
High-school life isn't easy for Kaspar and class pushover Joosep, both 16. Without meaning to, Kaspar defends Joosep against classmates' bullying, but every time Kaspar tries to help, it backfires, and the class takes it out on Joosep. Kaspar just wants his friends, his girl, and his unassuming life back. Joosep wants to regain his dignity and have any chance to switch to a high school far away, But their classmates are relentless, going further and further with each incident... (Full plot summary below)
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High-school life isn't easy for Kaspar and class pushover Joosep, both 16. Without meaning to, Kaspar defends Joosep against classmates' bullying, but every time Kaspar tries to help, it backfires, and the class takes it out on Joosep. Kaspar just wants his friends, his girl, and his unassuming life back. Joosep wants to regain his dignity and have any chance to switch to a high school far away, But their classmates are relentless, going further and further with each incident.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe keen observations of The Class ultimately become a remedial education in themselves. |
| Film.comJonathan F. RichardsBut ultimately it's a fascinating, sometimes exhilarating movie that seems to make a genuine contact with the classroom, and shows us an educational system struggling, and managing, to survive. |
| culturevulture.netBeverly BerningAt the heart of The Class is an exciting rapport between a teacher and his students, one in which language and ideas are constantly being tossed about and questioned. |
| NewsdayRafer GuzmanPowerful, mesmerizing and full of moments that linger long after the bell rings. |
| Houston ChronicleAmy BiancolliBy rough estimate, maybe 80 percent of the movie consists of these student-teacher slanging matches, but it's engrossing. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmTo say this is an important film would perhaps be offputting - but it is, and please don't be offput. |
| Metro (UK)Larushka Ivan-ZadehWhat emerges is a high-school movie that is remarkably enthralling and complex. A quietly outstanding microcosm of modern society that's anything but ABC. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawFrench director Laurent Cantet does something miraculous with it in this fresh piece of humanist, realist, optimist cinema. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaAposta na ambigüidade e na sensação de estarmos acompanhando os fatos à medida que estes se desenrolam num ambiente de improviso que sempre valoriza o acaso. |
| thelondonpaperStuart McGurkA satisfying prime antidote to surface-level cinema. |