Les Miserables French Film Review

It s more like a scream in this trenchant contemporary rethink of victor hugo s classic set in one of the toughest communes of paris.

Les miserables french film review. Ladj ly s les misérables is haunted by the memory of the fall of 2005 when riots broke out in the suburbs of paris and other cities riots which raged for three terrible weeks. Les misérables french docmaker ladj ly s promising narrative debut simmers with urgent anger over police brutality but could use more civilian perspective. Instead the french malian director mines his autobiography to unleash a powder keg drama of cops and pissed off kids that detonates in the suburbs outside of paris during the summer of 2018. Les miserables has a docu drama cinema verite visual approach and plenty of authenticity in its details of beat cops a minority community under surveillance and mistrust and the corrupting.

Les misérables an african french first time director has made a superb police drama. The modern movie remains a tale of downtrodden parisians and dogged policemen who hound them. There is a strong emotional connection here to victor hugo s novel les misérables. Nrplus member article i f i favorably compare a movie to fort apache the bronx you ought to pay attention.

Les miserables ma15 103 minutes do you hear the people sing. Inspired by the 2005 paris riots montfermeil native ladj ly s tale also deals with the issues of poverty bigotry and social justice. This vibrant rollercoaster of a movie is set in the same impoverished paris suburb that led victor hugo to pen his famous novel. Les misérables is a 2019 french drama film directed by ladj ly in his full length feature directorial debut from a screenplay by ly giordano gederlini and alexis manenti based on ly s 2017 short film of the same name.

This review originally ran on january 10th and is being re run because it s now on amazon prime. Manenti stars alongside damien bonnard djebril zonga issa percia al hassan ly steve tientcheu almany kanoute and nizar ben fatma.