Laurent Cantet

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a w...

Who is this Karim D.? The new young writer whom the media can't get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo, the author of old, hate-fueled messages which are dredged up, one day, from social media websites?