Monsieur Lazhar
Monsieur Lazhar is a 2011 Canadian Frenchlanguage drama film directed by Philippe Falardeau. The screenplay was developed from Bashir Lazhar, a onecharacter play by velyne de la Chenelire. The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards. The film was released theatrically in the United States onApril 2012 by distributor Music Box Films.
Bashir eventually comes to be loved and respected by the students he is teaching, but the teachers death still haunts the students. During a school dance, a student named Simon is found to have a photo of his former teacher. It is revealed that he tried to get her into trouble after she tried to help him through his family struggles. Bashir eventually gets the students to open up about the death, especially Simon, who is blamed and blames himself for causing the teachers suicide. Eventually, some parents discover that Bashir has no teaching qualification previously, he had run a restaurant. He is then fired from the school. He asks the principal to be able to teach one more day, convincing her by noting that the old teacher never got to say goodbye to her students. On his last day, Bashir has his students correct a fable he wrote which is a metaphor of his tragic past life in Algeria and the loss of his family in a fire. Before he leaves, one of his students, Alice whom he professed to be his favourite to her mother gives him a tearful hug goodbye.There weredays of shooting, about an average time for a film to be shot in Quebec. The principal filming occurred in the summer so the production could use the school and so the educations of the child actors were not disrupted. Four of the shooting days occurred in the winter. ........
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