Laurent Canté, winner of the Palme d’Or in 2008 for the film “Entre les Murs”, dies

Palme d’Or 2008 for his film Between the wallsDirector Laurent Cantet died on Thursday, April 25, at the age of 63, his producer confirmed world. “He died this morning in Paris of illness.”His agent, Isabelle de la Pateliere, told AFP.

A reserved director with a supposedly social texture, Laurent Cantet made Cannes history in 2008 by receiving the Palme d’Or for his film Between the walls, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn. Half documentary, half fiction, with a budget of 2.4 million euros, it revolves around French teacher François Bigaudeau (author of the novel of the same name from which the film was inspired) and students aged between 13 and 15, with multiple geographical and scientific skills. Social origins, in a Parisian college.

The Cannes Film Festival reacted immediately, paying tribute to A “A fierce humanitarian, he searched for light despite social violence, and found hope despite the harsh reality.”. Film director and screenwriter “Whose cohesive and humane work creates sensitive cinema, on the surface of the skin and on the surface of society.”He adds the festival that describes Between the walls like film “With disturbing nature”. “A good film director, reserved and full of humanity, in no way dazzled by the Palme d’Or, Laurent Canté succeeded with precision and a sense of rhythm in the most difficult thing in cinema: the depiction of conversations, that is, life.”Gilles Jacob was received by former Cannes Film Festival President.

Film project for 2025

The son of teachers, Laurent Cantet was the inheritor of his parents’ culture. “The people are engaged in a certain number of issues, in which secular and republican morality is largely embodied.”. Another family was formed during his studies in Edek, Vimis’s grandfather, with a clan of comrades, to the point that he founded a production company with them, Serenade.

Laurent Canté’s first four feature films, in his view, aim to describe the world and its complexity, and they display great coherence. A confrontation between a working father and his son who was promoted to human resources during the implementation of the 35-hour week system in a factory (HR; Lies of a fired man who invents a job at the United Nations and kills his family so that his deception is not exposed (Time tableInspired by the case of Jean-Claude Romand); Leave mature women in Haiti who pay local sex workers (south; Chronicles of college life that emerge as a platform for national unrest, raising questions about power, inequality of opportunity, social and cultural integration, and illegal immigrants (Between the walls). Each time, the depiction of work includes: workers/managers, business consultants/unemployed people, sex workers, teachers/students and the principal’s office who have lived through a Guantanamo-like experience.

After that, it will tell the story of five young girls who form a gang so that they can fight masculinity and men’s control over women (Fox fire), which is the return to Havana after sixteen years of exile in Spain (Return to Ithaca) The story of a well-known Parisian novelist who runs a writing workshop in La Ciotat with a group of young people in the field of integration (Workshop), or a young writer publishes his first novel while his old homophobic and anti-Semitic comments appear online (Arthur Rimbaud). The director was working on a film project titled the Apprenticewhich was scheduled to be released in 2025.