I don't know what the play is like, but certainly the classroom is like a stage and each small event is magnified, and these students are at the ripe age for students, when they are the most receptive for field trips, museum visits, and so forth. And everything emotional is magnified by the suicide of their teacher whom M. Lazhar replaces. I'll leave the discussion of the film to you since I could not write about it. My feelings were too mixed. It's certainly an excellent film rich in implications. It left me very depressed and sad though. Probably good to write about but then the SFIFF began and I didn't really have time to go back to M. Lazhar when I was working to keep up my festival coverage.