Aposta na ambigüidade e na sensação de estarmos acompanhando os fatos à medida que estes se desenrolam num ambiente de improviso que sempre valoriza o acaso.
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03/22/09
The Class (2008)
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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:132
Rotten:4
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Energetic and bright, this hybrid of documentary style and dramatic plotting looks at the present and future of France through the interactions of a teacher and his students in an inner city high school.
Theatrical Release:27-02-2009
Synopsis: Winner 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... [More]
Starring: François Begaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, Laura Baquela, Cherif Bounaidja Rachedi
Director: Laurent Cantet
Reviews for The Class
So truthful and engaging that you feel part of the class, sitting at a desk in the room as the events slowly unfold.
03/21/09
Every student has some potential, we see, which is why it's so heartbreaking to see them caught in the gears of a public education system that's doing its best, but hampered by limited resources and an institutional mind-set.
03/20/09
The Class offers a compelling and naturalistic look at contemporary teaching and the challenges of a diverse classroom. The film eschews big Hollywood moments and instead goes for quiet telling ones.
03/17/09
Most impressive, Cantet tracks the racial and ethnic resentments that simmer beneath the classroom discussions but become harder to quell when the parents get involved.
03/13/09
...feels real and immediate...
03/13/09
A dialogue-and idea-driven, documentary-style work of fictional vérité that defies the heroic teacher myth of Hollywood films like Dangerous Minds and reveals teachers and students as prisoners of the same flawed system.
03/12/09
The hard-hitting film makes most other school-based films resemble child's play, as careers and futures of both the teacher and student hang in the balance, in the uncaring hands of an indifferent system.
03/12/09
The classroom becomes symbolic of society as a whole: An incubator of problems as well as solutions, and a source of disaster and promise, hope and despair, affection and enmity...
03/06/09
Though it generates a few laughs, The Class is anything but uplifting. In the end you find yourself moved not by triumph but by the seeming futility of it all.
03/06/09
The Class ranks with the very best films ever made about teaching, and it's unlike any English or American film about teaching ever made.
03/06/09
It's complex and fascinating. It also has a real ring of truth to it.
03/05/09
The kinetic and perceptive realism of The Class puts to shame the entire field of schoolroom dramas and makes the movie seem more like an acutely observed Frederick Wiseman documentary than any up-the-down-staircase melodrama
03/05/09
The Class, an Oscar-nominated French film about a Paris middle school, should be required viewing for anybody considering a career in teaching.
03/04/09
There's a sense of realism and openness in The Class that fits the subject aptly
02/27/09
The fact that it's based on a book written by a former teacher who also stars in the film gives it more than a bit of authenticity
02/27/09
These kids aren't always all right. But they are consistently riveting.
02/27/09
Unlike many American films centered on the classroom (Dangerous Minds and Freedom Writers come immediately to mind) there are no heroes in The Class, and no glorious victories.
02/27/09
The Class skillfully straddles an intriguing line between reality and fiction.
02/26/09
The film's stunt is to unveil a simple truth, and its reputation relies on the fact that other filmmakers have yet to make the jump.
02/25/09
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