This year's edition of Kino Zona opened with a film phenomenon called "Parasite" that made a history by winning four golden statuettes at the Oscars. This Friday, February 14, the audience will see a film that had little chance of winning the award in the category of best foreign film, but won a very prestigious jury award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. We are screening an acclaimed thriller crime drama "Les Misérables"!
The plot of the film is located in the suburbs of Paris, or more precisely Montfermeil, the neighborhood where the famous writer Victor Hugo once set the plot of his literary masterpiece Les Misérables. Here the focus of the story, instead of Hugo’s Jean Valjean, is the new police officer Stephane who has been freshly assigned to the anti-crime brigade. Namely, chaos, class and racial divisions reign on the streets of Paris, and Stephane finds herself on a thin line between loyalty and justice after one incident.
Directed and written (in collaboration with Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti) by the talented Ladj Ly, it should be noted that this is a feature adaptation of his eponymous short film from 2017. In addition to the aforementioned Cannes jury award and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, "Les Misérables "won, among others, Goya for the best European film, that is, the European Film Academy Award for" European Discovery of the Year ".
