The Class
Entre les murs
“ The greatest lessons are learnt when life enters the classroom. ”
CINEMA2008-09-24
RegionFR
Runtime130 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“A classroom realist film where migration, class, language, and educational pressure collide in everyday exchanges.”
Storyline
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
DIRECTOR / Director
Laurent Cantet
KEYWORDS
immigrantclass societyparisfranceliteratureboredomsocially deprived familyillegal immigrationviolence in schoolseducationmulticulturalismrepublicanismteacherschoolhigh school teacherschool lifespeculativeteachers and studentsfrench teacherteenager
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Handheld naturalism capturing unvarnished reality—illuminating human dignity across the margins of society.
A classroom realist film where migration, class, language, and educational pressure collide in everyday exchanges.
