The Class The Class

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.

François Bégaudeau Franck Keïta Esmeralda Ouertani Rachel Regulier Wei Huang Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi Louise Grinberg Rabah Nait Oufella Carl Nanor Jean-Michel Simonet Henriette Kasaruhanda Laura Baquela

Haut et Court

drama foreign

128 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • TR_EX

    Review by TR_EX ★★★

    Wasn't focused on the movie but I enjoyed it to a extent.
    The kids really don't look like fourteen years olds and they are pictured incredible stupid. That makes the movie kinda boring.
    The intelligent location, the acting of François Bégaudeau and the interesting story are compensating the weak aspects.

  • Todd Willcox

    Review by Todd Willcox ★★★½

    2008's THE CLASS was nominated as Best Foreign Film by our Academy and actually won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or (apparently unanimously). Was all that praise warranted? Well, I haven't seen the vast majority of films it competed against at Cannes, nor have I seen most of the foreign films nominated for an Oscar that year. However, I found THE CLASS to be a bit overrated but still a very worthwhile film. It shows us various moments in the year of a French provincial school led by an enthusiastic teacher played by François Bégaudeau in a terrific performance. The students -- too numerous to name or identify in another way here -- are also terrific and, as they should,…

  • Jacob Olsen

    Review by Jacob Olsen ★★½

    Palme d'Or in 2008, really? Well, it's not the contest that has produced the bulk of my personal favourites exactly, so what do I know. But it should mean that it has something extra in one way or another, like cinematic style or a daring story. It hasn't. I can only find one thing that makes this stand out above average, and that is the acting. But they don't award Palme d'Ors for that.

    It's a conventional classroom drama from a Parisian «tough neighborhood» with a bit of racial conflict (just a bit of lip), language barriers and teacher frustration. Not more than you would expect. Everything falls into place when one student is expelled, was it the right decision?…

  • Daniel Rodriguez

    Review by Daniel Rodriguez ★

    Some people might thing this review is not fair of me, but I just can't avoid. I've seen it only as a request from a teacher, and I regret doing it.

    First of all, I'm really sick and tired of those french dramas my teachers made me watch along five years of college, and I hate even more those school movies, they are all the same, only the name changes. I've seen the same story over and over again, in movies from France, UK, US, Brazil, Germany and I don't even know what goddamned country, I'm just done with it. This one is the worst so far, not only because of my lack of patience to it, but also because…

  • Roman Rangel

    Review by Roman Rangel ★★★★

    The Class" es la cinta mas realista sobre la vida escolar. Olvidense de todos los cliches norteamericanos del maestro y sus alumnos (tipo "Dead Poet Society"). Esta pelicula demuestra que es posible hacer una historia que transcurra enteramente en una escuela, hablar sobre importantes temas e introducirnos a personajes fascinantes sin tornarse aburrido o predecible. La mayoria del reparto son verdaderos alumnos y profesores, y crean una autenticidad que nunca habia experimentado en una cinta de su genero (casi se torna en un documental).
    "The Class" gano la palma de oro en el festival de Cannes, y es una de las mejores peliculas del año. Muy recomendada.

  • nimets

    Review by nimets ★★★★★

    I love movies where the events take place in an environment of minimum locations, especially in the classroom.
    Palme d'Or in 2008!

  • Mikhail Kalmykov

    Review by Mikhail Kalmykov ★★★½

    У французского режиссера Лорана Канте блестяще получается вырисовывать живые, развивающиеся, наслаивающиеся друг на друга внешние конфликты, за которыми чертовски интересно наблюдать, ибо их не приходится искать в мимике актеров или коллаже многозначительных кадров - они мгновенно проявляются в репликах и вспыхивают в перепалках. В дебюте "Кровожадные" - это конфликт лидера компании и чужака, оспаривающего его популярность, в моих любимых "Человеческих ресурсах" - это столкновение карьерных стремлений сына, которые оказываются на противоположной чаше весов с отношениями с отцом, в "Классе", наиболее обласканном наградами фильме Канте - это конфликт класса и учителя, которому ряд вроде бы небольших компромиссов и проявление неуверенности стоит авторитета. Шайка 15-летних подростков - самые большие спорщики в мире, причем их не волнует логичность или последовательность аргументов, они могут не держаться какой-то общей мысли, а просто оспаривать каждую новую реплику учителя в отрыве от предыдущего контекста. И то, что фильм смахивает на документальный- результат той естественности постановки, которой достиг Канте.

  • Andyjack

    Review by Andyjack ★★★

    之前金馬沒看到

    首輪上映後還是沒看

    終於上了二輪

    就跑去看了

    我一直很喜歡有關"教育"的電影

    這部拍得很真(雖然跟台灣的情況不太一樣)

    好像我們真的坐在課堂上看他們師生相處似的

    小演員們演得很自然，不知道是外國人天生就一大堆人就會演戲...還是導演得太厲害...

    我一直覺得

    學校真得是個控制思想的地方

    而不是在啟蒙學生

    這很可怕啊!

    最後女學生跟老師說:我覺得，我甚麼都沒學到，我不懂

    是震撼的


    這片的口味沒有像"惡魔教室"那麼重

    也沒有那麼沉重

    氣氛講求寫實

    可以看出羅宏康特只是想描述出現在教育的狀況

    至於要怎麼解決，真的是得靠現實世界的人們來想辦法了


    學生演的真的很真

    但是那個戴牙套的女生真的很討人厭

    又肥又賤


    看完回來後

    小明說"為什麼要貶低高職"...

    其實本來並無貴賤之分

    只是我覺得台灣人的"迂腐"觀念根深蒂固罷了(認為只有讀書高)

    看看德國，技職體系可是比一般高中體系多很多。一技之長真的比較重要啦!

  • Ernest Tanquieng

    Review by Ernest Tanquieng ★★★★

    This film basically explained why I don't want to teach. The kids were such great assholes.