Death of Laurent Cantet, director of the 2008 Palme d’Or “Entre les Murs”

Laurent Cantet died at 63

Stronger than Clint Eastwood, James Gray or Steven Soderbergh, Laurent Cantet it had been according to the jury of Cannes Film Festival 2008 with Between the walls. Awarded with Palme d’Orthe film allowed its author to achieve his greatest success, attracting more and more1.5 million viewers with his feature-length quasi-documentary about a French teacher in a fourth-grade college class in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. While he was preparing his tenth feature film, The apprentice, the director is deadhis agent announced to AFP this Thursday 25 April 2024.

Old 63 years old, Laurent Cantet leaves behind the filmography of a committed director. Trained at IDHEC in 1984, where he met Dominik Moll, Vincent Dietschy and Gilles Marchand, he directed his first feature film for cinema in 2000 with Human resources. A social drama that highlighted the workers of a Norman factory on the verge of dismissal. Next, Laurent Canter proposes The program (2001), about a management consultant who hides from his wife that he has lost his job. The opportunity for the director to collaborate on the screenplay with Robin Campillo (120 beats per minute), who then returned to write the dramatic comedy South (2005) eBetween the walls (2008).

The success ofBetween the walls

Based on the book of the same name by François Bégaudeau (also in the screenplay and on screen), the film offers Laurent Cantet worldwide recognition and unexpected success for a film of its kind. Despite this success, we had to wait four years before seeing Laurent Cantet again Fox fire (2012), historical drama about a gang of young girls in the United States in 1955. It later followed Return to Ithaca (2014) e The Workshop (2017) before proposing in 2021 Arthur Rambo with Rabah Nait Oufellataken from a news story concerning a writer who sees old homophobic and anti-Semitic comments expressed by him on social networks resurface.

Sick and undergoing chemotherapy sessions (second Publication), Laurent Cantet was in the process of scouting for his next film, The apprenticeWho was due to be released in 2025.

Source: Cine Serie

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