For Philippe Falardeau, the schoolyard is “a microcosm of society where everything happens.” The Canadian-born director has chosen this familiar setting for his most recent film, Monsieur Lazhar, an ...

Director Philippe Falardeau’s stealth visit to Toronto this past weekend to attend two warmly received afternoon screenings of his world-premiering “Lovely Day,” an acquisition title, left little time ...

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, a tender, ...

In an early scene in Philippe Falardeau’s “Monsieur Lazhar,” a young child discovers that his teacher has committed suicide, hanging herself from the rafters of their classroom. Rather than become the ...

Jeffrey Brown talks to Philippe Falardeau, director of "Monsieur Lazhar." After the suicide of a teacher in a Montreal middle-school, a class of grieving students is thrown together with an Algerian ...

After the suicide of a teacher in a Montreal middle-school, a class of shocked and grieving students is thrown together with a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, with tragic secrets of his own, who ...

At this year’s Oscars, Philippe Falardeau spotted his idol Steven Spielberg standing alone, firing off a text message. Falardeau panicked. How, the French-Canadian director fretted, could he break the ...

Seizing the day has never involved so much heartache. Liev Schreiber's performance as real-life boxer Chuck Wepner is the latest in boxing biopics. The Good Lie, starring Reese Witherspoon and Corey ...

With its intensely concentrated industry buzz and high profile bidding wars, Sundance is one of the few places where filmmakers’ careers can be transformed overnight. But writer/director Philippe ...

Award-winning filmmaker Philippe Falardeau was recently included on Variety’s 2012 list of 10 Directors to Watch. Known for La Moitié Gauche du Frigo (The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge), Congorama, and ...