Is entre les murs a true story

Directed by France’s Laurent Cantet, “Entre les murs” (meaning “between walls”) has the combustive energy and spirited friskiness of an inspired documentary, but in fact it’s a work of fiction.

The title — both in French and in its English translation — reflects the perspective adopted in the film: everything happens “between the walls” (the literal translation of “entre les murs”) of the school and the classroom, and we follow the life of teachers and students from the beginning to the end of a school year.

If Entre les murs has a theme, it is the vexatious difficulty of protecting adolescents who are quite sure (quite mistakenly) that they don’t want to be protected. Teenagers are unfortunate children who wake up to find themselves encased in strong, impulsive bodies with a will of their own.

Entre les Murs (English: Between the walls) is a work of contemporary fiction by French writer François Bégaudeau. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau’s experiences as a literature teacher in an inner city middle school in Paris.