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
00:06:01 - L. - All right
00:08:47 Where's Moscow?
00:11:50 Let lssa speak
00:14:36 Without starting with Adam and Eve...
00:18:04 things.
00:22:30 - Have you done this job before? - Yes, I've got experience.
00:25:21 Is that OK for you?
00:27:51 was paying 450 Euros to rent a room.
00:30:57 No.
00:33:27 - No. - Right
00:37:04 Yes, sure, but if you don't want to it's not a problem, Sheida.
00:44:18 He said to me: I'm really going to miss you
00:47:54 There are so many people
00:52:02 and a scent of bread to the olives
00:54:44 I keep walking.
00:57:37 Do you know what "to smile" means?
00:59:52 not because they're dead
01:02:56 OK.
01:05:27 you've got a good teacher.
01:06:56 If this law removes your right to life, what do you do?
01:09:16 Duties
01:12:40 - Like that? - Yes.
01:19:47 At a certain point, see something coming towards me