Les misérables

R

Released Jan 10, 2020

1 hr. 44 min.

Crime

Drama

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Members of a Parisian anti-crime squad become overwhelmed by simmering neighborhood tension and violence.

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Critics Consensus

Les Misérables transcends its unwieldy story with compelling ideas and an infectious energy that boils over during a thrilling final act.

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Bob E

Started off very slowly and then escalated into a violent and disturbing ending. In all honesty I really dont know if I liked it or not.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/10/20

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Janee W

Thought provoking. Captures some of the current cultural issues in multicultural France (Europe). Well done.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/25/20

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mike v

Les Misérables is a 2019 French drama film directed by Ladj Ly in his full-length feature directorial debut 🦁 It's ok, but I feel mixed about this one 😉 I'd recommend it if you like this genre, but if not then probably give it a miss 👍🏼👎🏼

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

A film with a beautiful aesthetic. But it is a fiction that totally distorts the reality of the French suburbs. According to the film, the victims would be these city scum. It's quite the opposite. No relation to the work of Victor Hugo.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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On the craft: Fantastically cast, flawlessly acted, super camera, good music. About the content: There is no good and evil here, only overload on all sides. The individual can no longer fix it, the problem is structural. I would like to see more films like this, political films in the best sense, that relentlessly show the problem without pretending to know the solution.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

No, not that one. This is a hard hitting Parisian drama, set in the aftermath of the French World Cup win in 2018. It's an impressive mash of The Wire (the greatest TV show ever made, not sure I've mentioned that before) End Of Watch (2012) and La Haine (1995). A cop, Laurent, has just moved to Paris from the provinces, joining a police crime squad, and is given a tour and introduction to the neighbourhood by the other two cops in his team, taking in the local youths from the projects who work for different gangsters in the area. An incident involving the three cops sets in motion a chain of events that affects all strands of society within this small district, in the space of just a couple of days. It's a race against the clock for all of the groups mentioned above, and that's not to dismiss this as your average action thriller. Les Miserables is nothing like that at all, it's an uncompromising, bleak, and frank drama with moments of shocking violence. This is a directorial debut for Ladj Ly, and it really is some inaugural film, showing some serious promise for future offerings.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Ladj Ly

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Damien Bonnard

Stéphane Ruiz, dit Pento

Alexis Manenti

Chris

Djebril Zonga

Gwada

Issa Perica

Issa

Al-Hassan Ly

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Robbie Collin

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Fleet of foot and fiery of belly, this new Les Mis is an attention-commanding debut from a filmmaker with a finger on his home town's ever-quickening pulse.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 22, 2020

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

Slips stealthily from astute observation to urgent action, reminding us of Hugo's maxim that "there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators."

Rated: 4/5

Sep 6, 2020

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

It is the most incendiary crime film to emerge from French cinema since Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 5, 2020

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Ly, Manenti, and fellow co-writer Giordano Gederlini keep the temperature at a steady simmer right up until the explosive final act which packs one heck of a kick.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 23, 2022

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Jane Freebury

The Canberra Times (Australia)

Les Miserables, the first feature film from Ladj Ly, is complex and important.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 22, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Ly's authorship only enhances the verisimilitude of this intense thriller, whose sustained immediacy leads to an open-ended discussion prompt.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 20, 2022

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Synopsis

Members of a Parisian anti-crime squad become overwhelmed by simmering neighborhood tension and violence.

Director: Ladj Ly
Screenwriter: Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Production Co: Srab Films, Lyly Films, Rectangle Productions
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Disturbing/Violent Content|Sexual References)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 10, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 9, 2020
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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