Les Misérables (2019)
Genre: Drama / Crime
Duration: 102 minuten
Country:
France
Directed by: Ladj Ly
Stars: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti and Djebril Zonga
IMDb score:
7,6 (30.350)
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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Reviews & comments
hvdriel
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- 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
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- 923 messages
- 521 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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- 10013 messages
- 4679 votes
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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