Those of you who have seen Slumdog Millionaire recently may have caught a preview for the French film that received the Palm D'or at last year's Cannes Film Festival: The Class.
The movie is based on an autobiographical novel by François Bégaudeau (who actually stars as the character based on himself, François Marin) and follows his experience as a literature teacher in an inner city middle school in Paris. Story aside, the movie looks gorgeous and is getting rave reviews from film critics across the board. I especially like this review, which describes the movie as "an unsentimental slice-of-life story, shot on digital film with a cast of unglamorous unknowns."
I can't wait to see this when it opens Feb. 6. To watch the trailer, just read more.
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Elizabeth Arden
This looks like my kind of movie, for sure. Thanks for posting this, Buzz!
1as a teacher (middle school math! weeee!), i cannot wait to see this! i already see some of my own students there.
2It seems like the typical teacher movie, but I'm still interested because it's French and it won the Palme D'Or.
3i'm always interested in finding out about the movies that have done really well at cannes and other BIG festivals. this could be interesting, and i hope that we get to check it out soon.
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