The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008): France

Reviewed by Tamara Mamukelashvili. Viewed at the AFI Film Festival, Archlight Hollywood.

The Class is more of a documentary that has a great story, which remains the relationship between the young students towards the teachers. The good idea of this film is that any age of audience can relate to it, it definitely brings memories to audience and the experiences they’ve been through in their high school period of time.

Characters are very well represented throughout the film. The interesting element in this film is that each character is going through different things. They’re all teenagers and are in the age of just having fun and enjoying life. And on the other hand we have teacher who tries his best to teach them something but they just don’t care.

The school is located in a bad neighborhood, which totally highlight the fact how the students behave towards the teachers. Clearly shows each characters attitude towards the teachers and teacher’s attitude towards the students.

This film is very well edited and well said. It’s very realistic and has a great meaning. It is worth to see. It shows the side of the world where people live, it’s the side that is unseen by everyone and iI think need to been seen.