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The Class

June 2009

  • The Class (Entre les Murs)

    Digested watch
    The Class: the blackboard jungle in the banlieue

    Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning classroom drama is out on DVD this week, but if you're not up to spending 128 minutes in a virtual suburban schoolyard, save time with our condensed screenplay instead

February 2009

  • Trailer park
    Film trailer: The Class (Entre les Murs)

    Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning film which chronicles a year in the life of teacher at a multicultural, inner-city French high school

May 2008

  • Top of the class

    Lanie Goodman meets the French director who made a film about an unruly classroom - and struck gold at Cannes

  • Cannes 2008 Palme d'Or winner Laurent Cantet with the non-professional student actors in his winning film Entre les Murs

    Cannes 2008: It's a wrap

    Wim Wenders' film The Palermo Shooting brought this year's Cannes film festival to a close, but it was French film Entre les Murs (The Class) which brought the festival audience to its feet when it won director Laurent Cantet the Palme d'Or, the first time a homegrown film has won in two decades

  • Pure class as French school drama wins Palme d'Or

    French director Laurent Cantet is surprise winner of festival's top prize, while British drama Hunger is named best first feature

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