Begaudeau's In Competition hat trick

May 21, 2008 Begaudeau pulled off an unprecedented hat trick in Laurent Cantet's In Competition title "The Class" (Entre Les Murs). The film -- based on Begaudeau's novel of the same name -- is not only co-written by the the former teacher, he also plays the film's lead role. Set during the course of the full school year in a high school in a rough Parisian neighborhood, the drama features Begaudeau as a teacher who pits his classroom ethics against a group of teenagers.

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