The Class
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Laurent CantetKamera:
Pierre MilonBesetzung:
François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Valérie Benguigui, Louise Grinberg, Farida Ouchani, Rabah Naït Oufella, Olivier Pasquier (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Im Mittelpunkt des Films steht Francois, ein junger und ambitionierter Lehrer an Vorortschule in Paris. In diesem sozialen Brennpunkt stammen die meisten seiner Schüler aus Einwandererfamilien. Während einiger seiner Kollegen schon lange aufgegeben haben versucht Francois mit enormen Engagement, den Schülern wenigstens ein Minimum an Wissen und sozialen Werten beizubringen. Francois stellt sich ihren Wortgefechten mit viel Geduld. Obwohl die Schüler ihn provozieren und aus der Fassung bringen wollen kämpft er unermüdlich gegen die Aggressivität und Leistungsverweigerung der Jugendlichen. (Concorde Home Entertainment)
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A French Beverly Hills 90210. Yes, I already used this comment in my review for Truffaut’s Pocket Money, but this is because these two movies of his have more in common than it might seem at first glance. It’s just that The Class beats the track of “reality above all" so much that it’s absolutely un-movie-like (in terms of action, tension rise etc.). It might have been a tad better and meaningful if it were a documentary.
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This film is closely related to the Italian film Gomorrah in its style. It is not a classical feature film in the true sense of the word, where the screenplay presents a story to the viewer, but rather a docudrama that subordinates the plot on the screen to the greatest authenticity of the environment, the reality of the behavior of the characters, and the overall testimony about the state of French education. It is necessary to emphasize that Laurent Cantet did not choose an extreme case, but rather an ordinary school from the outskirts of a big city with a number of immigrant children and unmotivated urban poverty. French education suffers from massive truancy and criminal activity, so most schools elsewhere in Europe are relatively better off in this respect. On the other hand, I get the impression that they are trying to catch up with this disadvantage. Given the above, it is not an entertaining film, but rather a truly documentary view of the issue. Overall impression: 80%.
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