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Just out on DVD, “The Class” is French film that looks so real, you might think it’s a documentary. The screenplay is based on a memoir by a teacher ? who also stars in the movie. Sarah Elzas talked with the film’s director, Laurent Cantet, who spent several months in a Paris high school in preparing for the film.

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