Pleasant and enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2005)

"The Chorus" is a subtitled French film about a portly, mild mannered teacher who takes a job at a marginalized boy's school and finding his young students to be unruly and disruptive he sets about to sublimate their behavior by organizing them into a choir. A sweetly sentimental tale with a Disneyesque feel, "The Chorus" plods along predictably in flashback and winds up quickly with a somewhat anticlimactic conclusion. A very pleasant, well crafted, and even-tempered film with some lovely choir music, "The Chorus" is a bit corny but should be a pleasing watch for sentimentalists and others interested in simple and heart warming film fare. (B)