Year : 2008
Country: France
Genres: Drama
IMDB Rating: 7.6
Director: Laurent Cantet
Actor: Henriette Kasaruhanda,Juliette Demaille,Justine Wu,Francois Begaudeau,Agame Malembo-Emene,Angelica Sancio,Arthur Fogel,Boubacar Toure,Burak Ozyilmaz,Carl Nanor,Cherif Bounaidja Rachedi,Dalla Doucoure,Damien Gomes,Esmeralda Ouertani,Eva Paradiso

Plot Summary

Teacher Francois Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be as fair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit on the student evaluation committee. Marin’s class this year of fourteen and fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although the names and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure…