- Category: Video » World Cinema » French
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 043396300385
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113545507
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: August 11, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #25279 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #709 in World Cinema (See Top 100 World Cinema Bestsellers)
- #149 in French (See Top 100 French Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Class" starring François Begaudeau to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Class"Browse more products related to "François Begaudeau, Nassim Amrabt and Laurent Cantet"ReviewEmpire, 03/01/2009, 4 stars out of 5 -- "The debuting Begaudeau ably captures the enthusiasm and discomfort of an idealist....The resulting stand-offs are tense, amusing and never anything less than authentic." Entertainment Weekly, 12/26/2008, Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "THE CLASS becomes the most revealing inspirational-teacher film ever made, a moving and memorable look at what knowledge really is." Entertainment Weekly, 02/05/2009, "THE CLASS is one of the most alive and engrossing movies ever to take on the rich, infinitely renewable topic of school-as-life, and make it feel real. Unscripted. And above all, honest." -- Grade: A Chicago Sun-Times, 02/06/2009, 4 stars out of 4 -- "It is about the power struggle between a teacher who wants to do good and students who disagree about what 'good' is." Total Film, 03/01/2009, 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] feels effortlessly convincing....Not since Bertrand Tavernier's 1999 CA COMMENCE AUJOURD'HUI have we seen a school this real on screen." Wall Street Journal, 02/05/2009, "If the movie looks like a documentary, it feels like what it is: a powerful work that mixes fact and fiction in the service of truth." Box Office, 12/01/2008, p.34, 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a fantastic example of vérité filmmaking that gains much of its power from its verisimilitude....In mesmerizing fashion, Cantet and Bégaudeau have molded material taken from reality into a resonant work of art." USA Today, 01/30/2009, "[A] thought-provoking film. Told in a quasi-documentary style, THE CLASS is tightly focused on the struggles, squabbles and occasional triumphs of a Parisian high school teacher and his ethnically diverse class." Film Comment, 01/01/2009, "The greatest pleasure in THE CLASS is seeing an actual teacher -- a skilled, creative teacher -- at work....Cantet orchestrates the myriad conflicts that arise within and among everyone involved with intelligence and subtlety. THE CLASS is thoroughly absorbing from beginning to end." Distributor NoteRealistic story follows a junior high class over the course of a year as it tests its teacher's methods. Release NoteBlu-ray Disc Features: Product NotesWinner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, master French director Laurent Cantet's THE CLASS is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. François Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based--is utterly convincing as François, an openminded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds. Of course, the mere fact that he's older and in a position of authority causes his students to challenge him on many occasions. François is stuck in the middle. In the teacher conferences, he butts heads with the harsher adults who don't appear to have any sympathy for their students. In class, his attempts to be lenient and understanding are somehow misinterpreted and he finds himself arguing with the kids that he so clearly wants to help. As the school year progresses, tensions rise, until François finds himself in a position he never imagined he'd be in. If You Enjoy "The Class (Blu-Ray)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Class (Blu-Ray)"There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!
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