The film fails to effectively seize on how its main character’s life and work experiences have affected her as a person and artist.
Like its protagonist, Philippe Falardeau’s film gets lost in a haze of incidental cacophony.
This is a Hollywood-delivered chronicle of the immigrant experience that earns its justification through good will and tact.
Monsieur Lazhar is the rare film that respects the complexities and contradictions of grief.
Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar is a film about healing, the gradual thaw that develops in the wake of a tragedy.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who truly understands how the Oscars work that the still above isn’t from Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation.