If have a love for culture and enjoy watching foreign films, then why not head down to the Ventnor Winter gardens tonight?
The Ventnor Film Society season is back in full swing and tonight’s offering is Entre les Murs (The Class).
Based on Begaudeau’s autobiographical novel, and with him playing the teacher, the film has a documentary feel, following a school year and all the vicissitudes experienced by a young man grappling with the education of 15 year olds from the Parisian outer suburbs.
The climax is a fraught disciplinary hearing, but what makes this film is its honest and perceptive examination of the daily engagement of the teacher with his pupils.
An endlessly fascinating film which, unlike reality TV, does not deal with embarrassment or humiliation but with the idealism of the teacher and his class, and arguably that of the audience as well.
Prices
Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Single Ticket: £4.50 (£3.50 Concessionary)
Concessionary tickets are available to students, senior citizens and the unwaged.
