Les Choristes

Christophe Barratier’s Les Choristes is a quiet film with a large heart: a music teacher arrives at a bleak boarding school and builds a choir out of the boys everyone had given up on. I bring this film in when a class needs to breathe — for what it shows about attention, talent, and the difference one teacher can make.

The Teacher I Want to Become: Why I Show My Students Les Choristes

Chiara • 2026-08-20

Once a cycle, a student asks me why I became a teacher. My honest answer runs through my favorite film. Here’s the case for Les Choristes — the movie I show when a class needs to remember what it’s here for.

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