Release Year: 2005 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 95 minutes Other Title: Chorists, Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu, Die, Les Choristes Director: Christophe Barratier Producer: Jacques Perrin, Arthur Cohn, Nicolas Mauvernay Distributor: Miramax Films
synopsis
Set in 1948, a professor of music, Clement Mathieu, becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation for minors. What he discovers disconcerts him--the current situation is repressive. Through the power of song, Clement will try to transform the students.
cast
François Berléand as Rachin Gérard Jugnot as Clément Mathieu Jean-Paul Bonnaire as La Père Maxence
quote
[Chabert is dragging a boy off for punishment]
Clément Mathieu: What are you doing?
Chabert: He stole my watch. From my room.
Clément Mathieu: Where are you taking him?
Chabert: Dungeon.
Clément Mathieu: Wait!
Chabert: Why?
[Chabert and the boy disappear into the school]
Clément Mathieu: He's my only baritone.
What a great way to celebrate St. Pattys day with this wonderful picture of 3 Leprechauns singing a few Irish tunes. Enjoy Jeanie. Source: Ezthemes Size: (129 Kb)
What a great way to celebrate St. Pattys day with this wonderful picture of 3 Leprechauns singing a few Irish tunes. Music by The Ames Brothers, Im Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover. Enjoy Jeanie. Source: Ezthemes Size: (826 Kb)
Teaching below the college level is difficult, particularly in inner cities where there's no particular respect for learning in so many families. Shakespeare is part of the curriculum in many schools, though one wonders how effective such learning is at age 16 when maybe one out of every hundred in the adult population would go to a Shakespearean performance even if the tickets were free. If a teacher is hapless enough to get a classroom of orphans and delinquents, teaching is even more difficult. Add to this a European post-war time when orphanages would be full-up and society is still chaotic, and you have a recipe for disaster unless, perhaps, you taught a subject like soccer. That's still not all. Imagine that the teacher is assigned to a class of tough and lonely kids who are not even the same age–that varies from 8 to 13–and the guy with the chalk is not some young, handsome, athletic type that the kids might identify with but an aging, bald fellow, why, you'd say there's no hope at all. Oops, one more thing. The principal of the school, Rachin (Francois Berleand) is not at all sympathetic to the new teacher and orders that he call the school director "sir."
