The Chorus (2005)
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Gerard Jugnot, Francois Berleand, Kad Merad, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Marie Bunel
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So infused with nostalgia, optimism and authenticity, it will prove irresistible to the older art-house demographic.
Les Choristes isn't quite as forced and syrupy as Mr. Holland's Opus or Music of the Heart, but it's not a classic like To Sir with Love or Goodbye, Mr. Chips either.
even the most formulaic films can be rescued when formulas are applied by real talents
Un peu de rose bonbon, ça se prend bien de temps en temps, même dans le monde du cinéma.
Dudo que Los Coristas deje alguna huella en el espectador por demasiado tiempo, pero sin duda saldremos del cine con una sonrisa en los labios (...)
It never aims higher than a sweet sort of middling. And it succeeds.
The way that it embraces convention rather than invention makes Mr. Holland's Opus look like Pulp Fiction.
Somehow with all the heartstrings pulled, I didn't feel anything more than being manipulated.
The pudgy, nondescript Jugnot certainly doesn't look like leading-man material, but he delivers a low-key, carefully modulated performance and droll humor to finesse the movie's melodramatic streak and send us out flicking away a tear.
The Chorus is a fresh permutation on the Dead Poet's Society type theme.
The premise may seem a little hokey, but Barratier's characters are too endearing to be dismissed with cynicism.
This is a movie fraught with clichés, yet also so full of beautiful music and innocent merriness that its more mawkish attributes are overlooked.
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