Ly is proud to be representing France at the Oscars, and he says he'll do all he can to help his country win.Lionsgate/Twentieth Century Fox/Netflix/BBCįilm musicals. "Every time we lift our head above water, there's always these same groups that try and squash us," Ly says. He says the accusations are part of an attempt from the far right to crush him ever since it was announced Les Misérables would be representing France at the Oscars. Ly says that, like the teen actors in his film, he's a product of his surroundings and he wants to help them rise above their misère the way he has. That was proven false, but another paper later verified that he was convicted of complicity in an attempted kidnapping, for which he served a two-year sentence. Last month, two right wing newspapers reported Ly was once convicted for taking part in a murder. and now the door is open you can go get in."īut opening windows has also made Ly a target of backlash.
"You know, when the door is not open you have to go to the window?. Beye says it feels like Ly opened a window: "People whose stories are not heard most of the time."įor Mbathio Beye, originally from Senegal, Ly is providing students like herself with opportunities they never thought they'd have. "For the first time I told myself maybe there's a way to tell our own stories. Yassine Lassar, 29, is a math teacher who lives in the neighborhood. Les Misérables won the 2019 Jury Prize at Cannes. Lined with high-rise housing projects, factories and dingy kebab shops, it looks nothing like the Paris audiences are used to seeing on screen.ĭirector Ladj Ly is pictured following the awards ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019. It's a place plagued by police violence, ethnic clashes and little opportunity. This is the France the country's politicians love to idealize - a country where people of all classes, colors and religions can feel united under a common French fierté.īut then the scene shifts to the dreary working-class suburb of Montfermeil. The streets are flooded with people from all backgrounds draped in the colors of the French flag. But this film is a modern-day cop thriller - and it's France's entry to the Oscars.Īs the new Les Misérables opens, France has just won the World Cup and an ecstatic group of black teenagers is making its way into central Paris. It is set in the same Paris suburb that inspired part of the 19th-century classic, and it is about that neighborhood's impoverished residents.
The new film, Les Misérables, is not another adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel and it's definitely not a musical.
Ladj Ly's 2019 film Les Misérables opens on an ecstatic scene - France has just won the World Cup and happy Parisians are celebrating in the streets.
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