The Class
Starring François Bégaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, and Laura Baquela
Directed by Laurent Cantet
Rated PG-13
All I knew about The Class is what most people who knew about knew about it: It won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Over the years, I've learned not to completely trust film festival awards, primarily because their juries are usually comprised of several actors, and actors make bad movies all the time thinking they're good movies.
I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11 picked up the Golden Palm once, so, you know...
I also knew that The Class had recently become an Oscar nominee in the Best Foreign Language Film category this year, although the likely winner is Waltz With Bashir, which could've been nominated in the documentary and animated categories, as well.
So that encompasses all I knew about the film, and in most cases, when I can avoid knowing about a movie going in,...
Starring François Bégaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, and Laura Baquela
Directed by Laurent Cantet
Rated PG-13
All I knew about The Class is what most people who knew about knew about it: It won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Over the years, I've learned not to completely trust film festival awards, primarily because their juries are usually comprised of several actors, and actors make bad movies all the time thinking they're good movies.
I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11 picked up the Golden Palm once, so, you know...
I also knew that The Class had recently become an Oscar nominee in the Best Foreign Language Film category this year, although the likely winner is Waltz With Bashir, which could've been nominated in the documentary and animated categories, as well.
So that encompasses all I knew about the film, and in most cases, when I can avoid knowing about a movie going in,...
- 2/20/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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