The Class

Entre les murs (English title The Class) is a slow burn of a movie that cleverly chronicles a year in the classroom life of a class of tough multi ethnic school children and their French teacher within an inner city Parisian secondary school.Real life teacher and writer François Bégaudeau has been given his naturalistic reins in this documentary style drama and shines as the flawed but genuinely talented teacher François Marin, but it is the improvised looking (but apparently closely scripted) performances from the class of sparky,unruly and totally hypnotic 15 year olds that totally captivates the audience. The result on screen, is a sparkling, clever work whose ensemble cast impresses, surprises, wrong foots and disappoints you in exactly the same fashion a class might its teacher.

9/10