The Miserables

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• Genre: Thriller - Intrigue

It has its one that the Spanish production Mother and the French production Los Miserables coincide on the billboard, because both have the same genesis: to convert a cult short into a feature film. In this case, it is the story of a policeman who joins a brigade that operates in one of the most depressed neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris and must learn to marches forced to live with immigrants, criminals and even their own partners, cynical and disenchanted veterans who believe that the best way to put out a fire is by throwing hectoliters of gasoline ... before a lion and a drone enter the scene, causing an unstoppable spiral of violence.

without manichaeism or esthetic concessions, Ladj Ly signs the distressing chronicle of a situation that limits the truth

This is the start of Ladj Ly's fast-paced opera, director of Malian origin who knows very well what he is talking about, and it shows in the truth that it oozes the film, because he still lives in one of the neighborhoods that portrays a film whose title refers to Victor Hugo's celebrated novel, of which it is not at all an adaptation but whose combative and vindictive spirit he uses as inspiration and beats throughout the entire footage , and with El odio , by Matthieu Kassovitz, and Training Day , by Antonie Fuqua, as indisputable referents. Without Manichaeism or aesthetic concessions (the story ranges between documentary tone, neorealism and a dream- pesadillesco point), Lj signs the anguishing chronicle of a situation at the limit, fully current in too many parts of the world , for which he does not propose, or is unable to propose, no possible solution. Maybe, because there isn't one ...

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