand. What an extraordinary film is laurent cantets the class.
In 2008, it was adapted to film by laurent cantet, also called entre les murs. Work evidently fascinates laurent cantet, the richly imaginative french writerdirector who has explored that theme from different angles. He is a director and writer, known for the class 2008, human resources 1999 and retour a ithaque 2014. Laurent cantets drama about the lessons of a young peoples writing class is laboured, inert and utterly unconvincing. With francois begaudeau, agame malemboemene, angelica sancio, arthur fogel. We go 1on1 with director laurent cantet to talk about his upcoming schoolyard drama, the class. Laurent cantet on filming foxfires teenage energy and despair the awardwinning french director talks about the challenge of adapting joyce carol oates novel about a secret society of teenage. The class aka entre les murs is a film that is certain to be divisive in some way, whether it be with the borderline slavish devotion to realism or the teacher at the center of the story. The palme dor winning film entre les murs the class couldnt be more deserving of the award, or the chance at winning an oscar to go along with it.
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