Les Choristes

Les Choristes歌聲伴我心 (2004)
Director:
Christophe Barratier
Main Actors:
Gérard Jugnot / François Berléand / Jean-Baptiste Maunier / Marie Bunel
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It is a story which could happen at any time, you might find some deja vu within it as we might comeacross teachers like clement who has 'heart' more or less in our growing age. It might be someone who taught you music, math equation and dancing. The image of a 'helpful' teacher is the biggest selling point of the film.
I can't help comparing it with Wes Craven's Music of the Heart, which is also focusing on how naughty,helpess kids being turned into talented children with hopes for the future. What mark the difference between the two films is that Clement was still nobody after his hard work on training the students singing on stage while Roberta became known to others and established a funding for further training the talented kids.
There are performance of the choir in both films, but the former film paif little attention to the audience reponse while the latter one highlighting the final stage performers which is what the audience expected.
In Les Choristes, the director does not portray a perfect picture in which every naughty kids can be changed, there are still kids who are hopeless and not easy to change. In Les Choristes, Clement left the school without any students running out of the classroom and hugging, farewelling He walked away lonely, leaving the audience a sense of longing to know more about his whereabout though we knew from Pepinot(who was adopted by Clement when he left the school) that he taught music for his whole life.
By the way, Morhange's little voice is so sweet that you might find yourself being occupied with it after the film.
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