Description

The Chorus 2004
Les choristes (original title)
1h 37m | Comedy, Drama, Music | 17 March 2004 (France)
Storyline:The new teacher at a severely administered boys’ boarding school works to positively affect the students’ lives through music.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for some language/sexual references and violenceUser review:Boys as a group are perhaps the least understood human beings among us. Les Choristes invites our understanding of their sensibility, sensitivity, and the ease with which they are treated badly — in fact, have always been treated badly by institutions, educators and parents. The importance of fathers in their lives and their great need for a surrogate if the natural fathers are missing are beautifully explored in this film. The screenplay and its realization on screen are very effective in showing how the difficult combination of giving boys strong direction and tenderness and finding a way to their hearts can be accomplished. This film helps us understand how the same human creature can be hard and sullen one moment and sweetly spiritual the next, inaccessible one minute and needy the next. It is also an inspiring film for young men preparing to be teachers.
Director: Christophe Barratier
Writers: Georges Chaperot (1945 story “La Cage aux rossignols”), René Wheeler (1945 story “La Cage aux rossignols”), Noël-Noël(1945 screenplay “La Cage aux rossignols”)
Stars: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Countries of origin: France, Switzerland, Germany
Language: French
Also known as: Los coristas
Filming locations: Château de Ravel, Puy-de-Dôme, France
IMDB Profile tt0372824