The Chorus (2004)
Directed by Christophe Barratier
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
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The Chorus conforms neatly to the Dead Poets Society template, even down to the O Capitain, mon Capitain scene.
With its obvious parallels to “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” “Dead Poets Society,” “Music of the Heart” and “Mr.
Taken on its own merits, pretending that you've never seen Dead Poets Society, Stand and Deliver, The Blackboard Jungle, Conrack, Mona Lisa Smile , Dangerous Minds, Renaissance Man, Coach Carter , and so on and so on, The Chorus is still unspeakably maudlin and presented in so straightforward a fashion that if you did the right thing and asked for your money back after five minutes, you could reasonably fake having seen it to a circle of friends, who will admire your stamina in having sat through the whole benighted thing.
A popular theme not always done with music (think Dead Poets Society, Dangerous Minds, and The Emperor's Club, to name a few recent examples), this kind of movie often treads a dangerous line between effective drama and overblown melodrama.