Director: Laurent Cantet
Writer: L. Cantet, François Bégaudeau, Robin Campillo.
Based on the novel Between the walls of Bégaudeau François. Cast: François Bégaudeau and students of the Institute Françoise Dolto
Any adult movie buff who has suffered the punishment of a disastrous education, a sadistic, legitimized and unpunished abuse of power, will always keep their memories libertarian and poetic revenge for those who suffered the yoke as describing the Unruly wonderful, irreplaceable of Jean Vigo, and the incendiary If, of Lindsay Anderson. Truffaut returned dignity to the teaching flaky almost always telling the epic work of the humanist Jean Itard a wild child to learn to communicate, accept rules, deepen his sense of justice, discover the pleasure, usefulness or necessity of knowledge.
Hollywood cares less didactic but requires knowing what the box office, also attended with more traps than truth, conveniently sweetened thesis, believing that everyone is eventually good, initially troubled relationship between teachers and students . And fortunately, in recent years, directors more worried about the harsh truth that the reassuring fiction, such as Bertrand Tavernier All Starts Today, Zhang Yimou Not One Less and David Simon and Ed Burns in the fourth season of the television series The Wire , have been proposed and conclusions drawn harsh reality of what is happening or may happen in the classroom, relationships between teachers and students of the symbiosis between the tensions of the world abroad and what happens at school, suffering and frequent the image of the teacher who takes their job seriously, that in spite of everything not resigned to defeat, to throw in the towel. Laurent Cantet
adds to the excellent and urgent Class (original title Between the walls is more appropriate) that have been proposed to successfully portray the here and now hard at work to teach problem and learning. Nothing smacks of deception in this movie. Cantet adapts a book by Professor Francis Bégaudeau, who plays his own character, in which their experience over a year in a school on the outskirts of Paris, inhabited by the multiracial, for the children of immigration or Native lumpen underclass, for black students engaged in racism to the Maghreb and vice versa, people with suspicion or apathy to the authority that embodies the tenacious teacher who has proposed language to teach the subject to taxes, indifferent or aggressive patrons . Do not threaten with guns but outbreaks of violence between them or against them can be very strong, have their better days and worse, are ready, normal, silly, twisted, clean, traumatized, bold, docile. There is everything, as in life, but the chances that the true teaching professional feel you have achieved the intended fruit and that students take to be between the walls is rewarding and critical to its future, belong to the realm utopia.
Cantet tells this story without a solution, claustrophobic documentary spirit, capturing the authenticity of characters and situations, making students and teachers to interpret themselves, avoiding the sensationalism, the moralizing discourse. And it does so admirably, making the viewer uncomfortable, witnessed something that resembles everyday life too.
Carlos Boyero
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