Les Choristes

I just watched Les Choristes, a 2004 French film yesterday night and I felt that even a simple plot of such story in this film could attract my tears to spill out. It's mostly the music they made mainly from the Choir. Ah...I'm glad that I join the Choir in my school too, it's a great sensation to be in a whole, singing harmoniously. Anyway, the songs are a bit sad(some of them), sounding like an orphan still thinking that his father is coming to fetch him from a boarding school as said in the film. The boys in the school all need hope and encouragement from the teachers actually. So when Clement Mathieu, the new prefect came in, everything changed, as expected from the audience, for the better. When the boys showed him little respect and gave him trouble, he approached them in a different way than the other prefects. He became much of their friend, eventually finding a Choir voice in them. And there were exceptions and other problems too. In all, having watched so many touching films, I felt that there were not much difference with other good films and I expected it quite as much as it was. Still, every story, every film is unique and to be appreciated more than what the critics comment. I would still recommend this film. The boys really sang too and the background music is sung by Les Petits Chanteurs~De Saint-Marc of which one of the choristers, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, was in the film as one of the main actors. I even bought the album they were selling today, thinking that it was the soundtrack of the film. I half regretted when I looked the second time at the album but that was before I listened to them. They have truly earned recognition across the world. I hope that my Choir too, will be just like them(or even becoming better than them one day). True, my Choir is 119 years old this year and it's quite good, but sometimes we don't have much passion for singing. But that's another matter. For those who have not seen this film:

Les Choristes
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anh7Enari2U