Title: Miserable Les Miserables
Product review: I guess I would have thought of this movie as fair enough had I not both read the book and seen the musical in advance. Having done both, however, I was very disapointed with this version of Victor Hugo's great tale of the French Revolution.Although Bille August is a great director, this movie is much too typical of Hollywood to be very interesting. Eponine is written out of the story(!). The whole political message (of quite a historical importance) has had to give way for a clishé love-story.Compared to the Marius in the book and in the musical, this Marius seems stupid and superficial.My advice is: Do not buy/rent this movie if you have read the book or seen the musical. It will bore and disapoint you.
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