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 ...

The Golden Globe-nominated, French-language drama "Les Choristes" is a movie you've seen many times before, but the setting is different, its characters are well drawn and it delivers its uplifting ...

The father of one of thesingers appearing on the soundtrack of France's biggest box office hit of 2004,Les Choristes, raised questionsTuesday as to the remuneration received by the film's young stars.

A decade ago, French cinema delivered one of the must-see films of the year. It was La Haine: a rap-scored, denunciatory firebrand of a movie that dealt with social unrest and the disaffection of ...

There was a bit of a stink in France this past fall when the French decided which film would be the nation’s contender for the best-foreign-film Oscar. It wouldn’t be the arty, witty, ambitious and ...

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 ...