Slope of fame

Laurent Cantet

Director, France

Laurent Cantet made his first feature film, Human Resources, in 1999 and received two Césars: Best First Feature and Best Emerging Talent for Jalil Lespert. In 2001, he directed Time Out, which won him an award in Venice. He then adapted François Bégaudeau's novel Entre les murs (The Class) and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. In 2013, he directed the feminist Foxfire, based on Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates. In 2014, he directed Return to Ithaca, which recounts the reunion of five friends. In 2017, he presented his new film, The Workshop, in Cannes, in which Marina Foïs slips into the skin of a renowned novelist supervising young people via a writing workshop. Arthur Rambo, his last film, will be released in 2022.

Laurent was guest of honour at the festival in 2021.

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