In the beginning, there was the Voice. Classical guitarist-turned-filmmaker Christophe Barratier needed someone who could really sing. He was about to make a movie, "Les Choristes," about a group of ...

A relentlessly heartwarming addition to the annals of One-Teacher-Can-Make-a-Difference pics, "Les Choristes" takes place during one semester at a boy's boarding school-cum-reformatory in small-town ...

Les Choristes: Drama. Directed by Christophe Barratier. Written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval. With Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Marie Bunel. (PG-13. 96 mins. At ...

France'sfilm council (CNC) has announced that Christophe Barratier's Les Choristes will represent the country as this year's submissionfor best foreign language Oscar. Budgetedat Euros 5.5m, the film ...

A Degas painting stolen from a Marseille museum in 2009 has been found on a bus near Paris. The French culture minister, Françoise Nyssen, said authorities discovered the artwork in the luggage ...

In 1987’s Summer School, an unconventional teacher (Mark Harmon in a Hawaiian shirt) gives his all to inspire a group of misfit students. Throw out the questionable wardrobe, goofball antics and ...

A box-office smash in its native France and the winner of an Audience Award at the 2004 Austin Film Festival, this kindly and spirited film doesn’t exactly break the mold of the heartwarming, ...

Starring Gérard Jugnot. In French with English subtitles. Unrated. Les Choristes, in other words, is more of a commercial product than an objet d'art. On the other hand, it is a very good commercial ...

One such school is L’Fond de L’Etang, which literally means “Rock Bottom,” an old French castle that looks very much like a prison. When mild-mannered Clement Mathieu (popular French actor Gerard ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Not only that, even if the collar-loosening turns out to be only temporary, it's enough to persuade the arch-authoritarian principal of ...