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Christophe Barratier is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. He was inspired by his uncle, film director Jacques Perrin, to pursue a career in film. Barratier has a background in classical music, having studied it from a young age. He is best known for directing the successful film Les Choristes (2004), about a teacher who forms a boys' choir at a home for delinquent youth. This film was nominated for an Academy Award and several César Awards. Barratier's films are often inspired by his own experiences and background in music. He directed two other films, Paris 36 (2008) and La nouvelle guerre des boutons (2011), both

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Christophe Barratier Research

Christophe Barratier is a French film director, producer and screenwriter. He was inspired by his uncle, film director Jacques Perrin, to pursue a career in film. Barratier has a background in classical music, having studied it from a young age. He is best known for directing the successful film Les Choristes (2004), about a teacher who forms a boys' choir at a home for delinquent youth. This film was nominated for an Academy Award and several César Awards. Barratier's films are often inspired by his own experiences and background in music. He directed two other films, Paris 36 (2008) and La nouvelle guerre des boutons (2011), both

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Christophe Barratier

 Christophe Barratier (born 17 June 1963) is a French film producer, film director
(réalisateur) and screenwriter, and lyricist.
 Barratier is the son of the actress Eva Simonet and M. Barratier. He is the nephew
(neveu) of the film director Jacques Perrin, who was an influence on his choice of
career; Perrin played the older Morhange. He attended a school like the one in the
film.
 Plays guitar (teacher was similar to Mathieu, he is the one who inspired him) and has
classical music training. He started studying music at the age of 7 and later went on
to study at the Paris conservatoire. He performed in a boys choir and won several
international competitions (passion for music relates to Les Choristes).

 Barratier has directed three successful feature films. The first was Les
Choristes (2004). He was nominated (nommé) for an Academy Award for Best
Original Song. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film as well as eight César Awards (National film awards in France,
considered highest honour), of which it won two.

 His second feature film Paris 36, starring Gérard Jugnot (Mathieu), was nominated
for Academy Award for Best Original Song and four César Awards.

 His latest film, La nouvelle guerre des boutons (2011) is an adaptation of La Guerre
des boutons (War of the Buttons), based on the 1912 novel by Louis Pergaud. It is
altered by being set during World War II and the German Occupation of France
(Similar to the setting of Les Choristes).
 ‘My film is autobiographical, but I was more comfortable setting it in the past, so it
became a universal fairy tale. I didn't want to get into issues like housing projects,
unemployment or assimilation.’
 By setting the story in the psychologically rich post-War period, yet also bringing one
scene into the present through Pépinot and Morhange, he shows how the past can
have a strong effect on where our lives are now.
 Barratier opted to set it in 1949 because, he says, it was a time when many children
were orphaned, abandoned or reeling from the terrors of enemy occupation and
economic hardship brought on by World War II.
 Waited for his father every Saturday, like Pepinot.
 Relationship with Morhange and his mother – his mother left to develop career.
La Cage aux Rossignols (The Cage of Nightingales)

 Barratier was inspired by a little-known French film entitled La Cage aux


Rossignols, directed by Jean Dréville in 1945, about a young teacher who starts a
choral group in a home for delinquent boys.
 He had watched the film as a boy.

‘Clement Mathieu seeks to publish his novel without success. With the help of a friend who
is a journalist, his story about the 'Cage of Nightingales' is slipped surreptitiously into a
newspaper...

In France, in the 1930s, a supervisor at a rehabilitation house awakens difficult teens' inner
musical tendencies by forming a choir, despite the director's skepticism. Later, this
experience is reported in a novel in a major newspaper.

The history of the 'Cage of Nightingales' is directly inspired by that of an actual educational
centre, called Ker Goat, where Jacques Dietz, Roger Riffier and their teams worked to help
children in difficulty through choral singing and innovative teaching methods.’

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