Les Miserables
Jean Valjean had opportunity to leave prison after 19 years courtesy of an officer, but for breaking parole Javert is dedicated to bringing him back.
5 June 1985, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 September 1987, Kingston upon Thames, England, UK
17 September 1999, Havering, Essex, England, UK
13 February 1933, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
7 July 1979, Margate, Kent, England, UK
12 June 1959, Harare, Zimbabwe
27 January 1953, Warwickshire, England, UK
May 12, 2015
Tom Hooper's direction is an aesthetic crime.
February 06, 2014
Everybody curse Tom Hooper! Everybody feel the gloom! Everybody give thumbs down to the Master of the Zoom!
November 05, 2013
Ultimately the film's choppy, camera-goes-anywhere approach works well in translating a play that was never all that interested in the movement of bodies anyway-only their martyrdom.
June 10, 2016
(Director Tom) Hooper...cribs from musicals ranging from Oliver! to Cabaret to Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He misses the energy of those films, and doesn't accomplish the immediacy of Les Miz's stage incarnation.
December 28, 2012
At the heart of the "Les Misérables" movie was a good idea that just didn't work out this time. The idea was that the actors should sing their songs live on camera.
March 22, 2017
If we embrace our proximity instead of being shaken out of the characters' woes, then the film turns into a thing of beauty.
December 27, 2012
We're all familiar with the experience of seeing movies that cram ideas and themes down our throats. Les Misérables may represent the first movie to do so while also cramming us down the throats of its actors.
January 04, 2013
Fans of the original production, no doubt, will eat the movie up, and good luck to them. I screamed a scream as time went by.
April 15, 2016
Tom Hooper, what have you done?
January 02, 2013
... Jackman, who should get a Nobel Prize for the way he carries pretty much the whole undertaking on his shoulders, so protean and virile is his singing and acting throughout.
December 25, 2012
Committed fans of the musical are likely to have their affections reaffirmed. The less devout, however, may conclude that in this case more is less, and fidelity not always a virtue.
January 08, 2013
Tom Hooper gets a bit carried away with swoopy shots, and the close-ups are unrelenting, but crucially he lets the filth and the squalor in.
