"The Class"

Laurent Cantet's "The Class," in which the characters' roles are played by real students and teachers, covers one school year in a French classroom, though it's not a documentary, nor is it your standard drama about the joys, triumphs and frustrations of shaping young minds. "The Class" veers between those two forms rather than conforming to them, and because of that, it's subtler and more… » Full Story on Salon.com