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Laurent Cantet, who died today of illness at the age of 63, was an intelligent, high-minded progressive filmmaker whose literate, emotionally committed, well-acted movies addressed (and criticized) French society at all levels. French filmmaker Laurent Cantet won the 2008 Palme d’Or His most famous film was The Class (“Entre les murs”), which won the Palme […]
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The melodrama stars three superlative Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis, whose talents are not fully utilized by a rather conventional two-generational text.