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Remarkable film

posted 12 years ago by heavythumb
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This film is about so very much: death, war, school systems, classrooms, prejudice, coping and emotion...

I highly recommend this film; it is quite powerful and thought-provoking.

[–] fanaticita 12 years ago

I loved the film. I had a lot of questions, but they were not really relevant to the plot. At the end of the film several people in the audience (where I saw the film) were sobbing. I didn't react so strongly, but I was very moved.

[–] movieZombie 12 years ago

i was fine until Lazhar read his story for the children to correct.....tears flowed and i'm glad to know i wasn't alone with that.

[–] milesgordon 11 years ago

I never cry because of a movie, never, but I cried at the end of this one. Compassionate humanistic film

[–] emvan 12 years ago

I finished watching the film forty minutes ago and I've still got tears in my eyes.

Just a lovely film.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

[–] PoppyTransfusion 11 years ago

Mostly I think this film is about life and death and how to cope with deaths in the midst of life - that of the victims (the teacher and Bachir's family) and the survivors. Central to this theme was that of guilt and 'could I/we have done differently' to which the issue of abandonment was connected.

This is a marvellous film for teaching, in the best sense of that word, children and adults emotional intelligence. I hope that doesn't sound pompous but I'm not sure how else to express the powerful nature of the film.

Fatima had a fetish for a wiggle in her scoot

[–] kelly-wilson 11 years ago

I thought the film had heart.

It reminded me that whatever one's pedagogy it is best grounded in love, and it portrayed children as the complex little people they are.

I hate "teacher movies". I thought this one was very good. Here's a brief reaction:

http://mymusingsonfilm.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/monsieur-lazhar-2011/

[–] Xcalat3 11 years ago

true a very thought provoking film.

8/10

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

[–] t3cii-1 11 years ago

I think the movie could have used another 20 minutes. Most of the characters, with the possible exception of the kids, were too vaguely defined, including Lazhar. I feel like we still knew very little about him when the movie ended, or what precisely motivated him to try to become the teacher. There was very little meat to this movie.

Jack "Things could be worse"
Hurley "...HOW?!"