#les mis 1995

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I made the mistake of sitting down to watch the Les Mis 10th Anniversary Concert on DVD for the first time… and I couldn’t stop crying during the finale 😭. I was a mess and then they brought out all the Valjeans from the international productions and I started sobbing all over again! I haven’t cried that hard over a Les Mis show since I saw it for the first time in the West End. I don’t know why it hit me so hard right now but that performance was something else. The full orchestra, the choir, the costumes, the voices, the cast, I was tearing up at lines that I’d never had a reaction to before. God bless Les Mis, no matter how many times I’ve seen it or how many years it’s been, it will always make me cry sad and happy tears. 🥹❤️😢🇫🇷

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Les Misérables (1995) dir. Claude Lelouch

Victor Hugo said “The best days of our lives are yet to come.”

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@projectbway​ event 01: performance - les miserables anniversary concerts [1995/2010]

and remember, the truth that once was spoken:

to love another person is to see the face of god.

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Guillaume stanning for Thénardier (from Les Mis 1995)

Warning: may cause flashbacks to really bad fandom Discourse xD

I just thought I’d post this as a sort of demonstration of what this “adaptation” is like. Although this doesn’t actually explain anything. It’s really hard to describe this movie but basically it’s people talking about Les Mis while either running from Nazis or fighting Nazis... or in some cases even while collaborating with Nazis. And everybody’s favourite Les Mis characters (or the characters they relate to or the ways they interpret the story) always say a lot about who they are as people.

I’m going to analyse this scene a bit more but I need to go into some spoilers (nothing major but I’m playing it safe) so I’m putting the rest under a cut:

So here Guillaume reveals what we more or less already knew at this point in the movie: that he’s a “Thénardier”. But he also reminds the audience that Thénardier ended up (more or less) helping the main characters, justifying the fact that Guillaume also helps Henri.

In the context of this scene Henri is both a Cosette AND a Valjean. As a child he was exploited by this man and now he’s an ex-criminal with no family, so the whole conversation is a commentary on both of these characters. (Marius and “Gavroche” are also present and relevant but they don’t join in.)

Henri being both a “Cosette” and a “Valjean” is established pretty thoroughly in the film btw. Even in small details like him being mistaken for a girl as a child and wearing a skirt while working for the Guillaumes. Also he literally says it himself at one point in the movie “I’m both Cosette and Jean Valjean!”

(There are actually multiple “Cosettes” in this movie, all coming from different perspectives, and at least two “Valjeans”.)

The plot is different but the themes and characters and relationships are there, although usually out of their original context. So it’s both an independent movie AND a Les Mis adaptation at the same time.

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Les Mis 1995 (the WW2 one) Group Watch

Despite being called Les Misérables, this movie isn’t actually a straight adaptation. It’s not even a modernization. It’s a commentary on the Brick and its message and its universality, how different people from different eras can relate to the characters and events. It’s a movie about a bunch of people reading Les Mis, watching adaptations of Les Mis and talking about Les Mis and how the stuff happening in their own lives relates to the book. While running away from Nazis.

Oh yeah, did I mention that this movie is set during the Nazi occupation of France? Because it is. And it’s not even glossed over or anything, that’s the actual plot.

So yeah, SERIOUS CONTENT WARNINGS for this movie:

Starting from the Nazi related stuff: anti-semitism obviously, holocaust, massacres, torture, off-screen rape

Aside from that there’s also all the usual stuff that you can expect in a Les Mis adaptation (well... an R rated one) and there’s even more torture and multiple suicides some of which are graphic

The essential stuff:

The date and time is Saturday February 18th at 5pm GMT

The movie’s runtime is 2h55min. We’ll have an intermission around the halfway point.

The movie is in French with English subtitles

The meeting “place” is the group watch Slack team (Team Shoujo Cosette)

Contact me if you want to join in! And please do so before Saturday! You can reach me on Tumblr or by email: teamshoujocosette[at]mail.com

Group Watch FAQ is here if you have more questions (or you can just ask me)

And as usual: EVERYBODY IS WELCOME!

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ALSO!!!!! I HAVE AN EXTRA ANNOUNCEMENT!

We’re planning to start a secondary group watch for all those who’ve been missing the group watches so far! Please fill out this poll if you’re interested: http://doodle.com/poll/cb2gu9u4xpxw35v9

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Les Mis 1995 Group Watch

Yes, this is the WW2 one.

Join us on Saturday at 5pm GMT!

[More info here]

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@persefoneshalott replied to your post:Do you know where I can get the 1995 French movie...

youtube.com/watch?v… ?¿ I think?

Thank you!:D

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For all Les Mis fans who still haven't seen this absolute masterpiece of cinema - Claude Lelouch's breathtaking "Les Misérables". How this missed being nominated (let alone winning) Best Foreign Film at the Oscars is a mystery to me. The most original and unique adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel!