Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63
by The Guardian
The Guardian— Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projectsLaurent Cantet, the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled some of the most complex issues of modern French society, including meritocracy, the education system, diversity and class struggle, has died aged 63 after an illness.Cantet was best known outside France for his film Entre les Murs (The Class), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2008. It depicted life...
Screen—Laurent Cantet, Palme d’Or-winning French director, dies. The French director of films including 2008's The Class was 63.
The Guardian—High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films. In Human Resources, Time Out and The Class, the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker – who has died aged 63 – addressed French and European society at all levelsLaurent Cantet was a classic product of the French cinema industry: a deeply intelligent, high-minded progressive film-maker of the same generation as Robin Campillo and Dominik Moll whose supremely literate, emotionally committed, stylish and well-acted movies aspired to address French and European society at all levels.Cantet made films that...
Daily Mail—Tragedy for family as 15-year-old girl dies in car accident years after her brother died aged just 13 and another sibling passed away aged 16 in separate incidents. Molly Dempsey, 15, was killed in a single-vehicle crash just before 5am on May 5 in Baltinglass, in the Irish county of Wicklow.