French filmmaker Laurent Cantet, who won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2008 for his school-set film Entre Les Murs (The Class), died on Thursday aged 63. “He died this morning in Paris of an illness,” his agent Isabelle de la Patelliere told AFP. The Class is based on the novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau and is a semi-autobiographical account of his experience as a teacher in Paris’ diverse 20th arrondissement of Paris. Bégaudeau also starred in the film. It is both moving and at times wonderfully humorous portrait of precious idealism in the classroom – and doubly impressive conside…