les miserables full movie with subtitles

Here we have a dutiful, even respectable, adaptation that lacks the rabble-rousing usually associated with 'Les Miserables.' The sets and locations are handled well, the period looks convincing, but the story is lame. In the meantime, this dramatic version is by the Danish director Bille August, whose work (' Pelle the Conqueror,' 'Best Intentions' from the Bergman screenplay 'House of the Spirits'), while uneven, has shown a juiciness and complexity. There is, I think, an obvious person to direct it: Alan Parker, whose ' Evita' and 'Pink Floyd the Wall' show he is one of the few modern filmmakers who understands musicals.

This is the second movie made of 'Les Mis' during a decade when the 'musical version' has been promised annually. That musical, by the way, is a long time coming. Javert is the kind of man who can say with his dying breath, 'I've tried to lead my life without breaking a single rule.' He means it, and will never cease his pursuit of Valjean, even though the other man, as mayor, spared his job: 'I order you to forgive yourself.' As Javert pursues his vendetta against a man who has become kind and useful, Marius leads the mobs to the barricades, which look a lot here as they do in the stage musical. Cosette falls for the fiery radical Marius ( Hans Matheson), who is being tailed by the police, which puts Javert once more onto the trail of poor Valjean. Then Cosette, now a young woman played by Claire Danes, yearns for freedom Valjean, against his better wishes, takes a house for them. There he and the child, Cosette, spend 10 years. With the unyielding Javert forever at his back, Valjean takes his money and flees to Paris, taking refuge in a convent he had once (foresightedly) given money to. Thurman's performance is the best element of the movie. Valjean discovers her plight (he was unaware of the firing), nurses her through a fatal illness and promises to care for the child. Then fate re-enters his life in the person of Inspector Javert ( Geoffrey Rush), a police official who recognizes him from his years at hard labor and wants to expose him: In this world, if you once do something wrong, you are banished forever from the sight of those lucky enough not to have been caught.Ĭonsider, in the same light, poor Fantine ( Uma Thurman), fired from the factory and forced into prostitution because it is discovered she has a child out of wedlock. As we rejoin him some years later, he is the local mayor, respectable and beloved, trying to teach himself to read and write. Valjean sells the silver, gets a job in a provincial factory and uses the nest egg to buy the factory. In one of the most famous episodes from Hugo's novel, the bishop tells the police he gave the tramp the silver, and later tells Valjean: 'I've ransomed you from fear and hatred and now I give you back to God.' There was a similar scene in Claude Lelouch's 1995 'Les Miserables,' which intercut passages from the novel with a story set during World War II it was touching, but this version feels more like a morality play. Valjean is taken in, fed and sheltered, and tries to steal the bishop's silver.

Les miserables full movie with subtitles