Victor hugo les miserables movie6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() From this footage emerged a film, 365 DAYS IN CLICHY-MONTFERMEIL, which gave me the idea of a short, then a feature film. Following the 2005 events, I decided to record and film my city Clichy-Montfermeil for a year. The aim has never been to adapt "Les Misrables" to modern times, but to enhance the thin line that connects all characters, habits and virtues of people looking for greatness, stories of several fates linked together. ![]() This story has nothing to do with Hugo’s novel per se. ![]() It would be hazardous to heroise or blame anyone here. To my knowledge, no one ever made the connection between the 1862 Gavroche dying at the barricades of Saint-Denis street and those kids, struggling with law enforcement. Scenes of violence, young men wearing hoodies, throwing Molotov cocktails towards an overwhelmed police was all over the television news. In October 2005, after the death of two teenagers, a series of riots ignited Montfermeil. Here, in this small village away from Paris, stands the Thenardier’s joint. In 1862, Victor Hugo sets the story of his book "Les Miserables" at Montfermeil, near Paris. ![]()
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