Monsieur Lazhar opens with a Michael Haneke-like tableau: a wide shot of a Montreal schoolyard with children playing at recess. Everything seems normal, but something is terribly amiss. After an ...

Fellag, an Algerian comedian, plays the title character in the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar, who steps in to teach a class of middle school students after tragedy has struck their classroom.

FILM REVIEW: Canada's foreign-language submission is a searing classroom drama about grief that should be an Oscar front-runner. By Stephen Farber NIne-year-old Emilien Neron turns in a powerful ...

MUSIC BOX FILMS Music Box Films A Montreal middle school tries to cope after a teacher commits suicide in "Monsieur Lazhar," starring Mohamed Fellag as Bachir Lazhar. Rather miraculously, a gentle, ...

We want our stories about schoolteachers to inspire us, just as we crave inspiring teachers. In “Monsieur Lazhar,” a foreign-language Oscar nominee from last year, an Algerian immigrant living in ...

takes you by surprise -- and that goes for both the movie and the man. After a ghastly tragedy at a Montreal school, an elegant, soft-spoken and mysterious immigrant named Lazhar ( Mohamed Fellag ) ...

From French-Canadian writer-director Philippe Falardeau, a filmmaker whose work is seldom seen outside of the Toronto International Film Festival, comes the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar, a tender, ...

Films about teachers and students are commonly inspirational melodramas about overcoming adversity inside and outside the classroom. The teacher is usually a newcomer to the school and initially ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar subtly examines the anguish of relocation in its portrait of an Algerian school teacher whose move to Canada is fraught at every turn, writes Stephen Farber. When ...

The French-Canadian “Monsieur Lazhar” is largely set in a grade-school classroom, which is a very pleasant place to be. One of the biggest joys of the drama is that this class is full of compelling ...

An Algerian immigrant faces a steep learning curve when he's hired as a substitute teacher in Montreal in "Monsieur Lazhar," the most polished and mainstream effort yet from Quebec scribe-helmer ...