The Class Page #10

Synopsis: Teacher François Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be as fair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit on the student evaluation committee. Marin's class this year of fourteen and fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although the names and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure. Even Marin has his breaking point, which may result in him doing things he would probabl
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Laurent Cantet
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
92
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
PG-13
Year:
2008
128 min
$3,700,000
Website
1,853 Views


- What you learned, not liked.

If you liked it, you learned.

So what did you learn?

All about volcanoes, earthquakes,

...plates...

Convergence and divergence,

...movement of the Earth's plates,

- It was fascinating.

- It interested you?

- Yeah.

- Good.

Well, in mathematics,

.. trigonometry Pythagoras

theorem, Thales theorem.

I'll stop you there.

You can't sit there and brag...

...you learned Pythagoras theorem.

Recite it for us

If, in a triangle

...two sides are equal to

...If the square rot

If the square of two sides

is equal to the square

...the square of the hypotenuse

then the triangle's a rectangle.

More or less, yes

It's spot on

All right. I believe you.

In history, I learned

about triangular trade.

The fact that ships left Europe...

...with manufactured goods that

they took to Africa to trade for men,

...whod became slaves

that they took to America to work.

Then they took the money

they made back to Europe.

That's triangular trade

Chemistry

What in chemistry?

Combustion

What's that?

Blending Fehling's solution

and glucose.

What do you get?

Heat up test-tube,

...and it changes color.

- What's the interest?

- The interest?

I dunno. Why teach it to us

if there's no interest?

Reproduction

What did you learn

about human reproduction?

Human reproduction...

Well, the sperm

...gets into the ovum

then you wait 9 months,

then you do a sonogram

and then it comes out

The sperm does?

No, the baby

The human being that's inside.

- Khoumba?

- Me?

Yes. That is your name?

Yes.

In music, I learned to play

the alto recorder...

and in Spanish

The recorder in Spanish?

No, in music, I learned

to play the alto recorder.

- Right

- And other stuff in Spanish

- Good.

Can you say something

to us in Spanish?

- And that means?

- "It's the vacation soon".

I didn't learn anything

You cant spend 9 months at

school and not learn anything.

I'm the living proof

You got something

from the books we read.

- Your books are shite.

- They're what?

They're useless.

What about a book

you read by yourself?

The books I read?

Well, there's The Republic

Platons "Republic"?

You read that?

How come?

My big sister had it

- She does philosophy?

- No, law

So what's it about?

Well, there's this guy...

His name's Socrates

Yeah, Socrates.

He stops people in the street

and asks them:

"Are you sure of thinking

what you think?"

"Are you sure of doing

what you do? and so on?"

After that, people

start getting confused.

They ask questions.

The guy's too much

What does he ask people about?

Everything.

Love, religion, God

people, everything

- It's good you read it

- I know

It's not a skank's book!

Wait a second. Before you leave,

here are your self-portraits

One by one. When you have

yours, you can go.

What is it?

What is it?

These are the self-portraits

that you wrote

...and that we made up

with the class photo and so on

You too, Eva.

You don't have one?

- You look good in it

- Cut it out

You're like a leader

Very good.

- Good bye, Sir.

- Good bye.

- Have a good vacation.

- You too

- Sir?

- Yes

What is it?

I didn't learn anything

What? That doesn't mean anything

Earlier, all the others...

...said they'd learned something

Compared to them, I learned nothing

You learned as much as them

They had to think hard too.

It's not easy

to remember what you learned...

But I don't understand

What do you mean?

I don't understand what we do.

In French?

In school

You cant say you dont

understand everything.

Thats not true...

I dont want to go

to vocational school.

Theres no question of that yet

Youre moving on to the next year.

Youll have plenty of time

to think about your future

Vocational school isnt

an absolute certainty

It all depends on how you do next year

But I dont want to.

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Laurent Cantet

Laurent Cantet ([lɔʁɑ̃ kɑ̃tɛ]; born 15 June 1961) is a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter. His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.His 2001 film L'Emploi du temps was placed at 99 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s, number 9 of The Guardian's Best Films of the Noughties, and number 11 at The A.V. Club's top 50 films of the 2000s (decade).On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, for the film Entre les murs. more…

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