Oh, oh. Didn’t we just endure another retelling of this classic story? And in song this last time? With an actor or two not known for their (to put it gently) pipes? No, it’s the same title, but put ...

Ladj Ly’s politically charged urban drama Les Miserables has been chosen to represent France in the Best International Feature Film category at the 92nd Oscars. The Cannes Jury Prize winner also ...

DirectorLadj Ly’s feature debut “Les Misérables” (2019) borrows a title, heady themes of inequality and police corruption and even a setting (the Parisian suburb of Montfermeil) from Victor Hugo’s ...

Ladj Ly started with videos of police confrontations with his friends in Paris’s immigrant suburbs. Now, his wrenching film “Les Misérables” is up for an Oscar. “I was inspired by my own history,” the ...

Director Ladj Ly‘s first narrative feature, “Les Misérables,” was selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and this week plays at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Anyone who thinks ...

France, summer 2018: The Equipe tricolore has just become football world champions for the second time, the entire nation reels in euphoria, people embracing each other in the streets of Paris. But ...

This “Les Misérables” is not based on the Victor Hugo novel, but on a real incident of police brutality in France. It’s that nation’s submission for the 2020 international feature Oscar. “I come from ...

France picks Ladj Ly's 'Les Miserables,' a modern-day update of the French classic, as its selection for the 2020 Oscars in the International Feature Film Category By Rhonda Richford France has ...