Entertainment
French film Les Miserables uses police drama to explore class, race and injustice in Paris projects – ABC News
Les Miserables follows in the steps of La Haine, combining a tense police procedural with an inside view of one of France’s most notorious housing projects.
Despite its bold title, there is nary a candlestick or a musket in sight in Ladj Ly’s Cannes Jury Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated film.
Instead, the French-Malian director mines his autobiography to unleash a powder keg drama of cops and pissed-off kids that detonates in the suburbs outside of Paris during the summer of 2018.
Known as the banlieues, France’s low-income housing projects are widely seen as eyesores failed experiments of the post-war era, now synonymous with unemployment, socia…
-
Business23 hours ago2 Low Cost Active ASX ETFs to consider
-
Noosa News22 hours agoQueensland government to review greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
-
Noosa News23 hours agoYoung voices shape Sunshine Coast’s future
-
Noosa News20 hours agoSudden death investigation, Maroochydore – Sunshine Coast