French filmmaker Laurent Cantetwinner of Palme d’Or of 2008 Cannes Film Festival with the film “Between the School Walls“, died this Thursday (25) at the age of 63, his agent informed the press.
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Filmmaker with nine feature films, Cantet was currently working on a new project, “L’apprenti”, scheduled for release in 2025.
“He died this morning in Paris due to illness,” said Isabelle de la Patellière, the filmmaker’s agent.
In 2012, the filmmaker participated in a collective work, “7 Days in Havana”, together with six other directors, including Benicio del Toro. The production captured daily life in the Cuban capital over seven episodes.
Other well-known films by Laurent Cantet are “Human Resources” (1999), about labor relations in a French company, and “Towards the South”, set in Haiti and filmed in 2005 with Charlotte Rampling and Karen Young.
The Cannes Film Festival, whose 77th edition will begin on May 14, described the filmmaker as a “fierce humanist, who sought light despite social violence, who found hope despite the harshness of reality.”
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