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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Oscar nominated French film “Les Miserables” may share the same title as Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, but it’s far from an adaptation or retelling. Rather, it’s a harrowing reworking of the same ...

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 ...

Nobody sings “Master of the House” in the new French film “Les Misérables.” And not a single character is named Jean Valjean or Inspector Javert. The action’s set more than two centuries after 1815, ...

Fresh off one of the most ambitious shoots of his career, Tahar Rahim landed at the Marrakech Film Festival buzzing about ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Modern-day sequels to Victor Hugo's classic "Les Miserables" have been allowed after a French court threw out a suit from the 19th century master's descendants, a lawyer for ...

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 ...