2024-04-29 14:11:41
French film director Laurent Cantet Palme d’Or in 2008 with Class and author of films shot in Cuba and Haiti, died on Thursday at the age of 63, his agent informed AFP.
“He died this morning in Paris due to an illness,” he said. Isabelle de la Patellière.
Author of nine feature films, Cantet was currently working on a new project, “L’apprenti”, scheduled for release in 2025.
In 2012 he participated in a collective work, “Seven Days in Havana,” along with six other directors, including Benicio del Toro. The film captured daily life in the Cuban capital through seven episodes.
Two years later he returned to Havana to film “Regreso a Itaca”, an ensemble film about the memories of five friends after the return of one of them from exile, with Isabel Santos and Jorge Perugorría as part of the cast.
“The Class” was set in a Parisian school and narrated, with the air of a documentary, the daily life of a French teacher, faced with a class of rebellious teenagers in a troubled neighborhood.
Other well-known films by Laurent Cantet are “Human Resources” (1999), about labor relations within a French company, and “To the South”, set in Haiti and filmed in 2005 with Charlotte Rampling and Karen Young.
The Cannes Film Festival, which will begin its 77th edition on May 14, greeted in Cantet a “fierce humanist, who sought light despite social violence, who found hope despite the harshness of reality.”
He was a director and screenwriter “whose coherent and humanistic work draws a sensitive cinema, on the surface and on the surface of society,” the statement added.
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2024-04-29 14:11:41