Laurent Cantet’s 'The Class'
Life Inside
By Luke Davies
In the staff room at the beginning of a school year, François (François Bégaudeau), a French teacher at a Parisian middle school, chats with the new history teacher, who is outlining with matter-of-fact certainty his term plan for Year 9. The teacher's ideas seem gra
Sonya Hartnett’s 'Butterfly'
Unhappy Families
By Craig Sherborne
If we didn't have childhoods we'd be much better people. We'd start out as grown-ups innocent as lambs. We wouldn't have behind us all those early years of practising vices: greed, duplicity, cruelty, bullying, indolence, vandalism, bullshitting, cronyism, hyp