THE CLASS - Laurent Cantet - 2008 - Paramount Cinema
Winner of Cannes in 2008. Shot like a doco, but is in fact scripted from lead actor’s own book. Perhaps a bit long, but still an excellent film about a teacher in Paris and his class of 14 and 15 year olds. All the kids use their real names on screen, so it makes me think that a lot of the classroom scenes were only loosely scripted. Most of the film takes place in the classroom itself, which gave it a claustrophobic feel. Pretty awesome.
