"Les Miserables": Love and Revolution

I’ll say right away that I’m not a big fan of musicals, and it’s definitely not my format. I can only name two musical films from this series that I can watch and re-watch: “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Moulin Rouge.” So, to this golden pair I can now safely add “Les Miserables” by Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”) - a music film based on the legendary Broadway musical based on the famous novel by Victor Hugo.

First of all, the film has a great cast. Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean is a great performance. The actor showed the world a remarkable dramatic talent, which was dormant while Jackman was hiding under the guise of the mutant Wolverine in the X-Men pentalogy. So it's no surprise that Hugh won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. Deservedly.

Will he win an Oscar this year? At least, I hope, and I will be rooting for Jean Valjean, as well as for Anne Hathaway, who also became a triumphant Golden Globe, taking the statuette for Best Supporting Actress. The girl, who became famous playing Disney princesses, recently decided to turn away from the path of comedies for housewives and experiment a little. First she surprised everyone by appearing in a latex suit in the latest "Batman", and then she shaved off her wonderful curls to play the humiliated and insulted Fantine...

Russell Crowe is good in uniform, this is also worth noting. And the big-eyed Amanda Seyfried, and the eternal idiot Sacha Baron Cohen, and the many-sided Helena Bonham Carter.

"Les Miserables" is not an adaptation of an immortal novel. We are watching the original film version of the Broadway musical of the same name. Forgive the actors for singing all the time! But these are the laws of the genre. Nothing without a song. I advise you to download the Les Misérables soundtrack separately and enjoy the wonderful symphonic sound of winter evenings - “Do You Hear People Sing?”, “One Day More”, “On My Own”, “Master of the House”, “Castle on a Cloud” and "I Dreamed a Dream". Moreover, I reached over to the bookshelf and dusted off Victor Hugo...

Current work. Multi-layered and epic. Again, it echoes our Russian reality. Love and revolution, protest moods and all-consuming passion. Revenge and forgiveness...

Quote: “Convict creates a convict. Think about this, I ask you...”

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