A Beautiful, Touching Film

Rating: 8/10 (26 March 2006)

I rented this film on a whim. I had never heard of it, I knew nothing about it, but I picked it up, read the back, and said "Why not?" I was very pleasantly surprised In a beautiful remake of the 1945 film "La Cage aux rossignols," it tells a beautiful and inspiring story of a failed, in the dumps musician and out of work prefect, Clément Mathieu, who comes to work at a school for difficult young boys. The general attitude of the school is "kill or be killed, but he shares his passion for music with the boys and does his best to help them change their lives for the better. It became apparent that behind their hard exteriors, exactly how human these boys are.
It's a very beautiful and touching story, and the ending left me in tears. I whole-heartedly recommend it.