The Choir

****

Reviewed by: Keith Hennessey Brown

Les always longed to be one of the "hard guys," but no sooner has he started at his new school, than the real hard guys select him as a target - were his parents expecting a daughter, or why else would they give him a girls' name?

Then Les gets an invite to join the school choir. Not for him, he thinks - the last thing he wants is to be seen with the other nerds. But membership has its unexpected privileges...

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Angela Murray's The Choir is an accomplished, unpretentious short. The writer/director knows exactly what she wants to say and how to express it on film.

She neatly sidesteps the usual akwardnesses of school set tales - the kids don't swear or behave like the real thing - by emphasising the artificiality of the piece, presenting the titular choir as a benevolent Mafia style outfit, complete with a hidden base and the most unlikely of Godfather figures.

Reviewed on: 23 Apr 2003
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A boy called Les is bullied at school, until he joins the choir.

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Director: Angela M Murray

Writer: Angela M Murray

Starring: Fergus Nimmo

Year: 2002

Runtime: 8 minutes

Country: UK

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