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Unruly pupils rile their teacher in a clip from The Class French movie The Class, about life in a tough Paris school, has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The prize, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn, came at the end of the world's most prestigious film festival....
CANNES, France, May 25 (UPI) -- "The Class (Entre les murs)" took the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival in a unanimous decision by the jury, Daily Variety reported. Director Laurent Cantet's film -- based on French writer Francois Begaudeau's experiences as a middle school teacher, was...
From correspondents in Cannes May 26, 2008 07:35am Short but sweet ... Australia's Jury Prize winner Julius Avery, left, celebrates with Romanian director Marian Crisan, winner of the Palme d'Or best short film award for Megatron / AP A FRENCH film about an inspired teacher in a tough urban...
It screened yesterday after most buyers and many journalists had already gone home, but Laurent Cantet’s Parisian classroom drama Entre Les Murs (The Class) took the top prize Sunday night at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. It’s the first French film to win the Palme d’Or since Maurice Pialat’s...
It’s 2 am, and too late to be typing. It was a full evening, beginning with the awards and ending with a windblown party at the Majestic Beach, with one last screening squeezed in between. The Cannes jury, chaired by Sean Penn, awarded the top prize, the Palme d’Or, to one of the last films [...]
