La classe - Entre les murs

Five Attention-Getting Turns

FRANÇOIS BÉGAUDEAU is a man of parts — onetime punk rocker, film critic of French Playboy, journalist, novelist, media star and teacher in France's public school system, a job from which he's on a leave of absence. Now he can add screenwriter and actor to his résumé. In Laurent Cantet's film “The Class” (Dec. 25), the Palme d'Or winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Mr. Bégaudeau plays a version of himself, which may sound easy but isn't. And he does it very well.
The semifictional movie, for which Mr. [...]

di Karen Durbin, articolo completo (11907 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 2 Novembre 2008