TELL US: What Do You Think About Les Miserables the Movie?
Les Miserables staring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe is a musical and visual feast – but not for the whole family.
The must see holiday movie of the year arrives Christmas Day when Les Miserables opens, staring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. The movie adaptation of the world’s longest running musical, features Oscar winning Director Tom Hopper’s innovation of actors singing “live”, taping their singing parts while filming rather than lip synching and adding their songs in post production. The result is best captured when Anne Hathaway, as the desperate single mother Fantane, sings “I Dreamed A Dream” and the audience sobs with her in response to her character’s despair at her life as a prostitute. Hopper honors his source material, which dates back to Victor Hugo’s story, while providing a visual feast from the opening scene where you brace yourself…
