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Lessons Learned in Monsieur Lazhar

04/12/2012

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Quiet control in storytelling, Philippe Falardeau chose a situation in the first continuous scene when a beloved teacher is discovered having hanged herself in the classroom. Not wanting the students’ backgrounds to become an issue in a story that had enough issues to contend with, his choice of images included a private school, the characters […]

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