Tag: Les Misérables
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‘Les Indésirables’ Review: Ladj Ly Tackles Another Parisian Suburb On The Verge [TIFF]
When it comes to social injustice in 21st-century France, writer and director Ladj Ly has been on the frontlines of history. A child of the Montfermeil housing projects in the Paris suburbs, he captured the rage of the 2005 riots that engulfed the neighborhood in the 2006 docu short “365 jours à Clichy Montfermeil.” His…
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‘Les Indésirables’ Review: Ladj Ly’s Potent but Contrived Follow-Up to ‘Les Misérables’
It would be easy to mistake Ladj Ly’s “Les Indésirables” for a direct sequel to his 2019 debut “Les Misérables.” Beyond possessing a similar title, some of the same cast, and a shared focus on the oppressive living conditions of Paris’ most vulnerable immigrant communities, Ly’s second narrative feature picks up where his first left…
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Les Indésirables review – Ladj Ly’s clumsy social drama is a let-down
First look review: the award-winning director of Cannes hit Les Misérables returns with a muddled and blunt-edged film about underprivileged ParisiansThe films of Ladj Ly, heir apparent to the mantle of France’s street-level cinéma de banlieue, land with the force of molotov cocktails – scorching, destructive and imprecise. His narrative debut Les Misérables took the…
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‘Les Indésirables’ Trailer: Ladj Ly’s Latest Film About Civil Unrest In France Premieres At TIFF Today
TIFF has its share of titles having their world premieres over the next week-plus, but Ladj Ly‘s new film “Les Indésirables” may be one of the most notable internationally. Ly’s follow-up to his previous film “Les Misérables,” which screened at TIFF in 2019 and earned nominations at the César Awards and the Oscars, is another…
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With the TIFF Premiere of ‘Les Indésirables,’ Ladj Ly’s New Film Is Ready to Explode
Ladj Ly’s 2019 debut feature, “Les Misérables,” took 15 years to make but received kudos in France and scored a 2020 Oscar nomination. Ly received multiple offers to direct Hollywood films, but chose to return to France and make “Les Indésirables,” which Ly initially called “Bâtiment 5” after the grubby high-rise tenement — now razed…
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Soul Food Films to handle sales on Locarno premiere ‘The Guardians Of The Formula’ (exclusive)
Dragan Bjelogrlić’s tale of secret nuclear experiments in Cold War Yugoslavia to be repped by Belgrade-based sales firm.Belgrade-based boutique sales outfit Soul Food Films is to handle international distribution of Serbian filmmaker Dragan Bjelogrlić’s third feature film The Guardians Of The Formula which will have its world premiere on Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Friday evening…
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Netflix’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’: Everything We Know So Far
When Hollywood was just acres of orange groves, and the film industry was still centered in Fort Lee, New Jersey, books were already being adapted to movies. The first Shakespearean play was adapted for the screen in 1899 (King John), and the first feature-length film was an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables in…
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Anne Hathaway Never Deserved the Hate
It is always both fascinating and disheartening to see which Hollywood icons become the target of backlash for little to know reason as Anne Hathaway has in recent years. While occasionally a poorly-worded comment or a disappointing new project can be enough to seemingly harm someone’s reputation, the Internet often turns its wrath on certain…