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Laurent Cantet Dies: French Cannes Palme D’Or Winning Director Was 63
Laurent Cantet Dies: French Cannes Palme d’Or Winning Director Was 63
Based on the semi-autobiographical book by writer François Bégaudeau about his experiences working as a literature teacher in an inner city school in Paris, The Class featured a mainly unprofessional cast including the author. His second collaboration with Anatomy of a Fall producer Marie-Angle Luciani, after 2021 film Arthur Rambo, it revolved around a teenager who embarks on a mason apprenticeship in the South of France to escape a controlling father. Cantet studied film at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris in the mid-1980s, where his contemporaries were Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand and Robin Campillo.
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