Conjunction Dysfunction

摘要

Soulemayne has a stunning smile. He also has an explosive temper and a tattoo he claims is a passage from the Qur'an that translates as, if your wordsARE LESS IMPORTANT THAN SILENCE,KEEP QUIET. Questions about the importance of words drive "The Class," an exhausting, exuberant film about one teacher's attempts to communicate with a class of French high-school students. The film's premise may sound familiar. "The Class," which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and is an Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film, is based on a memoir by Francois Begaudeau, who taught in a high school where many of the students were the children of immigrants and came from low-income families.