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Laurent Cantet, French Director Who Won Palme d’Or for ‘The Class,’ Dies at 63
Laurent Cantet, the French director who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for his film 'The Class,' has died. He was 63.
“The Class” is based on the novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau and is a semi-autobiographical account of his experience as a teacher in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. After studying at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in Paris and working in television, Cantet released his first feature film, “Human Resources,” in 1999. Cantet’s other credits include “Heading South” (2005), about sexual tourism in Haiti; the anthology film “7 Days in Havana” (2012); “Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang” (2012), based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name; the comedy-drama “Return to Ithaca” (2014); and “The Workshop” (2017), which follows a group of young people from the La Ciotat commune in the south of France.
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