![]() Issa is pursued by the Police after fleeing, and he is shot. A lion cub is stolen from a travelling circus by a local teenager, called Issa (Issa Perica), who wants the cub as a pet. The film focuses in detail on one dramatic incident. The Police are hated by the townspeople, who regard the system that owns them as corrupt and unjust. The film has a documentary feel to it that offers strong comment on French political and social life, especially as it relates to people treated unjustly and brutal police behaviour: Chris sexually harasses a young girl at a bus stop, menaces residents in the town’s housing projects, and engages in racist bullying. Working with a black immigrant officer named Gwada (Djebril Zonga), and under the authority of a bigoted white officer, named Chris (Alexis Manenti), Ruiz is assigned to work in a team to help him understand the environment around him. In the movie, Corporal Stéphane Ruiz (Damien Bonnard), a white police officer, is newly transferred to Montfermeil to help patrol the town. He was raised and lived in Montfermeil, and the making of the film was influenced by the 2005 riots in Paris, in which black youths lost their lives. Ladj Ly himself served a term behind prison-bars, following his lost legal-appeal in 2012. Hugo’s novel was partially set in Montfermeil, and the film stresses the fate of those who lived there. ![]() The title of the film references the 1862 Victor Hugo novel, “Les Miserables”. The film deals with events that occur in the working-class suburb of Montfermeil, situated 28 miles from the centre of Paris. It won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, and was awarded Best Film in the 2020, French Cesar Awards. It is his first full length feature film as Director and is based on actual events. ![]() This French subtitled drama is based on a short 2017 film of the same name made by the the Director (Ladj Ly), who was born of immigrant West African parents. ![]()
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