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Laurent Cantet

April 2024

  • THE CLASS ; ENTRE LES MURS<br>LAURA BAQUELA Film 'THE CLASS ; ENTRE LES MURS' (2008) Directed By LAURENT CANTET 24 May 2008 SSS74336 Allstar Collection/HAUT ET COURT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To HAUT ET COURT is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use.

    Laurent Cantet obituary

  • Peter Bradshaw

    High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw

February 2024

  • Clockwise from top left: Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love (1967); Parker Sevak and Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Kindergarten Teacher (2018); Robert Donat in 'genre grandaddy' Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939); Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in The Holdovers (2023). Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: The Holdovers and the best films about teachers

    From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema

November 2018

  • Unfinished business … The Workshop.

    The Workshop review – teacher on a preposterous learning curve

    Laurent Cantet’s drama about the lessons of a young people’s writing class is laboured, inert and utterly unconvincing

August 2017

  • RETURN TO ITHACA

    Return to Ithaca review – Palme d'Or winner's Cuban comrades clean out their closets

    Laurent Cantet, director of The Class, zeroes in on a Havana roof terrace for this wistful chamber piece in which old friends meet up to drink, reminisce and exhume old secrets

May 2017

  • L'Atelier film still

    L'Atelier review – words become weapons in Laurent Cantet's study of a writing workshop

    The Palme d’Or winner (for The Class) returns with a drama that throws together disparate aspiring writers, in a film that suggests debate can be as exciting as action

December 2014

  • School of Babel

    School of Babel review – absorbing anatomy of a multi-ethnic classroom

    The pupils in this documentary about a Parisian classroom are a bit more studious than the ones in its fictional counterpart The Class, writes Andrew Pulver

July 2014

  • The Humbling, Time Out of Mind, The Invention of Everything and The Riot Club, all of which premiere at Toronto this September

    Toronto film festival 2014 programme release kicks off 2015 Oscar race

    • Premieres for biopics of Beach Boys and Stephen Hawking
    • Meaty roles for Adam Sandler, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere
    • Closing night film is Kate Winslet period drama A Little Chaos

August 2013

  • foxfire laurent cantet

    Foxfire – review

  • Composite of images from films reviewed on the August 9 Guardian Film Show

    The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Foxfire and The Lone Ranger - video review

  • Foxfire

    Foxfire – review

  • Laurent Cantet

    Laurent Cantet on filming Foxfire's teenage energy and despair

September 2012

  • Great Expectations

    Toronto film festival 2012: key contenders – in pictures

    Henry Barnes: From Looper to Cloud Atlas, here are some of the films expected to have the best chance of nabbing prizes in Toronto

July 2012

  • 7-days in havana

    7 Days in Havana; The Players – review

    One portmanteau film set in Havana is charming; another, a story of philandering hommes about town starring Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin, is sheer yuk, writes Jason Solomons

March 2010

  • French director Laurent Cantet with his Palme d'Or for The Class

    Film blog
    Why are we still so deferential to French film-makers?

    Danny Leigh: French film enjoys the confidence of a fine pedigree, but in 2010 are British film-makers really less talented than their Gallic counterparts?

December 2009

  • Aurelien Recoing in Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps)

    Film blog
    Best films of the noughties No 9: Time Out

    Catherine Shoard: Loosely based on the true-life story of a white-collar family man who went spectacularly off the rails, Laurent Cantet's perceptive drama was made in 2001 but couldn't be more pertinent today

March 2009

  • James Marsh and Oscar

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly: Red Riding and The Class

    Jason Solomons talks to Oscar-winning Man on Wire director James Marsh about his latest project, Channel 4's Red Riding trilogy. Plus, a tutorial with Laurent Cantet, director of The Class

  • The Class

    Film blog
    The Class teaches us a lesson in despair

    David Cox: The Class raises the question of whether traditional education is compatible with contemporary values

  • Phillip French reviews The Class

    Au revoir, Monsieur Frites

    A year in the life of a classroom of enfants terribles in a tough Paris school makes for compelling slice-of-life drama writes Philip French

February 2009

  • The Class - Entre les murs

    The Class

    An autobiographical film about a teacher avoids all the genre cliches, says Peter Bradshaw

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