Entre les murs (Collection Folio (Gallimard))

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Entre les murs (Collection Folio (Gallimard))

Entre les murs (Collection Folio (Gallimard))

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Even if there are problems between the professor and his students, by the end, they are all playing football together in the playground. The Class was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to Departures. The film was warmly reviewed by the critic Philip French who noted: "There is a remarkable French tradition of school films, extending from Jean Vigo's Zéro de Conduite, to Nicolas Philibert's Être et avoir.

The superb camerawork is involving but never intrusive, allowing the audience to share a sense of intimacy with the onscreen events, while the supremely sharp editing keeps the film in constant motion.

I love all the accidents that can happen and I spent some brilliant moments just listening to them, hearing what they were saying and then responding to that. At the beginning it was very difficult to put myself in the skin of the character but then I got into the clothes that he wears and it helped," he admits.

It features standout performances from the young actors - real pupils who made the movie in their holidays. François is relatively calm, humorous and approachable, but actually a stickler for good manners and with maybe too thin a skin. François himself is coldly furious at the girls' indiscretion and accuses them in class of behaving like "pétasses" - "skanks" - crucially losing his cool and compromising his authority.

In fact, the drama of the film's second half is actually instigated by his lack of professionalism, when he finally loses his temper and recklessly hurls the word pétasses towards the two girls whose behaviour had been getting under his skin. Everything else is spot-on, though: he gets along with his colleagues, has an intelligent teaching plan and is generally considered a good French teacher. For Esmeralda, the most important message of the film was "to show we are all so different but, in the end, we all stand up for Souleymane. During the next class, despite the confidential nature of the teachers' conference, the two girls tell the others that François had it in for Souleymane. However, I would warmly recommend it to teachers, students and parents alike, both in France and in the UK, as I believe the questions it raises are relevant to all of us.



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