PARS.- He director of cine french Laurent singsPalme d’Or in 2008 with Class and author of films shot in Cuba and Haiti, died today -April 25- at the age of 63, his agent informed AFP.
“He died this morning in Paris due to an illness,” said Isabelle de la Patellire.
Author of nine feature films, Cantet was currently working on a new project, The apprenticewhich was scheduled to premiere in 2025.
In 2012 I participated in a collective work, Seven days in Havana, along with six other directors, including Benicio del Toro. The film captured daily life in the Cuban capital through seven episodes.
Director’s career
Two years later he returned to Havana to film Return to Ithacaan ensemble film about the memories of five friends after the return of one of them from exile, with Isabel Santos and Jorge Perugorra as part of the cast.
Class It was set in a Parisian school and narrated, with the air of a documentary, the daily life of a French teacher, faced with a class of rebellious teenagers in a troubled neighborhood.
The other known films of Laurent Cantet son Human Resources (1999), on labor relations within a French company, and To the southset in Haiti and filmed in 2005 with Charlotte Rampling and Karen Young.
The Cannes Film Festival, which will begin its 77th edition on May 14, greeted in Cantet a fierce humanist, who sought light despite social violence, who found hope despite the harshness of reality.
“He was a director and screenwriter whose coherent and humanistic work draws a sensitive cinema, on the surface and on the surface of society,” the festival said in a statement.
FUENTE: AFP
