waldenpond88

Filmed at Godolphin Hall in Cornwall as Donna Columb's country home, this film has an ending which is true to the novel by Daphne DuMaurier even though one of the previous posters from 1999 doubts it.

Pirate Anthony Delon is as attractive as his famous father Alain Delon. William was a very likeable character and Donna is convincing as the catholic, brave and free-spirited aristocrat from London.

I've read Daphe DuMaurier's novel countless times, I like it even better than "Rebecca" and "The House on the Strand" (why was that one never filmed?). I've been to Cornwall twice and went to Godolphin Hall which was used as Donna's home. The 1944 original movie with Joan Fontaine (who was a bit old for the role) and Arturo de Cordova was not bad, but due to WW II and the Germans throwing bombs on England it could not be filmed in Cornwall. And the California Coast is unfortunately no substitute for the Cornish Coast.

Last, but not the least I would like to let movie buffs know that Daphne DuMaurier was inspired to write this novel after having spent her honeymoon with her husband on his small yacht Ygdrasil on the Helford River which is an inlet, not a real river. There indeed is a Frenchman's Creek and I spent my 1987 trip to Cornwall in a self-catered cottage in the woods opposite of Frenchman's Creek and over-looking Helford River (check out Calamansac).

I watched the bonus material first and was amazed about the praise by producer Arthur Cohn. According to him this movie was the most successful film in France with 8 million viewers at the movie theaters. Millions of people bought the soundtrack afterwards. Really?

Yes, the choir is lovely, but there were other movies in the past about choirs and other movies about boys' schools, so this was nothing new.

I always take "Dead Poets Society" with Robin Williams and Sean Robert Leonard as my personal gold standard.

And "The Chorus" certainly didn't reach it. It's a nice film and has some touching scenes, but it's rather average. That's why I rated it 5 stars.

Right now my husband and I watch all Renée Zellweger movies that our public library can get us and this was the second disappointing film together with the horror flick "Case 39".

We both were wondering if Zellweger has a gambling problem and needed the money? What on earth made her agree to do this awful film?