LES MISERABLES
1ST TRAILER FOR MOVIE ADAPTATION
After the Musketeers and Count Monte Cristo another big screen novel adaptation in France will be LES MISERABLES done this time by Studiocanal and Fred Cavaye and we have the first trailer today.
Set against the backdrop of revolutionary
uprisings in France, it
follows the character of Jean Valjean, a peasant sentenced to five
years’ hard labour for stealing a loaf of bread whose story spans
several years as he is released from prison and reintegrated into
society, yet pursued by a police inspector on his trail. Vincent Lindon plays Jean Valjean, with Tahar Rahim as his nemesis Inspector Javert. Benjamin Lavernhe and Camille Cottin are evil innkeepers Thénardier and Madame Thénardier. Noemie Merlant plays the tragic figure of Fantine, whose daughter, Cosette, Valjean takes in as his own. It will arrive October 14th 2026.
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| New Les Miserables arrive this October |
A classic, but I am not a fan. Hard to imagine going to prison because of stealing a loaf of bread...what a cruel society.
ReplyDeleteGood that the heat there is letting down a bit..the weather here last few days was pretty nice. Tomorrow morning will be much cooler though..12C at 7am..
Sometimes it seems we get new LesMis every year. Here in my country you go to prison if you are a father and try to protect your son from being beaten by mobsters.
DeleteIt is a bit lower here as well, but not much and still no rain even though we have been expecting it for three days now. You need to rent me a room in your palace, I would love a 12C temp!
Again? I wonder if thy know, Hugo wrote other works, some of his plays are excellent and little known
ReplyDeleteI hated both their Musketeers and Cristo versions, boring, dull and painfully uninspired and poorly cast, so I do not have any hopes for this one either.
DeleteDezmond, I adore Victor Hugo! Les Misérables is a great novel! Of course I've read it!
ReplyDeleteYou might even get it in your cinemas since it is not American.
DeleteEspero que sea tan buena como la anterior. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteGracias.
DeleteMy god, I am so sick of Les Miserables being beat to death over and over again. Something else, please y'all!
ReplyDeleteAnd the cast ain't even interesting.
DeleteWell, I may be in the minority here, but I never get tired of Les Misérables. I like almost everything by Victor Hugo, and with this story I’m always curious to see what each adaptation chooses to bring closer: Valjean’s mercy, Javert’s obsession, Fantine’s tragedy, the social cruelty behind it all, or the more intimate side of the characters. For me, a new version is not simply “the same again”; sometimes it changes the light on a scene or on a character, and that is where these great works keep breathing.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I also think Victor Hugo, or almost any writer, would probably be disappointed by most adaptations of his work. I’m convinced the characters he had in his head looked and felt different from what cinema can finally offer. That is the risk of taking literature to the screen. It also happens to us as readers: we have already imagined each character in our own way, and I don’t mean only physically. Anyway, I’m a total fan of Les Misérables. I’m sending you the first hug I found; I think there are a few more left.
My problem here are the producers who are doing it as I did not like their Musketeers nor Cristo adaptations. My fave LesMis adaptation was the TV series one from BBC about ten years ago with Dominic West and Lily Collins, it was marvelous, only Javert was terrible, but David Oyelowo was always a terrible actor, he did not give any depth to the character. The same goes for atrociously wooden Olivia Coleman. West, Lily, and my boys Joseph Quinn and Josh O Connor were, however, incredible.
DeleteReturning the hug!