A relentlessly heartwarming addition to the annals of One-Teacher-Can-Make-a-Difference pics, "Les Choristes" takes place during one semester at a boy's boarding school-cum-reformatory in small-town ...

Les Choristes: Drama. Directed by Christophe Barratier. Written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval. With Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Marie Bunel. (PG-13. 96 mins. At ...

In the beginning, there was the Voice. Classical guitarist-turned-filmmaker Christophe Barratier needed someone who could really sing. He was about to make a movie, "Les Choristes," about a group of ...

Music soothes the little savages running wild through a school for troubled boys in "The Chorus" ("Les Choristes"), the handsome and popular French film that picked up an Academy Award nomination for ...

IT SHOULD be clear from the outset that "The Chorus," also known as "Les Choristes," is larded over with le fromage, which is to say, French cheese. But as these dairy products go, Christophe ...

Starring Gérard Jugnot. In French with English subtitles. Unrated. Les Choristes, in other words, is more of a commercial product than an objet d'art. On the other hand, it is a very good commercial ...

One such school is L’Fond de L’Etang, which literally means “Rock Bottom,” an old French castle that looks very much like a prison. When mild-mannered Clement Mathieu (popular French actor Gerard ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Not only that, even if the collar-loosening turns out to be only temporary, it's enough to persuade the arch-authoritarian principal of ...

In Les Choristes (The Chorus), the time is 1949, the kids are French, the Dickensian boarding school for troubled boys is in a green countryside, the transformative new teacher is a mild-mannered beta ...

A huge hit in its native France, period drama The Chorus sticks to a familiar songsheet: the one where a kindly teacher (slaphead musician Gerard Jugnot) slowly but very surely wins over his urchin ...