{"id":8227,"date":"2020-01-18T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2020-01-18T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T14:58:48","slug":"review-les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8227","title":{"rendered":"Review: LES MIS\u00c9RABLES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other cop movie of the weekend is the one to see<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s another cop movie in theaters this weekend, and it\u2019s nominated for the Oscar. Don\u2019t let the subtitles throw you, \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables\u201d is as broadly entertaining as it is thought-provoking.

Officer St\u00e9phane (Damien Bonnard) couldn\u2019t have joined the Anti-Crime Brigade on a worse day. A recent transfer to the department from another city, St\u00e9phane is rudely introduced to the impoverished suburb of Montfermeil, France, by his cynical new partners, the abusive Chris (Alexis Manenti) and the physically intimidating Gwada (Djibril Zonga). They give St\u00e9phane the lay of the land. Gangs, brought together by race and religion, run the town.

After having some fun with St\u00e9phane, Chris and Gwada get a call about a fight in progress. They discover members of a circus company threatening a gang leader. A melee is possible, but Chris calms things down. A lion cub has been stolen from the circus. To head off a war, they must find the animal. The time bomb is ticking.

\u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables\u201d is both a conventional cop thriller and a meaningful social drama. While it leans heavily into the action elements, especially as it concludes, the film’s commentary on economic disparities and policing hits hard. Chris represents the rough, smash-mouth approach, and the devoted Gwada follows him as his muscle. St\u00e9phane is an idealist that tries a different approach to conflict resolution. It\u2019s that approach that St\u00e9phane naively thinks is new to the harsh environment in which he finds himself.

Read Jonathan\u2019s full review online and in print in the Times-Herald: https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/01\/17\/les-miserables-the-other-cop-movie-of-the-weekend-is-the-one-to-see\/<\/a>

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Oscar nominee from France is exciting cop thriller with social import.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1204,236,1914,1342,79,1097,1915,1913,91],"class_list":["post-8227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-academy-award","tag-action","tag-cop","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-foreign-language","tag-french","tag-internationl-film","tag-thriller","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8230,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}