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A choral society's male members enlist in World War I, leaving the demanding Dr. Guthrie to recruit teenagers. Together, they experience the joy of singing while the young boys grapple with their impending conscription into the army. (R, 113 min.)
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1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral’s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local young males to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, their best bet seems to be Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) – driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together. [Sony Picture Classics]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Genre: History, Music, Romance, War
"An ode to those whose lives are derailed by war. Healing in so many ways."
— Dwight Brown, DwightBrownInk.com
"A moving account of music as a way of coping with war, as well as keeping it at bay."
— Glenn Kenny, New York Times
"Beautifully crafted and performed. The music is glorious. What more could one ask for."
— Leonard Maltin, leonardmaltin.com
"A sprawling First World War period comedy drama about a British choir reaching for normalcy through performance."
— Robert Daniels, Screen International
"A quiet and consistent pleasure: an unsentimental but deeply felt drama which subcontracts actual passion to the music of Elgar and leaves us with a heartbeat of wit, poignancy and common sense."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"This quietly plangent, drily comic piece about a choirmaster (Ralph Fiennes) staging an Elgar oratorio in a Yorkshire mill town superficially resembles one of those Blair-era underdog comedies that were all period-accurate pluck and regional accents..."
— Robbie Collin Daily, Telegraph (UK)
