"The Class" to open NY Film Fest
Laurent Cantet's Palm d'Or winner "The Class" will open the 46th New York Film Festival, running Sept. 26 to Oct. 12. Film follows a French schoolteacher working in a multicultural neighborhood of Paris. Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film at Cannes.
Fest also announced a retrospective of Nagisa Oshima ("In the Realm of the Senses," "Night and Fog in Japan") and a presentation of Guy Debord's "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" which has a few different English titles, including "We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire."
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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