Les Misérables
The legend comes to life.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 19, 2013
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Momentum
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Virginie Ledoyen & Jeanne Moreau | |
Performer: | Christian Clavier, Enrico Lo Verso, Asia Argento, Veronica Ferres, Giovanna Mezzogiorno & Vadim Glowna | |
Directed by | Josée Dayan | |
Screenwriting by | Didier Decoin | |
Original story by | Victor Hugo | |
Composition by | Jean-Claude Petit | |
Cinematography by | Willy Stassen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: D --
Somewhere, Victor Hugo must be rolling in his grave.
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Film Blather
Rating: 6/10 --
Neeson's is an outstanding, memorable Jean Valjean who does a mighty job of anchoring this film and keeping its drama earthy and humane.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 3/5 --
[An] attractive, solid rendering of this popular classic.
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Boxoffice Magazine
I feel like saying I hate this movie. I really don't. I was just bored out of my mind by its lack of anything real.
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Movie City News
The movie's whole virtuous conception of Jean Valjean sticks in my craw. He's haunted and hunted, but he reeks of a reasoned, noble superiority that's a pretty sterile quality in the hero of an epic.
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Salon.com
Rating: B --
The new version is a traditional telling of the story, and there is nothing wrong with tradition.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
With a first-rate cast and a venerable storytelling style, it fluently condenses Victor Hugo's epic novel and retrieves some of its suspenseful momentum.
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New York Times
Product Description:
TELEVISION RELEASE: JANUARY 7, 2001 (FOX FAMILY CHANNEL)
Director Josée Dayan, screenwriter Didier Decoin (JAKOB THE LIAR), and star Gérard Depardieu had previously collaborated on an adaptation of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO and a biopic on BALZAC. They combined their talents again for this fine version of Victor Hugo's classic novel. LES MISÉRABLES has been adapted for the screen many times but rarely with such fidelity to the novel. Jean Valjean (Depardieu) is imprisoned at a young age for stealing bread. In prison, the young man hardens into bitterness under the watchful, unforgiving eye of Javert (John Malkovich), a lawman who doesn't believe in redemption. Javert continues to hound Valjean, even after the convict leaves prison and changes his ways. Valjean devotes his life to protecting the orphaned daughter of a young woman whose life he inadvertently helped destroy. This adaptation is appropriately down and dirty, effectively portraying the dehumanizing grimness of French peasant life before the revolution. The film features strong performances from Depardieu and the lovely Virginie Ledoyen as Cosette, but its real virtue is in Malkovich's performance as the misguided Javert. Malkovich captures the humanity of the character, making him as tragic a figure, in his own way, as Valjean.
Director Josée Dayan, screenwriter Didier Decoin (JAKOB THE LIAR), and star Gérard Depardieu had previously collaborated on an adaptation of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO and a biopic on BALZAC. They combined their talents again for this fine version of Victor Hugo's classic novel. LES MISÉRABLES has been adapted for the screen many times but rarely with such fidelity to the novel. Jean Valjean (Depardieu) is imprisoned at a young age for stealing bread. In prison, the young man hardens into bitterness under the watchful, unforgiving eye of Javert (John Malkovich), a lawman who doesn't believe in redemption. Javert continues to hound Valjean, even after the convict leaves prison and changes his ways. Valjean devotes his life to protecting the orphaned daughter of a young woman whose life he inadvertently helped destroy. This adaptation is appropriately down and dirty, effectively portraying the dehumanizing grimness of French peasant life before the revolution. The film features strong performances from Depardieu and the lovely Virginie Ledoyen as Cosette, but its real virtue is in Malkovich's performance as the misguided Javert. Malkovich captures the humanity of the character, making him as tragic a figure, in his own way, as Valjean.
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