“Les Misérables” is not merely named after Victor Hugo’s celebrated novel, it shares its setting and succeeds splendidly in a mutual goal. Directed and co-written by Ladj Ly, who was born, raised and ...

The story of Les Misérables is quite a familiar one, as the rather brutal French tale has been adapted and retold in a multitude of ways over the years, not least back in 2012 when the Hugh Jackman, ...

Anyone who has read or seen Victor Hugo's masterpiece knows the plot turns on the theft of a simple loaf of bread. There was no sharper barometer... On a bitterly cold day in February 1846, the French ...