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After their teacher’s suicide, a grieving class gets an unlikely replacement in Algerian immigrant Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag). Philippe Falardeau’s intricate drama (a Best Foreign Language Film nominee) inverts ‘inspirational teacher’ clichés; Lazhar’s as troubled as his pupils but touchy-feely sentiment is actively thwarted by a ban on teacher/student contact. …

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