Laurent Cantet during the filming of 'The Class'. World Rocío Torres Nombela / By a 'Reality' but not 'Show'. This is how Laurent Cantet shows that the film can be a tool of social awareness. The French director introduces, for a year, his video camera in the class of a French institute a depressed neighborhood on the periphery. Thus was born his film Class ('Entre les Murs', 2008), and with it a docudrama that helps us understand what happens in educational institutions. This work serves to destroy the stereotypes that are created when we talk about conflicts and the undoubted limitations of the education system has. But it is time to reflect and try to propose solutions . Solidarity forum proposes to start by not consider adolescence as a stage of stupidities y errores, sino más bien como una etapa de oportunidades.
Education, multiculturalism, the relationship between teachers and students, the stage of adolescence, the difficulty of teaching and education ... are the underlying themes of this exciting film, fully exposed to open debate and position of the viewer. It is a fiction with a dose of reality and a great burden of realism . The director does a great job, and not only that counts, but how it tells.
Laurent Cantet, as a starting point, took the novel of the school teacher and writer Francois Bégaudeau , Entre les murs. From there you contacted Bégaudeau who, amazed, he received the news that his book happen to the big screen and that he himself would be the protagonist. Just started this adaptation.
What characters!
The result is a very interesting and intense film that presents a microcosm of contemporary France, played by real students and teachers .
Bégaudeau, does a good job as an actor. The role is that of a French language teacher, a young, enthusiastic, concerned about the real education of their pupils, adolescents who are undergoing a crucial stage of life , which are no longer children and have not yet reached adulthood.
There are no good or bad, the camera only attends the class of a teacher who relies on the ability of their students. Teachers and students are reflected as is, with brilliant moments, tender moments, hard, tight and intimate.
Thus, we are able to say that the characters are extremely representative. Of course so are the teachers, with doubts, worries and frustrations. But what is really denotes is the effort and concern for trying to create space as authentic as possible.
We see the first part where the dialogue is protagonist. Professors work full of good intentions and try to teach beyond the grammar. Put on the table questions as how best to pursue the education system, the complex ethnic, the true value of the materials that are studied and the effectiveness of sanctions.
Then there is a second part where the viewer observes how these idyllic alternative that has been built along the first part in your head is facing the reality, a reality characterized by penalty system as sad as true .
Class won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival and the Award 'Luna de Valencia' the twenty-fourth International Festival Cinema Jove Film, also was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign language film in 2009. If the field not be missed.
Laurent Cantet the Palme d' Cinencuentro.com
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