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High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films | Peter Bradshaw

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 17:27

In Human Resources, Time Out and The Class, the Palme d’Or-winning film-maker – who has died aged 63 – addressed French and European society at all levels

Laurent Cantet was a classic product of the French cinema industry: a deeply intelligent, high-minded progressive film-maker of the same generation as Robin Campillo and Dominik Moll whose supremely literate, emotionally committed, stylish and well-acted movies aspired to address French and European society at all levels.

Cantet made films that you could imagine being discussed around a gregarious dinner table of fashionable Parisians, with glasses being avidly drained and refilled all round – in fact, you could imagine Cantet himself talking about his work at just this kind of gathering.

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Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 17:25

Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projects

Laurent Cantet , the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled some of the most complex issues of modern French society, including meritocracy, the education system, diversity and class struggle, has died aged 63 after an illness.

Cantet was best known outside France for his film Entre les Murs (The Class), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2008. It depicted life inside the classroom of a secondary school in Paris’s diverse 20 ^th arrondissement and the relationship between students – compellingly improvised by non-professional teenagers – and their at times exasperated teacher.

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La liquidation judiciaire de la SFAM, premier acte de la chute de la maison mère d’Hubside Store ?

news.movim.eu / Numerama · 12:34

La SFAM, filiale d'Indexia, est placée en liquidation judiciaire. La chute de cette structure est susceptible d'avoir des répercussions sur le reste du groupe, accusé depuis des années d'avoir des pratiques commerciales illicites.

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French national library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 11:56

Chemical thought to be in emerald green covers of four 19th-century books identified by Poison Book Project

France’s national library has removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald green covers are believed to be laced with arsenic.

The library said on Thursday that handling the books, which were printed in Britain, would probably cause only minor harm, but it was taking them away for further analysis.

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Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 11:26

Suspects alleged to have posed as academics to access books and replace them with copies, says Europol

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Police have arrested nine Georgians suspected of running a sophisticated criminal operation stealing valuable antique books – including an original Alexander Pushkin manuscript – from national libraries across Europe.

Shelves of 19th-century Russian-language literature had been ransacked over two years across several countries and replaced by fakes, Europol, the EU police agency revealed on Thursday.

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Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse in Paris

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 08:37

Blades of famous cabaret venue fall from roof overnight

The blades of the Moulin Rouge windmill, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, have collapsed, firefighters have said, just months before the French capital hosts the Olympics.

There was no risk of further collapse, Paris firefighters said after the incident overnight.

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Seine-Saint-Denis: la bataille autour des moyens alloués à l’éducation se poursuit au tribunal

news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Yesterday - 18:42

Les douze maires de Seine-Saint-Denis convoqués au tribunal administratif mercredi à Montreuil y ont défendu leurs arrêtés municipaux, mettant en demeure l’État de débloquer un plan d’urgence pour l’éducation. Pour la préfecture, il n’y a pas de «manque de moyens» dans le 93.

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Une autre conférence de Rima Hassan a été annulée

news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Yesterday - 17:31

La candidate LFI aux élections européennes devait donner une conférence à Paris Dauphine-PSL le 6 mai. L’université ne l’a pas autorisée, invoquant un «risque de trouble à l’ordre public».

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Derrière le guet-apens meurtrier de Grande-Synthe, l’inertie des autorités face au site Coco

news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Yesterday - 17:25

L’agression de Philippe Coopman pose de nouveau la question du contrôle du site de rencontre Coco, au cœur de plusieurs meurtres, notamment homophobes, ces dernières années. Un sujet pointé du doigt par des associations depuis plus d’un an et toujours ignoré par le gouvernement.