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Sadly the other half of the ensemble rarely live up the high expectations established early on. And the talk of the town Anne Hathway lives up the hype: her single-shot rendition of “I Dream a Dream” shot up-close and personal is worth the price of admission alone. Eddie Redmayne enlivens the part of Marius a thankless love-stricken part that the young actor deepens with ideas of war and friendship. While not as adept at the gentler moments (with all the liberties taken with the on-set singing rarely does the musical soften and hush the performances) Jackman blasts Valjean’s many professions to godlike fanfare.

Jackman delivers as Valjean a physically demanding part both in voice and presence. With the breadth of drama going in the film there is still plenty of good to be found. The cinematic treatment spotlights the show’s clunky construction - threads could have been snipped but who wants to be the guy that cut a number from Les Misérables? When Valjean eventually makes his way to Paris the action of the film completely switches focus to a new set of characters: heartthrob rebel Marius ( Eddie Redmayne) his band of protesting students and grownup versions of Cosette ( Amanda Seyfried) and Éponine ( Samantha Barks). Valjean’s former incarcerator Javert (Crowe) is always on his tail even when the parole-breaker hasn’t seen him in nearly a decade. What works on stage doesn’t always click in on screen characters appear and reappearing without much explanation. Les Mis has a large girth filled with plot and characters and Hooper keeps it all intact.īut it’s for better or worse. In his journey he becomes the owner of a factory meets a struggling woman Fantine (Hathaway) who sells her body to earn money for her daughter tracks down the young girl Cosette and helps people in need to live better lives. He rips up his parole papers and sets out to put “Jean Valjean” behind him. It’s only after meeting a forgiving priest who gifts with a church’s silver and an alibi from the police does Valjean see a path to redemption. For that Les Mis is daring and sporadically electrifying but may leave purists wanting more.After 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread Jean Valjean (Jackman) is released into a world that no longer has a place for him. It’s a tactic that works wonders and at times falls completely flat. No lip syncing here - stars Hugh Jackman Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe belt their tunes with all the imperfection of real life.

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Performed almost entirely in song director Tom Hooper (Oscar-winner for The King’s Speech) sticks to source material while reinventing the movie musical with live performances. And the big screen adaptation of the stage hit Les Misérables manages to weave it all together (in a nearly 3-hour cut).

The presidents of Unifrance and France’s National Film Board will be allowed to attend the committee meetings as observers, but will not vote on the final selection.A musical that spans 15 years sports a principal cast of 10 and attempts to recreate the 1832 Paris Uprising is going to have a lot of meat to it. Instead, each year, France’s culture minister will name the committee, picking two filmmakers, two producers, two sales agents and another film industry figure to make the Oscar selection. There have also been accusations of potential conflicts of interest.Īs part of the overhaul, several permanent members of the committee, including Cannes Film Festival’s general delegate Thierry Fremaux, Cesar Academy president Veronique Cayla and Serge Toubiana, head of French cinema promotion group Unifrance, will no longer be part of the selection body. Last year was a case in point: France picked Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner Titane - a hyper-violent and sexually explicit horror drama that divided critics and audiences - over Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening, a more conventional drama about abortion in 1960s France. Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Expands Into U.K., Hires Sarah Lazenby to Lead New Unscripted DivisionĬritics say France’s selection committee regularly picks films that have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and are favored by French industry insiders, but don’t have the best chances of finding favor with the U.S.

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