Nel 1948, Clement Mathieu, diventa il professore di musica in un collegio per la riabilitazione per minori. Ciò che scopre lo sconcerta: la situazione è repressiva. Attraverso il potere del ... Leggi tuttoNel 1948, Clement Mathieu, diventa il professore di musica in un collegio per la riabilitazione per minori. Ciò che scopre lo sconcerta: la situazione è repressiva. Attraverso il potere del canto, Clement cerca di trasformare gli studenti.Nel 1948, Clement Mathieu, diventa il professore di musica in un collegio per la riabilitazione per minori. Ciò che scopre lo sconcerta: la situazione è repressiva. Attraverso il potere del canto, Clement cerca di trasformare gli studenti.
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- Candidato a 2 Oscar
- 12 vittorie e 24 candidature totali
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In a way, we have seen similar situations where a good teacher is the catalyst for turning around a group of unruly students into good and productive young men and women. Mathieu Clement, is such a man. His kindness toward the children is returned to him by the students, as they respond to the way he teaches music to motivate and interest them. M. Clement has a keen sense of how to deal with the students; instead of the hard line approach the principal, Rachin, insists in dealing with them, he has other ways to make them change.
The music created by the film director, M. Barratier, and Bruno Coulais, gives the film the right tone. We also hear a song by Rameau, "La Nuit", which is sung with such sweetness that it disarms us and get us into the right mood for enjoying "The Choir" even more.
The film owes a great deal to Gerard Jugnot, who plays the kind teacher who sees possibilities among all these kids. His take on Mathiew Clement is the right one, because the children see in him someone that is the opposite of the other teachers and the mean principal. As the director of the school, Francois Berleand does a good job in portraying this egotistical man who can't see what his own cruelty is doing to the young people in his charge.
The children are as sweet as one expects them to be. Especially Jean Baptiste Maunier, who plays the young Pierre Morhange. Also an angelic Maxence Perrin enchants the viewer as the young orphan Pepinot. Marie Bunel plays Pierre's mother well.
This film is music to the ears of viewers, young and old.
Taking France by storm this summer, Les choristes purportedly led to a surge in applications to join choirs all over the country. The magic is unquestionably in the music, but I'll come to that later.
The success of Les choristes as a film (with or without the divine music) lies in its not trying to be anything more than what it is, a simple tale that opens up to you instead of manipulating you. You'll find neither heart-breaking poignancy nor rousing heroism. Within the short duration of a school term or two he spent with the somewhat notorious boarding school, teacher and musician Clement Mathieu had his modest ambition fulfilled, of having a choir sing the music he wrote, then moved along to a continuously modest life of teaching and music. Talented protégé Pierre Morhange did achieve fame and success, but we have essentially been spared laboured scenes of Titanic struggles or exuberant jubilation. To ensure that I'm not misleading towards the other extreme, let me hasten to add that Les choristes does touch our hearts. It does this gently, sensibly.
But in the end, it's the music. Purely the celestial beauty of the music alone will brings tears to the appreciative audiences' eyes. The story is touching. The character are likable. But the ultimate magic is the choir and boy soprano Jean-Baptiste Maunier chosen from two thousand auditions. Such a magical choice.
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- QuizActor, co-producer Gérard Jugnot mortgaged his Paris apartment to help finance the film. The bet paid off, and he ended up making over 5 million euros for 'Les Choristes' as actor and co-producer. He earned the title of the highest-paid French actor in 2004, overtaking Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu.
- BlooperDuring the auditions, Mathieu sends pupils to the right or to the left showing the direction by his hand. When directing Ricoeur, who sings "I've got tobacco in my pouch", to the left (at 33:06 to 33:07) he first moves his hand to his right, which some cite as an error while others cite it as a flourish, but then sweeps or hooks his hand left.
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Pierre Morhange adulte: Pepinot was right all along. Clement Mathieu was fired on a Saturday.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Interdit aux plus de 13 ans (2004)
- Colonne sonoreLes Choristes
Lyrics By Christophe Barratier
Music By Bruno Coulais
Orchestra: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra-Sif 309, Conductor Deyan Pavlov'
© 2004 Warner Bros. Records,WEA Music (p) 2004 Galatée Films
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- Budget
- 5.500.000 € (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 3.635.164 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 18.355 USD
- 16 gen 2005
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 88.385.944 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 37 minuti
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- 2.35 : 1