The Class

A Feature film of

Laurent Cantet

Produced by

Haut et Court

Production year2008

French release24/09/2008

Runtime

2h 8m

Synopsis

François is a young French literature teacher of a class of teenagers in a rough school. He doesn't hesitate from engaging in stimuating verbal battles with Esmeralda, Souleymane, Khoumba, and the others, as though language itself were truly at stake. But learning to understand democracy can sometimes entail real risks.

Credits

Director (1)

Laurent Cantet
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Production and distribution (4)

Executive Producer : Haut et Court

Co-production : France 2 Cinéma

Film exports/foreign sales : Memento International

French distribution : Haut et Court

Full credits (13)

Executive Producers : Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Barbara Letellier, Simon Arnal

Screenwriters : Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo, François Bégaudeau

Directors of Photography : Pierre Millon, Catherine Pujol, Georgi Lazarevski

Assistant Director : Michel Dubois

Editors : Robin Campillo, Stéphanie Léger

Sound recordists : Olivier Mauvezin, Agnès Ravez, Jean-Pierre Laforce

Costume designer : Marie Le Garrec

Author of original work : François Bégaudeau

Camera operator : Catherine Pujol

Production Manager : Michel Dubois

Press Attaché (film) : André-Paul Ricci

Continuity supervisor : Brigitte Tijou

Production designers : Sabine Barthélémy, Hélène Bellanger

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Trailer (english subtitles)

29 OCTOBER 2014

Trailer : "French Cinoche - Le Cinéma français est en voyage d'affaires" (Canal+ - 2009)

Shot between October 2008 and March 2009, this documentary gives us the lowdown on the current state of affairs for French films around the world. The film follows the travels of a host of French actors and directors participating in around a dozen promotional initiatives organized by Unifrance, including French film festivals, international film festivals, previews and premiere screenings, press junkets, and so forth.

Among artists featured are Laurent Cantet, who was in New York to present his film Entre les murs (The Class), Agnès Varda taking part in interviews in Paris, Juliette Binoche as president of the Tokyo French Film Festival, Cédric Klapisch introducing his film Paris in Moscow, Josiane Balasko promoting her film Cliente (Client aka A French Gigolo) in Rome, Dany Boon promoting Le Code a changé (Change of Plans) in Brussels, and Gérard Jugnot presenting Faubourg 36 (Paris 36) in Australia.

These artists offer us their off-the-cuff comments and impressions during breaks between interviews, photo sessions, press conferences, at gala dinners, premiere screenings, meetings with audiences, and other promotional events.

This 60-minute documentary, which was made possible thanks to the participation of the CNC and Canal+, takes us backstage at these cultural and promotional initiatives around the world and gives us an insight into one of the aspects of Unifrance’s day-to-day work in support of French cinema.

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