{"id":4394,"date":"2019-07-10T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=4394"},"modified":"2021-03-06T03:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:12:54","slug":"les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/les-miserables\/","title":{"rendered":"LES MIS\u00c9RABLES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LES MIS\u00c9RABLES<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#b41e34″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1568985666276{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

France’s Oscar Submission for 2020 Best International Feature Film Award
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

OPENING NIGHT FILM
\nMonday September 23<\/strong> \u2013 7:30 pm \u2013 Renoir & Truffaut Theatre
\nFollowed by a conversation with director Ladj Ly and actors Damien Bonnard & Djebril Didier Zonga<\/p>\n

RERUN<\/strong> – Friday September 27<\/strong> \u2013 5:00 pm \u2013 Renoir\u00a0 Theatre
\nFollowed by a discussion with actor Damien Bonnard
\n(+ Short Film Presentation: BARKING DOGS)<\/em>
\n(Screening ends at 7:00 pm)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n\"\"<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#b41e34″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1568984811000{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]U.S. Premiere<\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0France\u00a0|\u00a02019\u00a0|\u00a0Drama\u00a0|\u00a0103\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles<\/p>\n

Directed by: <\/strong>Ladj Ly
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Ladj Ly, Alexis Manenti
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Julien Poupard
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Flora Volpeli\u00e8re
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Pink Noise
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral (SRAB Films), Alice Girard (Rectangle Productions)
\nCast<\/strong>: Damien Bonnard (St\u00e9phane), Alexis Manenti (Chris), Djebril Zonga (Gwada), Issa Perica (Issa), Al-Hassan Ly (Buzz), Steve Tientcheu (The Mayor), Jeanne Balibar (The Commissionner)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: Wild Bunch
\nU.S. Distributor<\/strong>: Amazon Studios
\nU.S. Release date<\/strong>: October 18, 2019<\/p>\n

Victor Hugo\u2019s magnum opus is both lionized and shaken up in Ladj Ly<\/strong>\u2019s sprawling fresco of his native Montfermeil \u2014 a collection of housing projects crawling with sleazy cops, small-time hoods, the Muslim Brotherhood, and a ragtag group of kids left to fend for themselves… all jockeying for turf and struggling to forestall the inevitable. Majestic, stirring, gripping and compassionate, with a musical score that is, at once, moving and thrilling, the film follows an upright cop on his first day on the job, as he learns the ropes and struggles to hold onto his principles. It opens with a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise <\/em>and a joyous eruption of fraternit\u00e9<\/em>, and concludes with a resounding eleventh-hour alarm and powerful plea to diffuse the tinderbox and somehow resolve all this (justified) anger and violence. Because the revolution is ever at hand!<\/p>\n

Co-writer\/director Ladj Ly <\/strong>grew up in the Les Bosquets neighborhood of Montfermeil. Passionate about the moving image from a young age, he began making short films at the local Kourtrajm\u00e9 Collective and surreptitiously documenting violent arrests by the police on video. He inadvertently became the poster-boy for the momentous 2005 riots that erupted in those outer-city projects, thanks to artist JR\u2019s photo mural famously depicting Ly brandishing a movie camera like a machine gun, which became the backdrop for much of the press coverage of those incendiary protests. He went on to direct several shorts and documentaries. His 2016 doc \u00c0 voix haute : La Force de la parole <\/em>was nominated for a C\u00e9sar Award, as was his 2017 short, Les Miserables<\/em>, which became the blueprint for this film. In 2018, he founded the \u00c9cole Kourtrajm\u00e9, a free film school in Montfermeil. Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><\/strong>, which Ly co-wrote with Alexis Manenti and Giordano Gederlini, and was honored with the Jury Prize at Cannes this year, is France’s Oscar submission for the 2020 Best International Feature Film Award.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_padding_divider size=”75″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/opening-night.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/noir-series.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_padding_divider size=”187″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#b41e34″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/les-miserables-2.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1566513278053{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in association with:<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazon Studios<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1565456906369{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] LES MIS\u00c9RABLES [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#b41e34″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1568985666276{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] France’s Oscar Submission for 2020 Best International Feature Film Award OPENING NIGHT FILM Monday September 23 \u2013 7:30 pm \u2013 Renoir & Truffaut Theatre Followed by a conversation with director Ladj Ly and actors Damien Bonnard & Djebril Didier Zonga RERUN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4394\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}