Slow to start, the movie is all about showing the now well known desperate social situation in some French suburbs. Yes this is also France and what everyone is tired about, people living in misery over there and people hearing about this kind of scenario all the time in the media. Is is just a reminder that nothing has changed, an attempt to draw attention again? This kind of intrigue has been done before, these kind of characters, with good acting as often but once again they don't show any hope. You can't take one side because no one's right. For once it's not all about drugs yet they couldn't make a nicer plot as if there was nothing else to talk about?! It's all a display the mess, how integration doesn't work, how respect is lost, how violence and disdain are at the core of social interactions... this plus the slow (trying to be somewhat contemplating) pace of the movie does not make it one of my favorites of the genre.
Review of Les Misérables
