Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.

Rating: 9/10 (13 July 2007)

This is a "feel good" French movie. The subtitles are clear and easy to read. The unlikely hero is a balding, round faced, unassuming, middle aged man. He's a retired musician who becomes an assistant teacher at a boarding school for wayward boys. He decides to "unretire" and teach the boys how to sing and form them into a choir. The results are amazing. The boys sing beautifully, and their soloist has the voice of an angel. I don't know if this makes them better boys, but at least they're not getting into any trouble while they're singing. The principal at the school strongly believes in Newton's Third Law of Motion - for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction, meaning that when the boys do wrong, they're punished. Eventually, he fires our hero, who leaves on a bus, taking the youngest boy with him, I assume to adopt.