Tom Hooper, 2012) – Inspector Javert goes on a persistent chase after Jean Valjean who breaks parole to save Fantine’s daughter in his search of redemption. Sing your song and dream your dream in the comments.Les Misérables (dir.

Can this movie ever deliver like the stage show did for decades for millions and millions of fans? And if does can it ever win enough Oscars? With long awaited epics where anticipation is built as high as revolutionary barricades on the dreams and tears of feverish fandom, the risk of disappointment always looms as dangerously as approaching well armed government troops.This definitely got old by the 118th minute of The King's Speech two years ago. Not the off-center compositions all over again.SINGING WHORES! That never ever gets old (see also: Moulin Rouge!, Candide, Chicago, Sweet Charity, Miss Saigon, Cabaret, Gypsy, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Oliver!, etcetera).She was Gah!mazing in Rachel Getting Married) Anne Hathaway's overdue Oscar! (shut up.When hope was high and life worth living. 'I dreamed that God would be forgiving ♫' over an image of Jean Valjean in church? I can already hear myself weeping in the movie theater.Not great voices that can't act or great actors that can't sing. This is what musicals require that Hollywood always forgets: great actors with impressive vocal instruments.

Dreaming that iconic dream gorgeously over the handsome imagery.

It should be clear to anyone reading The Film Experience that Nathaniel (c'est moi) lives for musicals so there is no way he'd ever miss this.

Les Misérables trailer and discussion after the jump Q: You know what I always wanted for Christmas?Ī: A miserabilist musical epic about whores, convicts, slum lords, revolutionaries and starving street urchins in 19th century France.Īnd thanks, Baby Jesus! Even though your dad was not as forgiving as Fantine (Anne Hathaway) dreamed.

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