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- Laurent Cantet was born on April 11, 1961 in Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Class (2008), Human Resources (1999) and Time Out (2001). He was married to Isabelle Coursin. He died on April 25, 2024 in Paris, France.
- SpouseIsabelle Coursin(? - April 25, 2024) (his death, 2 children)
- Graduated from France's most prestigious film school, IDHEC (renamed La fémis).
- Graduated from L'IDHEC (La Fémis).
- After initially working in television, he became assistant director to Marcel Ophuls for Veillées d'armes (1994), a documentary about the siege of Sarajevo.
- His film Entre les murs (The Class) won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
- Laurent Cantet was a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
- [2018 interview] I think we're going through a really precarious period in film production, and I very much fear that it's going to be a lot more difficult make my kind of cinema. If you make films that don't exactly announce themselves as surefire hits, you feel like you're walking a tightrope. There's less money overall, and more of it gets concentrated in the same few projects. In France, things are more difficult today than they were 10 years ago. A decade ago, Canal Plus would help finance a lot more productions. Moreover, there's been a recent inflation in terms of budgets and resources spent. I really don't want to partake in that trend. I don't want to take larger scale films in order to show my evolution as a director.
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