The classroom in "High School Classroom" may be the classroom of any western country, and I believe many teachers feel the same way. This is a power struggle between teachers and students: the teacher wants the students to do well, but the students disagree with the teacher on the definition of "good". It's a fair film that doesn't favor either side, but instead makes the efforts of both parties seem futile.
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The movie is bursting with life, energy, fears, frustrations and the quick laughter of a classroom hungry for relief. It avoids lockstep plotting and plunges into the middle of the fray, helping us become familiar with the students, suggesting more than it tells, Allowing us to identify with many points of view. It is uncannily convincing.
The film is full of life and energy, life's fears, setbacks, and jokes in a choking classroom. The film does not fall into the traditional rigid plot construction, but pluges into the middle of the fray, allowing us to gradually get acquainted with many students, feel more off-screen things, and understand their viewpoints, which is surprisingly feasible high (uncannily convincing).
The reason for that, I learn, involves the method of the director, Laurent Cantet, one of the most gifted new French directors. He began with a best-selling autobiographical novel by a teacher, Francois Begaudeau. He cast Begaudeau as the teacher. He worked for a year with a group of students, improvising and filming scenes. So convincing is the film that it seems documentary, but all of the students, I learn, are playing roles and not themselves.
The reason for this effect is that the author I think it's because of the technique of director Laurent Cantet. He is one of the newest genius directors in France. He picked the best-selling autobiographical novel of a teacher named Francois Begaudeau. He also cast the author as the teacher. He spent a year with the students, improvising and filming scenes in the film. The film looks like it's a documentary, but according to the author, all the students are acting as characters, not themselves.
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