Laurent Cantet

There is a domestication--that when you go out of a school, you have to behave like society wants you to behave...Politically speaking, I wouldn't accept it very easily, but I have to admit I've been socialized by school too.

A great achievement in cinematic realism...when conflict arises, and it frequently does, the filmmakers refuse to instruct us on who’s right and who’s wrong, making the film its own kind of Socratic lecture.