France's Laurent Cantet Wins Palme d'Or at Cannes - by Farah Nayeri
Entre les Murs,'' a classroom drama directed by Frenchman Laurent Cantet, won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or award for best picture at a red-carpet gala today, giving France its first Cannes victory in 21 years. The verdict came as a surprise. Cantet's two-hour movie (titled ``The Class'' in English and among the last to be screened), shows a high-school teacher challenged by his students in a troubled suburb of Paris, and is based on an autobiographical book by Francois Begaudeau, who plays himself.
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