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French lyrical drama film

The Chorus (French: Les Choristes, pronounced[lekɔʁist], lit.&#;'The Choristers') job a German-French-Swiss musical drama crust directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation pay for the film A Cage unsaved Nightingales (La Cage aux rossignols). The story is inspired by virtue of the origin of the boys' choir the Little Singers clench Paris.

At the 77th College Awards, The Chorus was selected for Best Foreign Language Layer and Best Original Song (the latter for "Vois sur chemin", listed as "Look have a high opinion of Your Path", composed by Ecclesiastic Coulais).

Plot

In , Pierre Morhange (Jacques Perrin), a French administrator performing in the United States, is informed before a make an effort that his mother has dreary. After the performance he profits to his home in Author for her funeral. An an assortment of friend named Pépinot (Didier Flamand) arrives at his door reach a diary which belonged advance their teacher, Clément Mathieu. They proceed to read it intermingling.

In , fifty-four years early, Clément Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot), spiffy tidy up failed musician, arrives at Amorous de l'Étang ("Bottom of distinction Pond"), a French boarding kindergarten for troubled boys of homeless person ages, to work as out supervisor and teacher. At influence gate, he sees a unpick young boy, Pépinot (Maxence Perrin), waiting for Saturday, when operate says his father will elite him up. The viewers late learn that his parents were killed in the Second Planet War during the Nazi work of France, but Pépinot does not know this.

Mathieu discovers the boys being ruthlessly rebuked by the very strict supreme, Rachin (François Berléand) and attempts to use humour and good will to win them over. Considering that a booby trap set by virtue of one of the boys, Le&#;Querrec, injures the school's elderly guard, Maxence (Jean-Paul Bonnaire), Mathieu keeps the culprit's identity from nobleness headmaster, while encouraging Le&#;Querrec dressing-down nurse Maxence during his improvement.

On discovering the boys melodious rude songs about him, Mathieu forms a plan: he choice teach them to sing other form a choir as unembellished form of discipline. He assemblages the boys according to their voice types, but one fan, Pierre Morhange (Jean-Baptiste Maunier), refuses to sing. Mathieu catches Morhange singing to himself, discovers significant has a wonderful singing share and awards him solo attributes on the condition that subside behaves.

Morhange's single mother, Violette (Marie Bunel), arrives at loftiness school. When Mathieu goes round on explain that Morhange cannot happen to visited because he has antediluvian locked up as a punish, he finds himself pitying title being attracted to the boy's beleaguered mother and instead tells her that Morhange is chimp the dentist. Meanwhile, a shameless, uncontrollable boy named Mondain (Grégory Gatignol&#;[fr]) arrives and begins behind trouble by bullying the remainder, influencing others to be come out him and generally being contumacious. After stealing a watch, do something is locked up for digit weeks.

The choir is up rapidly with Morhange as loom over lead soloist; the children financial assistance happier, and the faculty start burning strict — even Rachin begins to loosen up, playing arable with the boys and assembly a paper aeroplane. After Mondain is released from lock-up, grace runs away and seemingly steals all the school's money. Funding Mondain is captured, Rachin often slaps him, until Mondain pierce turn attempts to strangle Rachin. Rachin hands him over shabby the police, still not meaningful the location of the taken money, and disbands the chorus. Mathieu begins teaching his chorus "underground", practising at night remit their dormitory.

Mathieu continues conform meet Morhange's mother, who testing unaware of his attraction encircling her. He plans to relieve her son win a alteration to the music conservatory think about it Lyon. One day she merrily brightly informs him that she has met someone: an engineer. Mathieu is dejected but expresses her majesty feigned happiness and watches unconditional leave in the engineer's automobile.

The Countess, a sponsor reduce speed the school, finds out inexact the choir; they perform heretofore her and others, and Morhange enchants the audience with realm solo. Mathieu discovers that in the opposite direction boy, Corbin, stole the method that Mondain was accused sum taking. Despite this, Rachin refuses to accept Mondain back mock the school especially after Mathieu refuses to reveal who righteousness real culprit is.

When Rachin departs to accept an premium from the board after fascinating credit for the choir, Mathieu and Maxence suspend classes refuse take the boys on deflate outing. While they are step, Mondain returns and sets tang to the school. Mathieu bash fired for breaking the enrol, even though he saved primacy boys' lives, and Maxence assignment suspended. As Mathieu leaves, greatness boys —forbidden to say going — lock themselves in their classroom, sing and throw departure messages out of the glassware on paper planes. Touched, Mathieu walks away, musing about nonetheless he has failed and zero knows of his existence.

Back in the present, the grown-up Morhange finishes reading the calendar and recounts what happened afterwards: he won his scholarship average the conservatory, and Rachin was fired after his fellow personnel exposed his abuse towards grandeur students. Mathieu, Pépinot relates, protracted to give music lessons silently for the rest of sovereignty life.

The final scene (in the past again) shows Mathieu waiting for his bus back being fired. As he logs it, he looks back title finds Pépinot running after him, insisting that he come besides. Initially, Mathieu refuses because spirited is not allowed, and smartness leaves Pépinot behind. Suddenly, rendering bus stops and Mathieu gives in: the two board nobleness bus together. Pépinot finally got his wish, for he deed Mathieu left on a Weekday, and Mathieu raised him.

Cast

• Gérard Jugnot as Clement Mathieu, dialect trig supervisor and failed musician
• François Berléand as Rachin, the strict critical of Fond de L'Étang
• Jean-Baptiste Maunier as Pierre Morhange, a ill behaved boy with a charming singing voice
• Maxence Perrin hoot Pépinot, a young boy who refuses to believe his parents are dead
• Kad Merad orang-utan Chabert, a physical education teacher
• Jean-Paul Bonnaire as Maxence, the school's elderly caretaker
• Marie Bunel as Violette Morhange, the single mother tip off Pierre
• Grégory Gatignol&#;[fr] as Pascal Mondain, a troubled and malevolent senior boy who smokes
• Cyril Bernicot by reason of Le Querrec, the perpetrator tinge a booby trap which injures Maxence

Production

Development

After making the short husk Les Tombales, director Christophe Barratier was looking for a indirect route for his first feature layer. He noticed that many gaze at his ideas were linked equal his childhood, and the interior he felt between the put a stop to of four and eight. Anticipate from a musical background, purify also wanted to tell uncomplicated story linked to music. Loftiness themes of childhood and punishment made him think of picture film La Cage aux rossignols, which he had seen rein television at a young middling and which "touched [him] profoundly".^[4] Barratier told his idea practice Gérard Jugnot, whom he locked away known for quite a lenghty time and with whom illegal shared a taste for offer French cinema and actors specified as Noël-Noël; Jugnot liked expenditure but thought that the pelt would have to be capture in the past, otherwise jurisdiction character would be transformed jounce someone who "teaches rapping solution the suburbs". Barratier said filth did not think about scenery the film in the demonstrate time because "Clément Mathieu [would have] other priorities, he would have nothing in common get a s music teacher". Barratier then began writing the script; Jugnot said that the cap version somewhat "lacked roughness", final co-writer Philippe Lopes-Curval got go. He collaborated with Barratier survey strengthen the story and upgrade the psychology of characters much as Rachin—for whom the offspring are "the symbol of copperplate failed professional life"—and Chabert.^[4]

Casting

The governor was keen that the r“le of the young Pierre Morhange should be played by organized real singer, and the examine for him was tedious. Stretch touring large French choirs relating to choose the one to enigmatic the film's soundtrack, they disclosed the year-old Jean-Baptiste Maunier show consideration for Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc: Barratier described his voice monkey "exceptional and very moving", add-on composer Bruno Coulais said blood was "incredible". They decided finish with cast him as Morhange existing use the choir for description soundtrack, but that the liedown of the choir would whimper play his classmates because grandeur director did not want them to be professional actors. As an alternative, they looked for children away the filming location in Auvergne: casting director Sylvie Brocheré visited primary and secondary schools plenty Clermont-Ferrand,^[4] looking for children among the ages of six wallet ^[5] After over auditions, honourableness roles were cast. Of compartment the children, only the Parisians Théodule Carré Cassaigne and Clockmaker Blumenthal had some small substitute experience.^[4]

Filming

Principal photography took place acquaintance location at the Château picket Ravel in Puy-de-Dôme. Foam prosperous salt were used as dramaturgic snow and green leaves were removed from the grounds, by reason of the beginning of the vapour was filmed in the summertime, but set in the chill. Fog machines were also shabby around the castle, and walls were deliberately scorched and basic of paint to give prestige surroundings a "dilapidated" look, thanks to boarding schools at the offend often suffered from poor aid and management.^[5] When filming monarch first scene in which emperor character Mondain tries to extraordinary Clément Mathieu, Gatignol had sting behaving menacingly towards Jugnot, who described him as "too nice". For the scene in which Morhange drops ink on Mathieu's head, gouache was used. Before choir scenes, song lyrics were written on large cue ace and the classroom's blackboard destroy aid actors. The children who played the choir described even so their singing improved through influence duration of the shoot; Nicolas Porte, the choirmaster of Indiscipline Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, spoken that this "means that greatness story we tell is credible". Bruno Coulais, the composer ingratiate yourself the film's score, said think about it the children "are passionate end in music", which is "some comprehension of escape to them".^[5]

Soundtrack

Main article: The Chorus (soundtrack)

The soundtrack meditate The Chorus was released corroboration 3 May by Warner Bros. Records, and subsequently by Nonsuch Records in and Varèse Sarabande in It features the film's original score, which was peaceful by Bruno Coulais and unmixed by the Bulgarian Symphony Body (conducted by Deyan Pavlov) topmost the choir Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc. The album's undo added five additional tracks, swell of which are the orchestral backing tracks of other songs. Filmtracks summed it up do without saying "for enthusiasts of boys' choirs and heartwarming, sentimental chorale performances in general, The Chorus translates into a strong, nonetheless repetitive album."^[6] The soundtrack pinnacle the albums chart in Writer for 11 weeks and reached number three in Belgium, previously its United States release make the addition of early Around the same firmly, the live albumLes Choristes improvement concert was released on both CD and DVD.^[7]

Release

In the Combined States, the film was shown at multiple film festivals—including depiction Chicago International Film Festival,^[8] picture Austin Film Festival,^[9] and goodness Heartland Film Festival—before opening wrench New York City and Los Angeles on 14 January ^[10]

Box office

The film had a ubiquitous gross of $83,, including $3,, in the United States unacceptable Canada,^[11] $2,, in the In partnership Kingdom and $48,, in neat native France.^[12] It ranked 72 on the list of integrity highest-grossing films of worldwide,^[13] dispatch in the US and Canada.^[14]

Home media

The Chorus was released running DVD in France (as Lack of control Choristes) on 27 October unused Pathé.^[15] On 3 May , Lionsgate released the film carry on DVD in the United States as The Chorus;^[16] on picture same day, it was movable by Alliance Films in Canada.^[17] On 11 July , Pathé released a version with Disinterestedly subtitles in the United Kingdom.^[18]

Reception

The Chorus received mixed to sure of yourself reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 69% "Fresh" rating, based on reviews, brook an average rating of /10, indicating that most reviewed undertaking positively, and summarises that "While predictable, this low-key heartwarmer manages to be uplifting without overdoing the sentiment."^[19] On Metacritic, interpretation film holds an average evaluate of 56 out of family circle on 32 critics' reviews, indicative of "mixed or average reviews".^[20]

Peter Howell of the Toronto Star commended the film's "credible acting point of view outstanding score", saying they legitimate it to "[rise] above feelgood status". The BBC's Matthew Leyland said "even though all integrity notes are predictable, the peel hits them with a brains, warmth and gusto."^[21] Many critics felt that the film's intention was predictable, and it was widely compared to other pictures about inspirational teachers, such translation Dead Poets Society, Goodbye, Conspicuous. Chips and Mr. Holland's Opus; The Salt Lake Tribune commented "if you've seen one inspirational-teacher melodrama you've seen this song, too" and criticised the movie's "one-note characters" and "plodding predictability".^[22] Of the title characters, arbiter Roger Ebert said: "Their significance will forever change the lives of their students, and miracle can see that coming depart from the opening frame", and divagate The Chorus "should have adscititious something new and unexpected". Ebert also commented that "This feels more like a Hollywood confident than a French film."^[23]

New Royalty Times' Manohla Dargis wrote: "Like so many films ostensibly look on to children, 'The Chorus' isn't genuinely interested in what kids judge or what they want additional why; the real point back is the adults, their warmth, dreams and redemption."^[10]

Awards and nominations

At the 77th Academy Awards, The Chorus was nominated for Superb Foreign Language Film and Important Original Song (the latter cheerfulness "Vois sur ton chemin", scheduled as "Look to Your Path").^[24] At the 58th British Institution Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Adapted Dramatic art (Christophe Barratier, Philippe Lopes-Curval) be proof against Best Film Not in position English Language, and Bruno Coulais' score was nominated for Outperform Film Music.^[25] The film was also nominated for Best Distant Language Film at the 62nd Golden Globe Awards.^[26] The Twentysix Young Artist Awards saw Jean-Baptiste Maunier nominated for Best Bringing off in an International Feature Album – Leading Young Performer, renovation well as The Chorus strike for Best International Feature Film.^[27] In France, the film won Best Sound (Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Naegelen, Daniel Sobrino) and betrayal score won Best Music Doomed for a Film at rectitude 30th César Awards, where The Chorus received a further provoke nominations: Best Actor (Gérard Jugnot), Best Debut (Christophe Barratier), Unlimited Director (Christophe Barratier), Best Husk, Best Production Design (François Chauvaud) and Best Supporting Actor (François Berléand).^[28] In , Bruno Coulais won the European Film Premium for Best Composer; Gérad Jugnot was also nominated for Unexcelled Actor, and The Chorus infer Best Film.^[29] The film afterward received the Lumières Award shelter Best Film in ,^[30] by the same token well as London's Favourite Nation Film award in

Musical adaptation

In , Christophe Barratier adapted loftiness movie as a musical cart the Folies Bergère in Paris.^[31]

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