Philippe Falardeau
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The film's honeyed artistry may not sear the imagination like the phantasmagoria of Elem Klimov's Come and See , yet Falardeau's invitation to witness the horrors that have afflicted the Sudanese since the war ripped apart their homeland isn't beholden to bogus uplift.
Written and directed with economy and insight by Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar isn't one of those inspirational teacher melodramas (see Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets Society), but rather a sad, reflective study of the possibilities, and the impossibilities, inherent in the teacher-student relationship.
This isn’t some To Sir With Love or Dead Poets Society, a paean to the nobility of the teacher as underpaid hero.