The Class (2008)

I wanted to but couldn't!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This film will take you back to your childhood classroom memories, guaranteed!

There are many things that this movie illustrates to what a teacher must face. This gives you a glimpse by putting yourself on the shoes of a teacher. The movie is able to show that, but in itself it lacks something. Compared to Freedom Writers or Stand and Deliver, this movie is not "engaging" for the lack of a proper word. I was disappointed to watch this movie maybe because I was looking something inspirational that could motivate teachers in doing what they do best. I do appreciate this film for highlighting what only educators are able to see in the shoes of a teacher.

a book. an adaptation under control of author. result - a slice of life from an average French school. and realistic portrait of European education system, confronting with many challenges, looking the best manner to give a correct message to students, mixing tensions from different sources and living on the fragile border between tolerance and abuse. the film, like the book, has the basic virtue to wake up a society who ignores the aspects of school and who defines the status of teacher as result of memories about period of each of us was student. portrait of a delicate equilibrium, it is more than a film. it is more than reflection of activity as teacher. it is a perfect support for discover and understand a society far by clichés, expectations or predictable projects. because it is profound different by classic movies about relations between teacher and his students.and this is the detail who does "Entre les murs a must see".

Entre Les Murs This movie won the Palme d'Or? This must be some mistake. The fact that this movie won a best feature film award makes the whole competition look remedial. If you're considering watching this movie, think twice. This was three hours of my life I will never get back. Talk about a waste of time. If you're looking for something to put you to sleep, you found the perfect thing! Entre Les Murs is nine months in the life of French teacher, M. Marin played by Francois Begaudeau. His goal is to help 13-15 year old, troubled students in the outskirts of Paris. This drama, directed by Laurent Cantent, was released in 2008 and in the same year won a Palme D'or. The movie shows the relationships and conflicts the students have with M. Marin and how they change. It shows whether or not the conflicts get resolved throughout the course of the movie. As I said in the previous paragraph, this movie centers on French teacher, M. Marin. He has been teaching for four years and is very experienced. I would describe him as tolerant of the students' terrible behavior but he is very unprofessional about many of the situations and conflicts that unfold in the movie. He instigates many of the arguments he gets into with his students and to make it worse, he escalates the situation by arguing back childishly. However, he cares about the students a lot and he really wants to help them be successful. He is very patient with their behavior and he never gives up on them, even when others do. The students in this movie have diverse nationalities such as Chinese, African and Caucasian. They are so disrespectful to M. Marin and always question every little thing he does or tries to teach them. The heated chain of events in this movie, at one point, led to violence. A key idea in this film that really caught my eye was the undeveloped plot. Even after the movie was over, I was still unaware of what I had just watched. I have no idea what the plot of the movie was or what the point of making this into a movie was. The first hour of this movie was very repetitive. All it consisted of was M. Marin teaching lessons. At one point I felt as if I was in class, just sitting there learning the lessons he was teaching. There was no climax or anything that was really exciting or good to look forward to while watching this movie. The ending was also very abrupt and just kind of ended strangely. Nothing about this movie stood out to me though, and I couldn't establish a concrete plot to this movie. You can probably already tell I was not a fan of this movie at all. This was a terrible movie and I have no idea what the producer was thinking when they decided to make this into a movie. This was previously a novel and to be honest it should've just stayed that way. This movie wasn't good because it had no story line, it had no plot and frankly it was just boring. It was boring because nothing interesting or exciting happened. The teacher taught some lessons and fought with the students. That's literally all that happened. Other than a few intense scenes of silence or violence, this movie was horrible. I struggled to even stay awake while watching it. I guess I would recommend this to French teenagers or people who like watching a teacher stand at a board and teach for an hour. I would definitely not recommend this to anyone and if you're reading this trust me when I say it, Do NOT watch this movie!​