Ladj Ly’s racially charged feature debut, “Les Misérables,” which won the 2019 Jury Prize at Cannes, was selected by France’s Oscar committee as the country’s submission for the international feature ...

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Ladj Ly, the French filmmaker whose bold feature debut “Les Misérables” won the jury prize at Cannes in 2019 and earned an Oscar nomination, is set to write and direct “Dumas: Black Devil.” The epic ...

Their stories may seem quite dissimilar, set in different nations and representing different countries in Oscar's international feature category, but Ladj Ly's and Mati Diop's projects have plenty in ...

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 ...

The “miserables” of the new French film “Les Misérables” don’t have a lot to do with the famous Victor Hugo novel of the same name — just enough to underscore the movie’s power. Set in the Paris ...

Les Misérables 2019 won festival prizes last year and was a box office hit in France and Hong Kong before covid delayed its UK opening. The action is set over two days in Montfermeil (the location ...

Les Miserables is finally a smash hit in Paris after the musical's writers reworked the script to appease locals by switching out the songs from English to French. The legendary musical was initially ...

In a city where film festivals often struggle for stability and longevity, the City of Lights, City of Angeles (Colcoa) French Film Festival has long been a happy outlier, scheduling a week of French ...

Viewers tuning into the new “Les Miserables” series will see a very new, very modern take on the 150-year-old French classic. The team behind the lavish BBC and Masterpiece television adaptation are ...

His first feature has been nominated for an Oscar, but Ladj Ly has even bigger goals: Make French cinema make room for more filmmakers like him. Ladj Ly’s racially charged feature debut, “Les ...