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Pretty Good

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

a book. an adaptation under control of author. result - a slice of life from an average French school. and realistic portrait of European education system, confronting with many challenges, looking the best manner to give a correct message to students, mixing tensions from different sources and living on the fragile border between tolerance and abuse. the film, like the book, has the basic virtue to wake up a society who ignores the aspects of school and who defines the status of teacher as result of memories about period of each of us was student. portrait of a delicate equilibrium, it is more than a film. it is more than reflection of activity as teacher. it is a perfect support for discover and understand a society far by clichés, expectations or predictable projects. because it is profound different by classic movies about relations between teacher and his students.and this is the detail who does "Entre les murs a must see".

In some respects this is Etre et Avoir both urbanized and upgraded from ecole to lycee; at yet another remove it's a latter-day Blackboard Jungle inasmuch as both titles feature multi-racial inner city schools where the pupils are more or less killing time before becoming old enough to leave. Evan Hunter based his novel on his own experience as a teacher at a vocational school in New York but he stopped short there, unlike the author of Between The Walls who not only penned a semi-autobiographical novel but adapted it for the screen and then played the lead who is, of course, more or less himself. Strangely enough there is less violence here (2008) than there was in Blackboard Jungle in 1955 which could, of course, be taken as an encouraging sign.The kids and the teaching staff are also real and the twelve month rehearsal period results in a documentary which has been polished to fictional standards. Definitely worth a look.

The movie portraits an interracial class in a Paris town. The plot is simple. It will cover some conflicts developed in the last term of a primary school year. It's mainly focused on the relation of the class and a Language professor who seems to be the most concerned about the class of all the other teachers at school. We see a little bit of the relationships between the teachers and how they solve conflict with the students. The class has pretty colorful characters from France, Asia, and Africa mainly. If you are a teacher, you will have a lot of material to discuss about. And will enjoy how the student's stories are unveiled.

............................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FL It's very rare, indeed, when I'm at a staggering loss for words. Words are my business…having owned and directed my own language schools for over 35 years. But when I sat down to write this, immediately after viewing "The Class", my unmitigated ire and unbridled outrage only produced that most dreaded of conditions, anathema to all reviewers: Writer's Block! Several hours later, my blood having assuaged itself from boiling to simmer, I find myself, once again, anxious to share my impressions of this undeniably unique French film with you. "Class" refuses to be pigeon-holed. Perhaps a Documentary-Drama fusion, but not really a Docudrama, either. More akin to reality TV, only better! "Class" will certainly affect different people in strikingly different ways. How do middle-school teachers around the world maintain their grip on sanity and reality? I felt myself sliding down the slippery slope from just observing these French* kids flaunt their world-class insolence! But whatever your reaction to them, chances are "Class" will get to you like running your fingernails along a blackboard! Did you notice the asterisk on French* kids? Surprisingly, this inner-city French classroom was a veritable rainbow coalition: Africans, Caribbean Franco-Africans, Arabs, Eastern Europeans, a couple Hispanics and Chinese. Oh yes, and even some Gauls, born and raised! My spoken French is decrepit, but my ear is still fairly well-tuned and a myriad of different accents were very easy to discern, a few of them rendered somewhat haltingly. Encountering harmony and a real-time teaching classroom dynamic under these conditions pose a daunting challenge, to say the least. The problem resides in that 9th graders around the world are keenly aware of who REALLY is in control in the classroom.… They are! More often than not, their classroom comportment is an unabated and blatant non-stop provocation of whoever is teaching them. But God forbid should that teacher lapse into a single moment of normal human reaction to such constant torment! The unspoken undercurrent that is dissolving the foundations of education around the world is only too self-evident in this "Class". Just a few accusatory words from any student could instantly vaporize the career of any teacher. Francois, the real-life teacher exhibiting patience that would make Job look bi-polar in comparison, manages to defy expectation and give us an unprecedented surprise ending; apparently there IS something that most students still fear! Recommended to all teachers and anyone interested in the teaching process. 10*.....ENJOY/DISFRUTELA!Any comments, questions or observations, in English or Español, are most welcome! [email protected]