After the success of his most famous film, Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to congratulate him personally, but Cantet refused to go to the meeting.
He died at the age of 63, as a result of an unspecified illness Laurent Cantet French film director. His most famous film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 The class, which shows how students from different ethnic backgrounds try to blend in and learn together in an ethnically diverse French high school. Cantet François Bégaudeau he adapted his novel based on his own school experiences into a film and entrusted Bégaudeau with the character of the main character teacher.
The class it was not only a critical, but also a major audience success in France. The Guardian recalls that the President of the Republic at the time wanted to personally congratulate Cantet, Nicolas Sarkozythe director refused to go to the meeting because, according to him, it was Sarkozy who made life difficult for immigrants in France.
Cantet then completed five more feature films. Among them, they were also distributed in Hungary Havana nightt, in which middle-aged members of a group of friends talk about the possibility of emigration and their life at home in Cuba.
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