This Thursday, April 25, Laurent Cantet’s agent confirmed his death. The 63-year-old director notably won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for the very accurate film adaptation of the novel. Between the walls.
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It’s a Black Thursday for the filmmaker’s loved ones and fans. This April 25, 2024, Laurent Cantet died at the age of 63. “He died this morning in Paris of illness”indicated his agent, Isabelle de la Patellière, to AFP, thus confirming the words of Release. This painful news comes while the director was working on a project to be released soon. Titled The apprenticethe film was due to be released in 2025… Among the feature films that stand out in its catalog, we find Between the walls which earned him a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
Laurent Cantet gave Jalil Lespert a chance in his debut
Born in Deux-Sèvres, Laurent Cantet studied in depth in the world of cinema. After having accumulated varied experiences (he is sometimes chief operator or assistant director of short films), he threw himself into the deep end in 1999 with his first feature film, Human ressources. Halfway between documentary and melodrama, the work met with critical success and was crowned with two César Awards: Best Debut Work and Best Young Actor for Jalil Lespert, who made his debut alongside Laurent Cantet. The latter, ready to repeat the feat, leaves The timetable, a second film as dramatic as ever, this time tackling the world of work. He won the Grand Prix for best screenwriter. But it was not until seven years later that he achieved consecration.
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Laurent Cantet meets success
In 2008, Laurent Cantet adapted the novel by François Bégaudeau Between the walls released two years earlier. Through the pages, the author recounts his daily life as a French teacher in a college recognized as a priority education area. The director transcribes the reality of this civil servant without embellishment and wins the famous Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. He thus achieves a real feat since he is the first Frenchman to receive this prize in 21 years. He subsequently returned numerous times to the Croisette until 2017, where he presented his film The Workshop defended by the main actress Marina Foïs.
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