2012 · musical · drama · romance
Les Misérables
Directed by Tom Hooper2h 38m2012
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Our read: Les Misérables (2012) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded musical · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured musical / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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