Les Choristes
The Chorus.

For anyone who wants an educated film, something that you’ll have to watch and pay attention too, something with a strong storyline and great characters then you could do a lot worse than Christophe Barratier’s The Chorus, a French film set in the late 1940′s depicting life of children in a bording school who have been classed as failures and wasters by the head-teacher, a school fraut with trouble and bother. Clement Mathieu comes into the school with the role of supervisor, replacing the old supervisor after an incident involving a pair of scissors. Not knowing what he is entering into, Mathieu uses his fair means and befriends the students, eventually forming a choir which helps tame the students.

A really beautiful story which is brilliantly acted by a refreshing change of actors you almost certainly will not know or recognize. Gerard Jugnot is compelling in his role as Mathieu, a role which should have brought him more fame, as the Daily Mail described it, it really is “An exceptional film”.

Well deserving of its 2 Oscar Nominations, the only crime was the lack of a nomination for Gerard Jugnot.

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IMDb Rating: 7.8/10