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Les choristes (2004)


The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively effect the students' lives through music.

The Chorus (2004 film)

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The Chorus
Directed by Christophe Barratier
Produced by Arthur Cohn
Jacques Perrin
Gérard Jugnot
Written by Christophe Barratier
Philippe Lopes-Curval
Starring Gérard Jugnot
François Berléand
Kad Merad
Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Music by Bruno Coulais
Cinematography Jean-Jacques Bouhon
Dominique Gentil
Carlo Varini
Editing by Yves Deschamps
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release date(s) 17 March 2004
Running time 96 minutes
Country France
Language French
Budget €5.5 million
Gross revenue 71,087,325 €

The Chorus (French: Les choristes) is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales (La Cage aux Rossignols), which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.

Widely successful orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange (Jacques Perrin) returns to France when his mother dies. He reminiscences about his childhood inspirations through the pages of a diary kept by his old music teacher Clément Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot). In 1949, a young Pierre (Jean-Baptiste Maunier) is the badly behaved son of single mother Violette (Marie Bunel). He attends a boarding school, Fond de L'Etang, for "difficult" boys presided over by strict headmaster Mr Rachin (François Berléand). New teacher Mathieu brightens up the place and assembles a choir, leading to the discovery of Pierre's musical talents.

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50 years after the main story takes place, an old friend called Pépinot arrives at Morhange's door with a diary. It is the diary of their teacher, Mathieu, and they read it together.

In France in 1949, Clément Mathieu, who in his own words has failed at everything else, arrives at the gates of Fond de l'Etang (Bottom of the Pond), a boarding school for "difficult" boys. At the gate he sees a young child, Pépinot, who is waiting for Saturday, which is when his father is supposed to come for him. Pépinot has been unable to absorb the fact that his parents were killed years previously in the Second World War.

In his first week at the school, Mathieu discovers the boys being ruthlessly punished by the headmaster Rachin. Mathieu attempts to use humour and kindness to win them over. When a booby trap set by one of the boys injures the school's elderly caretaker, Mathieu keeps the boy's identity from the headmaster, while encouraging the boy to nurse the caretaker during his recovery.

On discovering the boys singing rude songs about him behind his back one night, Mathieu, who is a musician and composer, forms a plan - he will teach them to sing, and form a choir. As he groups the boys into soprano, alto etc., he discovers that one of the naughtiest boys, Morhange, has a wonderful singing voice and awards him solo parts on the condition that he behave.

One day, Morhange's mother Violette arrives at the school. When Mathieu goes down to explain that Morhange cannot be visited because he has been locked up as a punishment after writing rude notes about the headmaster, he finds himself sorry for, and attracted to, the boy's beleaguered mother, and instead tells her that Morhange is at the dentist.

The choir rapidly improves, but its success arouses the jealousy of Rachin, who disbands the group. They go "underground", practicing at night.

Meanwhile, a cruel "perverted" boy named Mondain has arrived at the school, and begins causing trouble - bullying and extorting money from the other boys, smoking in class, and generally rebelling. After being locked up for 2 weeks as punishment, he runs away from the school one day. At the same time, all of the school's money disappears. The headmaster first beats Mondain repeatedly and then hands him over to the police.

It later transpires that it was another boy who stole the money, but Rachin refuses to accept Mondain back at the school. Mathieu is upset at this injustice—besides, Mondain had been his only baritone.

Mathieu continues to meet Morhange's mother, to share his plans to help her son win a scholarship to the music conservatory. His attraction to the mother is obvious to us, but not to her. One day she blithely informs him that he has brought her good luck, as she has met an engineer whom she hopes to marry.

Rachin discovers that the school's main sponsor, the Countess, has found out about the choir and claims it as his own idea. The choir performs to the Countess and others, with Morhange enchanting the audience with his solo.

As Rachin goes to accept an award from the board for "rescuing" the boys and reforming them, Mathieu and the school's caretaker, rebel by taking the boys into the woods to enjoy the sunshine. While they are out, Mondain sets fire to the roof.

Mathieu is fired for breaking the rules, even though he saved the boys' lives. As he leaves, the boys, who are forbidden to say goodbye, throw messages to him on paper planes out of the window. Touched, he waves farewell.

As he boards the bus he looks back and finds Pépinot running after him, insisting that he come too. Initially Mathieu refuses, saying that this is not allowed. But he gives in and they board the bus together, and we hear Mathieu narrating, saying that Pépinot had been right, for Mathieu had been fired on a Saturday.

Morhange won his scholarship to the conservatory, and the headmaster, Rachin, was sacked for his brutal discipline. Mathieu, Pépinot relates, continued to give music lessons quietly for the rest of his life.

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The film was shot on location at Château de Ravel in Puy-de-Dôme.

The film was shown at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, the Heartland Film Festival, the Milwaukee International Film Festival, and the Scottsdale Film Festival in the U.S. before opening in LA (Los Angeles) in time to qualify for the 77th Academy Awards.

The songs in the film were performed by Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc.

Les Choristes had a worldwide gross of $82,737,984 including $3,629,758 in the U.S.[1]

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Academy Awards, USA Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s) 2005 Nominated Oscar Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song Bruno Coulais (composer) Christophe Barratier (lyricist) For the song "Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)".

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year France.

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2/20(週日)中午12點半 / 晚間11點半 經典電影院【放牛班的春天】

《放牛班的春天》Les Choristes

■ 導演 / 編劇: 克里斯巴哈蒂
■ 演員:法藍柯波蘭德、尚巴堤莫里耶


☆ 音樂改變了他們的生命,愛打開了所有希望

一群被大人放棄的野男孩,有來自低收入家庭的、有過度頑劣被趕出來、還有雙親戰死的孤兒。而輔育院院長崇尚「鐵的紀律」,凡調皮搗蛋者,皆關禁閉,校園儼成為地獄。

菜鳥老師雖然常被整得團團轉,但仍背著院長,硬是要將學生組一個合唱團。馬修用音樂啟發孩子的潛能,還教導生命的真諦。夏天過了,野男孩個個成為發光的小天使,並擁有一生受用不盡的珍貴寶藏。

舞台は戦後間もない1949年頃。孤児や問題児を集めた寄宿舎、その名も「Fond De L'Étang(池の底)」。ある日一人の音楽教師マチューが舎監としてやってくる。マチューは悪戯が酷く反抗的な生徒達と、厳しい規律とお仕置きを持っ て生徒に対するラシャン校長や同僚の体育教師シャベールにとまどう日々が続くが、自分の経験を生かし音楽を教えることを思いつき、生徒達に合唱を教え始め る。そんなときマチューは、問題児として見られているモランジュが、奇跡のような「天使の歌声」を持っていることに気が付くのだった。

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