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Les Misérables (2019)

Drama | 102 minutes
3,68 407 votes

Genre: Drama / Crime

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: France

Directed by: Ladj Ly

Stars: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti and Djebril Zonga

IMDb score: 7,6 (30.248)

Releasedate: 14 November 2019

Les Misérables plot

Stéphane has just left Cherbourg to join the brigade dealing with crime in Montfermeil. He is taken in tow by his new experienced colleagues, Chris and Gwada. Stéphane soon discovers the tensions between the various groups in the neighbourhood. When they make an arrest, the three men are in the large minority and their actions are also filmed by a drone.

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hvdriel

  • 397 messages
  • 357 votes

This was a disappointment... No dirty images of an unhinged suburb that gets under your skin in a documentary way, but a predictable story that is neatly told and acted with fairly caricatured characters ( one cop is a bit too intense; the newcomer a bit too sweet) and some superfluous scenes (lion scene, explicit Victor Hugo references) that I kept looking at.

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Beun de Haas BV

  • 917 messages
  • 518 votes

In the raw Les Misérables you follow three police officers who try to maintain order rather street wise in the concrete jungle of the Parisian suburbs. With the riots of 2005 as a frame of reference, the banlieue therefore remains a hotbed for poverty, violence and radicalisation. Yet debuting director Ladj Ly succeeds in portraying that life goes on there too and that the blame for the impoverishment must mainly be found with 'the system'.

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Filmkriebel

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Strong mix of reality TV and social drama. It was exactly a long episode of the neighborhood police, but the makers raise the right issues.

A cop is transferred to the Paris banlieues and with two more experienced colleagues discovers a no-go zone with its own laws. Violence is a daily occurrence, and it doesn't help that the police provoke and deal with it in a repressive way. You can feel where it's going: escalating violence.

The banlieues are an invention of a post-Gaullist France that didn't know what to do with its immigrants and left them to fend for themselves in ghettos, where they live a second-class citizen's life. This has repeatedly turned against the state with unprecedented guerrilla scenes, because the blacks and Arabs are interconnected and show solidarity, which is also illustrated here. Moreover, those banlieues are hotbeds for (Muslim) extremism and hatred of the system.

The fact remains: France owes this to its own lack of political vision. I therefore saw in the film a call for dialogue and more mutual understanding if the violence would ever end there. Very good fast-paced film that doesn't point the finger at anyone and doesn't divide into "good guys" and "bad guys".

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