Baron Cohen & Bonham Carter as the Thenardiers.
This film is a heart-breaker... And if you didn't work that out by the title, which literally translates as 'the sad ones' - you might be surprised to find out it's not a film about miserable lesbians (although I can smell a box office hit from that idea already!)
Set in 19th Century Paris, the film follows the life of a slave named Valjean (Hugh Jackman) who is released on parole. Over the course of nine years Valjean builds a reputation and begins to turn his life around, only to be hunted by the never resting Inspector Jalvert (Russel Crowe) who vows to see Valjean's recapture.
Fantine (Anne Hathaway) who steals the show with a heartfelt rendition of the hit classic I Dreamed A Dream, leaves her child with the Innkeepers the Thénardiers, who are the comical duo of crooks who bring a little happiness and joy to this tearjerker of a film. Of course, the hero gets the kid, and Valjean saves Fantine's daughter Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) from the pair of twonks, and raises her as his own.
And then of course there's a big fight between the government and the rebelling students (well... they had to bring out the guns to keep the blokes interested, didn't they?) and poor Eddie Redmayne leads the fight, and boo hoo nothing goes sweetly... I mean c'mon it's Les Mis... Although a little tradegy is nothing without a little love affair, so we have the conflict of Éponine, the Thénardiers daughter who is all grown up and busty and our pretty young Cosette, and oh dear - only one girl can get the boy, with a phenomonal solo from Samantha Barks and a pretty little birdsong from Seyrfried, who will get the boy, and who will suffer at the hands of the revolution?
If you don't mind everything in song, and you can get over the pronunciation of the French names, Les Mis is surely the film for you - a beautifully, poignant motion picture, that is surely to go down in history as one of the greatest theatre to screen productions of the 21st Century.
I rate it....
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ (4.5 stars)
Set in 19th Century Paris, the film follows the life of a slave named Valjean (Hugh Jackman) who is released on parole. Over the course of nine years Valjean builds a reputation and begins to turn his life around, only to be hunted by the never resting Inspector Jalvert (Russel Crowe) who vows to see Valjean's recapture.
Fantine (Anne Hathaway) who steals the show with a heartfelt rendition of the hit classic I Dreamed A Dream, leaves her child with the Innkeepers the Thénardiers, who are the comical duo of crooks who bring a little happiness and joy to this tearjerker of a film. Of course, the hero gets the kid, and Valjean saves Fantine's daughter Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) from the pair of twonks, and raises her as his own.
And then of course there's a big fight between the government and the rebelling students (well... they had to bring out the guns to keep the blokes interested, didn't they?) and poor Eddie Redmayne leads the fight, and boo hoo nothing goes sweetly... I mean c'mon it's Les Mis... Although a little tradegy is nothing without a little love affair, so we have the conflict of Éponine, the Thénardiers daughter who is all grown up and busty and our pretty young Cosette, and oh dear - only one girl can get the boy, with a phenomonal solo from Samantha Barks and a pretty little birdsong from Seyrfried, who will get the boy, and who will suffer at the hands of the revolution?
If you don't mind everything in song, and you can get over the pronunciation of the French names, Les Mis is surely the film for you - a beautifully, poignant motion picture, that is surely to go down in history as one of the greatest theatre to screen productions of the 21st Century.
I rate it....
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ (4.5 stars)