Ladj Ly’s debut feature explores poverty, policing and perseverance in a gritty suburb of today’s Paris
First a word about what “Les Misérables” is not. It isn’t another adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. Nor is it a new iteration of the musical based on Hugo’s epic depiction of poverty and pain. You will wait in vain for any of the characters to burst into songs from the score.
What is it, then? A remarkable debut feature, directed by Ladj Ly, that turns the conventions of a police thriller to its own urgent purposes. Two plainclothes cops, veteran members of a French street-crime unit, take a new addition to their team on...
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