He has a wonderfully poised performance from his star and a pair of strong turns from child actors Sophie Nélisse “Monsieur Lazhar,” which was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign language ...

Teacher movies tend to be more alike than unalike, but Monsieur Lazhar makes the familiar unusually strange. The note on which it opens is shocking, tragic: A Montreal middle school student ...

By Stephen Farber NIne-year-old Emilien Neron turns in a powerful performance. Lazhar opens with a quietly shocking image. A young boy is bringing a supply of milk to his elementary school ...

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.

It's easy to imagine Monsieur Lazhar becoming pat and sentimental in the wrong hands — full of teaching moments about immigration and grief and building bridges. But thankfully, the filmmakers ...

Monsieur Lazhar is a film that takes place in Québec, Canada. Photo courtesy of quebeccite/Instagram. Welcome back to another issue of Your Movie Mage, where I discuss underrated movies across genres.

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 ...

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It's now opening in theaters... In 'Monsieur Lazhar,' Grief Lingers In The Classroom Teacher movies tend to be more alike than unalike, but Monsieur Lazhar makes the familiar unusually strange.

Director Philippe Falardeau’s new film, Monsieur Lazhar, presents various lives with seemingly few similarities forced to deal with tragedy in ways that are remarkably and movingly similar.

Monsieur Lazhar suffers at times from handling too many sadnesses at once. But the movie’s tonic lack of sentimentality binds the various griefs together into something moving. B+ ...

Then one afternoon, a soft-spoken 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, Bachir Lazhar, appears and applies for the position. Monsieur Lazhar is polite and direct, with a warm smile and beautiful but ...