The angry - Les Misérables
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| German title | The angry - Les Misérables |
| Original title | Les Misérables |
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| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 105 minutes |
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FSK 16 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Lady Ly |
| script | Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini , Alexis Manenti |
| production |
Toufik Ayadi , Christophe Barral |
| music | Pink noise |
| camera | Julien Poupard |
| cut | Flora Volpelière |
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The Mad - Les Misérables is a French drama by Ladj Ly , which premiered in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2019 and won the Jury Prize there. At the César 2020 awards ceremony , the film received a total of nine nominations and four awards, including best film. In addition, Les Misérables was nominated in the Best International Film category at the 2020 Academy Awards. The film was released in French cinemas on November 20, 2019 and in German cinemas on January 23, 2020.
The film is based on real events, takes place in one of the Parisian banlieues and tells of the difficult living conditions of its multicultural residents and the work of three police officers who are confronted with everyday violence.
action
Policeman Stéphane, a single father, has been transferred to the crime fighting unit in Montfermeil , a French commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department and a suburb of Paris. Tensions between the gangs who live in this area are high. On his first day at work, Stéphane gets to know work and the neighborhood, mostly from the back seat of the Peugeot of his two teammates, the aggressive and slightly psychotic Chris and the rather calm Gwada. They are trying to keep the peace in this deprived, multicultural neighborhood. In their work, they not only have to talk to schoolchildren, but also to the Muslim Brotherhood and a gangster who has appointed himself mayor of Montfermeil. Criminals and policemen know each other here very well, and as long as nobody loses their nerve, they can get along.
The real trouble begins when a ringmaster reports the theft of the baby lion "Little Johnny" from his circus. When Stéphane and his colleagues want to arrest the underage lion thief Issa, they defend themselves against a group of angry children. In the commotion, the boy is injured in the face by a rubber bullet fired by Gwada . This incident is filmed from a camera drone that the other boy Buzz controls from a rooftop. At Chris' instigation, the cops obtain the memory card with the video before Buzz has managed to publish it, thereby hiding the deed that makes it appear in a bad light from the public. The team also finds the young lion and brings him back to the ringmaster. Under sharp protests from Stéphane, the ringmaster forces the frightened Issa for a short time to face a fully grown lion in a cage, which hisses at him and, without injuring him physically, hits him with his paws. Chris then releases the traumatized Issa instead of - as Stéphane requested - to bring him to medical treatment for the treatment of his injuries. He also forces Issa to hide the real cause of his injuries.
On one of the following days, Chris, Gwada and Stéphane are on patrol again in their car in Montfermeil when their car is attacked with explosive substances by partially masked young people, including Issa. Forced to leave the car, the three chase the youngsters into a residential building. They are surrounded by these and other teenagers in the stairwell and massively attacked with various weapons. The reinforcement requested by Stéphane does not arrive. The self-proclaimed mayor comes into the stairwell to appease the youngsters, but is lynched, knocked down and kicked by them. Chris is injured in the eye by one of the teenagers with a projectile. Buzz observes the mortal danger in which the policemen find themselves through the spy of an apartment door, which he does not open for them. When Issa faces the encircled police officers with a burning Molotov cocktail, ready to be thrown , and Stéphane tells them to stop, the film fades out and the credits begin.
Violence in the Paris suburbs
The film is inspired by the riots of 2005 , which also affected Montfermeil, where two boys died on the run from the police that year and there were serious assaults in the spring of 2006, in which young people armed with baseball bats near the UMP residence - Throwing stones at Mayor Xavier Lemoine. The suburban riots are among the worst France has ever seen. Almost 3,000 people were arrested and more than 8,000 cars went up in flames. Because of the unrest, the French government had decided to give Montfermeil special support.
The story is set in this Paris suburb, which has its special place in French history, as the novel Die Elenden (original title Les Misérables ) by Victor Hugo is set in Montfermeil , but has nothing in common apart from the common location. Still, the similarities between today's angry youth and little Gavroche 150 years ago are all too clear.
production
Staff and previous films
“Like the young Gavroche in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables , the young people in particular revolt against any form of authority. [...] No longer small groups demonstrate for their particular interests, but the whole of France stands up. We have to fight together. "
Filmmaker Ladj Ly grew up in Montfermeil and his family is originally from Mali. In 2005, during the unrest in his neighborhood, Ly began to shoot the documentary 365 days in Clichy-Montfermeil about the violence that erupted in the Paris suburbs at the time. Despite all the offers, he did not sell the almost 100-hour material, but put the film on the Internet for free.
This long-term documentary after the uprisings in 2005 served as the basis for the short film Les Misérables , with which Ly was nominated for the César in 2017. The idea for The Angry - Les Misérables is based on this short film. The following year he filmed the notorious police rioting and posted it on the Internet, whereupon police behavior was investigated. The police were later sentenced based on his pictures. Already in this film he wanted to show the human stories rather than a simple news-style report.
The film is an alarm signal to those politically responsible who don't know or don't want to know what's going on in these neighborhoods: “Injustice and oppression are part of everyday life for people in the banlieues,” says Ly, because like the young Gavroche in Victor Hugos Les Misérables , especially the young people, revolted against any form of authority. Despite everything, Die Wütenden is also a film about hope and the chance for dialogue. That's why he left the last scene open. Ly ends his film with a disturbing scene and a quote from Hugo's work: “Remember, friends! There are no weeds or bad people. There are just bad gardeners. ”Regarding the parallels between his film and the novel, Ly explained that he wanted to talk about the misery and abject poverty that still ruled the suburbs 100 years after Hugo's novel. His film is also intended as a warning to politicians. 10 to 15 years ago there were riots in the suburbs, but nothing has changed since then. Now there is a new generation living there that has to be looked after.
Cast and dubbing
Ly shot his first work mainly with people from Montfermeil, with professional actors and amateur actors. Damien Bonnard plays the policemen Stéphane, Alexis Manenti and Djibril Zonga his new colleagues Chris and Gwada. Issa Perica plays Issa, who stole the circus family's baby lion. Ly played the role of little Buzz with his son Al-Hassan as his alter ego. Jeanne Balibar has a cameo as the chief of police in the film.
The German dubbing was created after the dialogue direction by Pierre Peters-Arnolds on behalf of Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH, Berlin. Finn Posthumus lends his voice to Buzz in the German version.
Filming
Most of the scenes are filmed with a handheld camera. In addition, Ly used a drone, as in his documentary, which he makes an important part of the plot and which he lets rise again and again in order to record things that will soon also be of interest to the police. Julien Poupard acted as cameraman .
publication
The film was first shown on May 15, 2019 in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival , where it was awarded the Jury Prize. Numerous festival participations followed, such as the Sydney Film Festival , the Munich Film Festival (in the Spotlight section), the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival. In September 2019 the film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema section and as part of the Leipzig Film Art Fair . In October 2019 it was shown as a graduation film at the Independent FilmFest Osnabrück . The film was released in Spanish cinemas on October 31, 2019 and in French cinemas on November 20, 2019. A cinema release in Germany took place on January 23, 2020 in the distribution of Wild Bunch and Alamode Film . Also in January 2020 there was a screening at the Palm Springs International Film Festival . Presented at the end of August and beginning of September 2020 in the open-air edition of the Festival of German Films .
reception
Reviews
At Rotten Tomatoes , the film was able to convince 85 percent of the critics and achieved an average rating of 7.5 out of a possible 10 points.
Ulrike Koltermann from ZDF heute certifies the film to be a successful mixture of chaotic suburban life, coarse police humor and terrifying violence that suddenly flares up.
Nicholas Barber of the BBC writes that Ladj Ly is proving to be an experienced tour guide of Montfermeil , showing the viewer the overcrowded apartments and the sprawling street markets, the rubble between which the young people play football and the kebab shops that the adults use as conference rooms . The relationship between the three police officers was also skillfully drawn. Just when you think that the story is heading towards an obvious end, there is a wild explosion in the plot, which is highly implausible, but so shocking, exciting and politically fascinating that it takes the film to another level. Ly's debut film is certainly impressive, yet Barber wonders if it couldn't have been great if the last few minutes of adrenaline had been the centerpiece of the plot, rather than the end.
Michael Meyns writes on programmkino.de, the cinema magazine of the AG Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater , that the film is not a remake of Victor Hugo's famous novel, but a powerful, angry parable about the relationship between the classes in Paris today. Located in a banlieue mainly populated by migrants, Ly shows the structures of violence. "He had already talked about it in a short film, now a long version that uses a bumpy dramaturgy and convinces above all with its force and its semi-documentary qualities. As a sociological study of the difficult structures of a Parisian banlieue, this is a bit thin , but as a massive, committed pamphlet of great power.
The German Film and Media Assessment gave the film the rating of particularly valuable . The jury's reasoning states that Ly is building on the Cinéma Beur of the 1980s, which gave the North African population of France its own voice for the first time. But the quality of Die Wütenden lies precisely in the fact that its protagonists do not polarize, but are all part of the spiral of violence, which undoubtedly gives the film a nihilistic basic tendency, which at the same time shows a deep striving for social realism. The film allows its protagonists several pages from which a complex picture of the French present is formed, the dramaturgy of the film is not foreseeable, and clichéd conflicts are avoided. The film also benefits from the fact that it ends shortly before the possible escalation, which makes it clear how fragile the balance of power in a multiethnic society is ultimately.
In January 2020, the jury of the Evangelical Film Work recommended Die Wütenden - Les Misérables as film of the month, because the film avoids becoming partisan and the violent violence of the police is answered with excessive violence by young people: “This film covers the reality of the Suburbs of Paris that are fundamentally different from the city center. "
Recommendation for teaching use
The online portal kinofenster.de recommends the film for the subjects French, social studies, social studies , politics, ethics and psychology and offers materials for the film for teaching purposes. In cooperation with the rental company Wild Bunch Germany, kinofenster.de also offers additional educational material.
Awards (selection)
Les Misérables was submitted by France as an entry for the Academy Awards 2020 in the category Best International Film and was nominated in this category by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in mid-January 2020 . The Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma et de Télévision the film was Les Misérables named the best film of the year of 2019. Further awards and nominations follow:
Black Reel Awards 2020
- Nomination for best international film
- Nomination for the best script ( Ladj Ly , Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti )
- Award as best film (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for Best Actor ( Damien Bonnard )
- Nomination for Best Director (Ladj Ly)
- Award for Best Young Actor (Alexis Manenti)
- Nomination for Best Young Actor ( Djebril Zonga )
- Nomination for Best First Feature (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for the best script (Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti)
- Nomination for the best film music (Marco Casanova et Kim Chapiron)
- Nomination for Best Cinematography (Julien Poupard)
- Nomination for the best equipment (Arnaud Lavaleix, Jérôme Gonthier, Marco Casanova)
- Award for the best cut (Flora Volpelière)
- Nomination for the best sound (Arnaud Lavaleix, Jérôme Gonthier, Marco Casanova)
- Awarded the audience award
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2020
- Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
Durban International Film Festival 2019
- Award for best feature film (Ladj Ly)
- Award for the best script (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for Best European Film
- Nomination for the best script (Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti)
- European Discovery Award for the Prix FIPRESCI (Ladj Ly)
European Film Festival Palić 2019
- Award for best film with the Golden Tower (Ladj Ly)
- Awarded the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film (Ladj Ly)
- Received the Michel d'Ornano Award (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film (Ladj Ly)
- Award in the category Best European Film
Independent Spirit Awards 2020
- Nomination for Best International Film (Ladj Ly)
Cannes International Film Festival 2019
- Nomination for the Golden Palm (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for the Golden Camera (Ladj Ly)
- Awarded the jury's prize
- Awarded the Prix de la citoyenneté attribué
- Nomination for the Gabriel Sherover Foundation Award - Best International Film (Ladj Ly)
- Award for Best International film with the Jerusalem Foundation Award (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for Best International Film
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2020
- Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for the FIPRESCI Prize (Ladj Ly)
Prix Lumières 2020
- Award as best film (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for Best Director (Ladj Ly)
- Award for the best script (Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti)
- Nomination for Best Cinematography (Julien Poupard)
- Awarded as Révélation masculine (Alexis Manenti)
- Nomination as Révélation masculine ( Issa Perica )
- Nomination for Best Debut Film (Ladj Ly)
- Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
Web links
- The Furious - Les Misérables in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Furious - Les Misérables in the Lexicon of International Films
- Les Misérables in the program of the Film Festival of Cannes (English)
- Les Misérables - press release (PDF; English)
- The Angry - Les Misérables - Trailer from Wild Bunch Germany on Youtube (Video)
- "I was ten when a police officer first searched me." Interview with Ladj Ly , Die Zeit, January 22, 2020
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Furious - Les Misérables . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 195745 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Angry - Les Misérables . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Christian Junge: Cannes Film Festival: These are the new talents of auteur cinema. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 18, 2019.
- ↑ Verena Lueken: New Films in Cannes: A near and bad future far away. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 17, 2019.
- ↑ Nancy Tartaglione: Ladj Ly's 'Les Misérables' Is Rare Competition Debut For A Feature First-Timer - Cannes Ones To Watch. In: deadline.com, May 16, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f Margret Köhler: The fuse is on the powder keg: An interview with Ladj Ly about "The Angry - Les Misérables". In: Filmdienst, January 22, 2020.
- ↑ 365 jours a Clichy Montfermeil. In: allocine.fr. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
- ↑ a b Konrad Kögler: Les Misérables. In: daskulturblog.com, June 30, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Thomas Abeltshauser: The angry - Les Misérables. In: epd Film, December 23, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d Ulrike Koltermann: Impressive debut film. Les Misérables: Police violence in Parisian suburbs. In: zdf.de, May 16, 2019.
- ↑ Les Misérables - Interview with Ladj Ly. In: arte.tv, October 14, 2019.
- ^ Cannes Film Festival: Les Miserables by Ladj Ly. In: arte.tv. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Nicholas Barber: Cannes 2019 review: Les Misérables. In: bbc.com, May 16, 2019.
- ↑ The Furious - Les Misérables. In: synchronkartei.de, German synchronous card index . Retrieved May 7, 2020.
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- ^ Prix SFCC de la Critique 2019. In: syndicatdelacritique.com. Accessed January 21, 2020.
- ^ Wilson Morales: 20th Annual Black Reel Awards - Nominees Announced. In: blackfilm.com, December 11, 2019.
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- ↑ Marc Malkin: Critics' Choice: 'The Irishman', 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Lead Movie Nominations. In: Variety, December 8, 2019.
- ^ Durban International Film Festival announces award winners. In: iol.co.za, July 25, 2019.
- ↑ European Film Awards 2019: Six debut films nominated for the European Film Awards. In: cineuropa.org, October 8, 2019.
- ↑ Davide Abbatescianni: European Film Festival Palić Announces its award winners. In: cineuropa.org, July 29, 2019.
- ↑ Jamie Lang and Emilio Mayorga: Pedro Almodóvar's 'Pain and Glory' Sweeps Spanish Academy Goya Awards. In: Variety, January 25, 2020.
- ↑ Joey Nolfi: Uncut Gems, Lighthouse lead 2020 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations. In: Entertainment Weekly, November 21, 2019.
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- ↑ Hannah Brown: Chained and One Hundred Percent win top awards at Jerusalem Film Festival. In: The Jerusalem Post, August 2, 2019.
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- ↑ Les nominations 2020. In: academiedeslumieres.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (PDF; 256 KB)
- ^ Fabien Lemercier: Les Misérables triumphs at the Lumières Awards. In: cineuropa.org, January 28, 2020.
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