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25/02/2009

Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. He meets director Laurent Cantet, whose film about an inner city French school won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival last year.

Presented by Mark Lawson.

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Professor John Deathridge reviews director Tim Albery's new interpretation of Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman.

The French film The Class (Entre Les Murs) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and was shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars. The film's director, Laurent Cantet, explains why he made his fictional film in a fly-on-the-wall documentary style.

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