The French director Laurent Cantet He has died at the age of 63 due to cancer that had already affected the realization of his latest projects a few years ago, according to what the newspaper has published. Liberation.
In fact, until his last days he was working on the pre-production of what would have been his next film with the production company Marie-Ange Lucciani (Anatomy of a fall), with whom he would have worked again after his last feature film, Arthur Rambo (2021).
Class (2008), the film with which he won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival unanimously and with Sean Penn as president of the Jury, remains as the culminates a filmography focused on the themes of social justice and a naturalistic staging to develop very detailed and intimate character studies.
The son of teachers, Cantet blurred the border between documentary and fiction with this film about the Language and Literature teacher at the high school in a troubled neighborhood of Paris in which he adapted his protagonist’s own experiences, François Bégaudeau, who played himself.
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