In 2004, Pierre Morhange ( Jacques Perrin), a French conductor performing in the United States, is informed before a concert that his mother has died. The story is inspired by the origin of the boys' choir the Little Singers of Paris.Īt the 77th Academy Awards, The Chorus was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Song (the latter for ' Vois sur ton chemin', listed as 'Look to Your Path', composed by Bruno Coulais). Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales ( La Cage aux rossignols). “An unmissable response to an unending emergency.The Chorus ( French: Les Choristes, literally 'The Choristers' or 'The Choirboys') is a 2004 English musical drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. “One of the most nuanced and technically accomplished treatments of race, violence, and the politics of assimilation in recent cinema.” – Slant Magazine

“One of the most blisteringly effective pieces of urban cinema ever made.” – The Times “raw, vital and captivating” – Los Angeles Times Few films in recent memory have sparked more heated discussions.” Richard Peña, series curator: “Mathieu Kassovitz’s stylish and controversial chronicle of a long day and even longer night follows three friends as they travel from their familiar banlieue to the increasingly hostile streets of Paris.

Their bristling resentment at their marginalization simmers until it reaches a climactic boiling point.Ī rough-hewn work of beauty, La Haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis. Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La Haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France-specifically the low-income banlieues on the outskirts of Paris.Īimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of a dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)-a Jew, African, and Arab-personify France’s immigrant populations.

Winner of Three César Awards including Best Film Winner of Best Director Award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili

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