A hundred times seen movie

Rating: 1/10 (10 February 2005)

I'm sorry for the people who defends this movie, but it's a vulgar remake not just of Cage Aux Roussignols, even more than a hundred movies like this one. There's nothing new in the story, nothing fresh in the "mise en scene", nothing archetypal in the characters. The most sad thing i have seen in this movie is how mediocre is the end resolution when the guardian/music teacher goes away from the Fond D'Etang with the children saying him goodbye. The "mise en scene" is so bad that Barratier loose a great opportunity to make this moment very much emotive: the time, the rhythm, the actor direction, everything is wasted. A movie not much better than perhaps hundred more movies premiered last year. It don't deserves the Oscar.(Can somebody believe this movie has get a consideration and not House of Flying Daggers?)