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Saturday, July 07, 2007 Best movie ever!

7/07/2007 04:24:00 PM

I borrowed "Les Choristes" (The Chorus) from the school library and watched it just now and it is definitely ONE OF THE BEST FILM I'VE EVER WATCHED. I know about the film but didn't have the chance to watch it in the cinema. The music were great and the story is real heart warming. I simply love the singing , their voices are so pure and natural, you don't even have to understand the lyrics to love the song....

FYI: This is a french film.

I've attached a little video from the film with the lyrics at the bottom

This is a little excerpt of the movie from Wikipedia:

The Chorus (French: Les Choristes), is a 2004 film directed by Christophe Barratier. The plot is about a passionate music teacher who arrives at a correctional boarding school for boys and transforms their lives through music. The film stars Gérard Jugnot as Clément Mathieu the teacher, and Jean-Baptiste Maunier as Pierre Morhange, one of his students, a musical prodigy. The movie is based on La Cage aux Rossignols.

The film explores the pain of a child's separation from his parents, and the transcendence of music as the greatest form of expression.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; the song "Vois Sur Ton Chemin (Look To Your Path)" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song.

Les Choristes.....4 out of 5 stars!

La Nuit

by Les Choristes

O nuit, viens apporter à la terre
Le calme enchantement de ton mystère
L'ombre qui t'escorte est si douce
Si doux est le concert de tes voix chantant l'espérance
Si grand est ton pouvoir transformant tout en rêve heureux

O nuit, ô laisse encore à la terre
Le calme enchantement de ton mystère
L'ombre qui t'escorte est si douce
Est-il une beauté aussi belle que le rêve ?
Est-il de vérité plus douce que l'espérance ?

Vois Sur Ton Chemin
By Les Choristes

Vois sur ton chemin
Gamins oubliés égarés
Donne leur la main
Pour les mener
Vers d'autres lendemains

Sens au coeur de la nuit
L'onde d'espoir
Ardeur de la vie
Sentier de gloire

Bonheurs enfantins
Trop vite oubliés effacés
Une lumière dorée brille sans fin
Tout au bout du chemin

Sens au coeur de la nuit
L'onde d'espoir
Ardeur de la vie
Sentier de gloire

Translated version:
Look to your path

See upon your path
Kids lost and forgotten
Take their hands
To lead them
Toward other tomorrows
Feel in the heart of the night
The wave of hope
Ardor of life
Pathway of glory
Joys of childhood
Too quickly forgotten, erased
A golden light shines steadily