A new Adjani film???


This seems to have come in under the radar. Does any one have any information on this film? Does Adjani have a lead role or is it another cameo appearance?

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I guess I will answer my own question:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/19/MV04160CF1 .DTL

Berlin's legacy overshadows film festival
Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic
Friday, February 20, 2009

…Another French entry, "Skirt Day," was more interesting. A mix of black comedy and social comment, the film marks the screen return of Isabelle Adjani, who plays a frustrated teacher in an ethnically diverse school who finally gets the attention of her students by holding them at gunpoint.
"Skirt Day" is a mess, but it comes as a refreshing antidote to a glut of politically correct films overtaking Europe - the same film, over and over - about how wonderful immigrants are, and if one happens to turn nasty or violent, it's your fault for being a greedy Western slime. By the way, the film's title refers to the short skirt Adjani wears to work that fatal day. The sartorial choice sets off her students, who come from cultures that tell them a woman in a skirt is a prostitute or loose woman.

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Adjani in this film had the lead role.

she’s attempting, as teacher, to hold a class on Moliere’s play “Le bourgeois gentilhomme” in the school’s small theater, while she discovers a gun in a pupil's bag...

This film is not Not just a good feature, but great !

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Thanks for the review. Hopefully this film is eventually screened over here in the States.

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One of the greatest Adjani performance ever. The film itself is not perfect but se is really fantastic as the french teatcher with a nervous breakdown
She should be on stage for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival to give the Golden Palm to the winner...

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Unfortunately this film reflects very well on the climate in which many teachers have to work in France nowadays. If nothing is done about it soon, this sort of situation might very well happen...

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