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'The Class' Is a Well-Done and Extremely Uncomfortable Piece of Artnew
You're trapped in teen hell, much more real than what you get on Gossip Girl or 90210. No one is shiny and perfect, and they don't have trust funds or romantic theme music that plays when they look longingly into each other's eyes. Instead, everything feels like a fight about to happen.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-12-2009 |
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'The Class': To Sir, With Attitudenew
French cinema is famously dialogue-heavy, but next to Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale, The Class qualifies hands down as the chattiest movie of the year.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-19-2008 |
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Last Tango in Haitinew
North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-30-2006 |
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Tags: Heading South, Laurent Cantet
Outside of the Groovenew
Haitian politics and turmoil play a smart role in this story of older women and younger prostitution.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-18-2006 |
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Tags: Heading South, Laurent Cantet
Beached Wails
Heading South understands the Third World-tourist dynamic, and neatly delineates the way two different kinds of people can live different kinds of existence in the same place.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-18-2006 |
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Tags: Heading South, Laurent Cantet
