Les Choristes Movie Review

Les Choristes is a French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. This movie belong to drama and romantic genre.

The story of the Les Choristes is about a failed musician Clement Mathieu comes to a strict boys' boarding school. The tough headmaster Racine use the motto "Action - Reaction" to rule over the students. Therefore the students behave nicely in front of the teachers but always create a lot of trouble after that. Mr. Mathieu tries a different approach by introducing music into their lives to change their attitude. He forming a boy's choir to discover their musical talent. However, Mr. Mathieu like one of the troublemaker young boy's Pierre beautiful single mother which add some romantic genre into the movie.

The film was shown at the multiple international film festival  and the film also list on the highest- grossing film of 2005 worldwide. It shown that the film gain support from the audience.

However, the plot of the story had been critic as being formulaic because audience can predict what's going on happen next. The plot of the story quite alike with other films about inspirational teachers. " Their influence will change a life of the students" and we can see when the opening of the film. The movie seem cannot break from the formula of drama genre.

Reference

Edward Douglas (2005). The Chorus (Les Choristes). Retrieved from http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=7904.