After our screening of Laurent Cantet’s Cannes-winning “The Class” (“Entres Les Murs”) about the mercurial and sometimes explosive life of a modern day classroom, at the New York Film Festival. We stuck around for the Q&A where Cantet spoke about his filmmaking process. Much of the film was done in two takes, one a scripted take and one an improvised one and Cantet remarked how surprised he was that both takes would seamlessly work together in the editing work. “The Class” is an extremely dynamic piece of work, and makes you genuinely feel all the tensions, both racial, economic, social and pedantic that are featured throughout the film, but even that’s too reductive and doing the kinetic film an injustice. It’s definitely one of the best films we’ve seen at the NYFF and having won the prestigious Palme d’Or, it’s no wonder that France has already submitted the film above many, many other 2008 French films as it’s official Foreign Oscar contender.
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