Director: Laurent Cantet (2001)
Vincent has lost his job but cannot tell his family, instead inventing a prestigious new professional post that keeps him busy with business trips. Telling lies becomes a full-time occupation and, to maintain his income, he becomes involved in shady business deals. But the growing tensions of his double life are closing [...]
Director: Laurent Cantet (2005)
Cantet follows up his critically acclaimed “Time Out,” set during an austere wintertime in France and Switzerland, with “Heading South,” set in Haiti during the late 1970s. Based on stories by Dany Laferriere, the heat comes not only from the summertime tropical setting. Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, and Louise Portal head a [...]
Director: Laurent Cantet (2008)
“The Class” is based on an autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau, a drama that follows the year in the life of a French schoolteacher working at a high-school in a tough neighborhood of Paris. Ethnicities, cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom. As amusing and inspiring as the teenage students can [...]
Director: Laurent Cantet (1999)
Franck returns to his home town from a business school in Paris. He has arranged a placement as a trainee at the factory where his father has worked for thirty years. The son is bright and well turned out and only too eager to naively suggest ways in which the management can [...]