If you're not in the L.A. or New York City areas, don't get your hopes up about seeing The Class this week or anytime soon. It's opening in those cities only, in time to be considered for the Oscars (it's France's entry for best foreign language film). And then who knows what will happen to it? If it wins, we might see it again. If not, add it to your Netflix queue. After all, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes -- no small feat. Though the trailer makes it a little difficult to tell exactly what the crux of the film is. I mean, sure it's about a teacher and some students in his class. And they sort of bicker and are disrespectful to him and try his patience. But that can't be it, can it? I mean, most movies about teachers end up having to be so inspiring and moving and earth-shattering and THEIR TEACHER CHANGES THEIR LIVES AND THEY CHANGE HIS and all of that. You know. Could this movie actually just be about an ordinary teacher, and not one who has Tourette's or is secretly a junkie? Huh. What's the point in a movie that might actually portray reality? I mean, don't we get that, like, every day?

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