The Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar subtly examines the anguish of relocation in its portrait of an Algerian school teacher whose move to Canada is fraught at every turn, writes Stephen Farber. When ...

If you’ve seen the trailers for the new Canadian film “Monsieur Lazhar,” you might be tempted to characterize it as just another “Dead Poets Society” or “To Sir With Love – that is to say, a film ...

A one-act monologue about a 50-something, immigrant substitute teacher who takes over a Montreal primary-school class coping with the recent suicide of its regular teacher seems unlikely fodder for a ...

Indefatigable filmmaker-artist Philippe Mora traces his family’s remarkable tale of courage and survival during WWII in this eye-catching if ingredient-heavy documentary. Indefatigable Australian ...

In the Montreal-set film Monsieur Lazhar, a young boy, Simon, trudges into his middle school ahead of other students and opens the door to his classroom. Inside, his teacher, Martine, is hanging from ...

The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on ...

Award-winning filmmaker Philippe Falardeau was recently included on Variety’s 2012 list of 10 Directors to Watch. Known for La Moitié Gauche du Frigo (The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge), Congorama, and ...

Director Philippe Falardeau’s new film, Monsieur Lazhar, presents various lives with seemingly few similarities forced to deal with tragedy in ways that are remarkably and movingly similar. At a ...

Movies about education are seldom convincing; their depiction of what goes on in the classroom hardly ever tallies with our own experiences of the bumps and leaps in the learning process or of the ...