La classe - Entre les murs

In Laurent Cantet's film, a teacher interacts with a group of multicultural students, but there is so much more than that

The power of "The Class" will sneak up on you. It did that to the audience at the film's Cannes premiere, and it did it to the Sean Penn-led festival jury, which startled itself by unanimously awarding this picture the Palme d'Or. It is that surprising, and that good. That quality of surprise was very much on the mind of French director Laurent Cantet. "We did not want our narrative thread to be obvious immediately," he's said. "We wanted the characters to develop progressively without really seeing them coming. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4368 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 19 dicembre 2008