Film: Les Choristes

One of my favourite films is 2004’s Les Choristes (The Chorus) directed by Christophe Barratier. Set in 1948 in France, this film is distinguished by its beautiful soundtrack and by a very positive message which is driven home by an emotional visit to a miserable prison-like school for disadvantaged boys. An apparently unremarkable man makes singing a tool for the boys to use to remove them from the ordinary pain of their lives to experience an extraordinary beauty.