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The Class / Entre les murs Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Laurent Cantet, Country: France, Release: 2008, Runtime: 128 Take a classroom full of outspoken, multiethnic teens from a tough Parisian junior high school, none of them professional actors, add a real-life teacher trying to make a difference, and you’ve got Laurent Cantet’s utterly engrossing portrait of the new France, the triumphant winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes. François Bégaudeau, from whose nonfiction account of teaching in just such a school the film is adapted, plays himself in this unsentimental, superior addition to the canon of classroom movies, set over the course of an academic year. Cantet, a veteran of several Film Society programs including the New York Film Festival (Time Out, NYFF 2001), has pioneered a new kind of social cinema, one that explores the key issues of our day and avoids sermonizing and easy conclusions. The Class is the finest and most important example of his work yet. A Sony Pictures Classics release. Laurent Cantet b. 1961, Melle, Deux-Sevres, France 2005 Heading South 2001 Time Out NYFF 1999 Human Resources ND/NF 1997 Les Sanguinaires

Buy Tickets Fri Sep 26: 8* *Avery Fisher Hall $40/$20 (reserved) Fri Sep 26: 9** **Ziegfeld Theatre $40/$35 (reserved)