My Class
2013 · 92 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 293 VOTES · DIR. Daniele Gaglianone
Overview
The ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, truth and artifice, and between documentary and drama, Gaglianone has created a film within a film. You see the apparent artifice of Gaglianone’s crew using professionals, including the noted film actor Valerio Mastandrea as the teacher, interlinked with ‘real’ immigrant protagonists, studying the language to improve their chances of employment and of gaining a permanent residence permit. Thus in the course of the lessons there is simultaneously the painful and upsetting relation of the students’ personal stories but also humour, as they interact and share their humanity, bridging cultural differences, united in their striving to make a better life for themselves. (Source: LFF programme)
Dialogue Timeline — 1,453 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:09 MY CLASS
00:06:06 North Iran
00:08:53 Capital of Russia.
00:12:11 Thank you. "Perche", what's the problem with "perche"?
00:15:17 Together?
00:19:59 You're always early, it's still 10 minutes to go
00:23:11 I'll think about it and maybe call you back
00:25:57 No.
00:28:42 Let's take a photo, I'm here
00:31:34 Here in Italy
00:35:02 I went to do military service.
00:40:20 It's, no...ah, yes
00:46:19 through the desert...
00:49:49 Right...
00:53:23 "Let's wait for summer together"
00:56:08 And he sees people from a distance it's like he wasn't there
00:58:49 but asks you a question.
01:01:37 I've got a problem with my resident's permit
01:04:50 I don't want to leave.
01:06:26 He has to do something
01:08:15 is fucking useless.
01:11:19 My Fights
01:16:10 - All right? - Who's Shady?
01:23:39 - Come with us, come on - Why?