Les misérables

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Bob E Feb 10, 2020 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. See more

Janee W Jan 25, 2020 Thought provoking. Captures some of the current cultural issues in multicultural France (Europe). Well done. See more

Jonathan K @aFIREintheattic Sep 8, 2025 I don't really agree with that ending. It builds to this huge, intense climax then just… literally fades to black in this vignette, iris-out shot. I can appreciate it in theory but don't actually enjoy this kind of thing in practice. The film is clearly going for the moral dilemma/ambiguity/nuance of it all in showing that everyone's flawed, and that good and bad live on both sides. Which, fair enough. Both outcomes presented at the end would've been terrible, so maybe the point is just: "Does it really matter if we show which it is?" But for me, showing one outcome -- or even both in some clever two ending scenarios split -- would've hit harder. It would've made the ending as visceral as it deserved to be. Other than that? Pretty solid, gritty, Training Day-style French crime drama. See more

Mar 14, 2022 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. See more

Jan 24, 2022 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. See more

Aug 19, 2021 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. See more

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