Les Miserables (Original French Version) NO SUBTITLES

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DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Unknown)
Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, Import
Running Time: 384 unknown-units
Published: 2000

DVD Reviews of Les Miserables (Original French Version) NO SUBTITLES

DVD Review: Depardieu and Malkovich.... Powerful Performances
Summary: 5 Stars

This review refers to "Les Miserables" (Original French Version)

This 4 part production of "Les Miserable", that was televised, is magnificent. It is the best I have seen. There are no subtitles in any language on this edition, but it didn't matter. Gerard Depardieu was absolutlely Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who suffers and sacrifices on his journey to redemption. Javert, the lawman intent on the capture of Valjean, comes alive in the form of one John Malkovich. My French is limited(to put it mildly), but I had no trouble getting swept away to the time, the place, the events, and with every emotion portrayed exquisitly by these intense actors. Charlotte Gainsbourg as Fantine, Virginie Ledoyen as Cosette, Christian Clavier and Veronica Ferres, as M. and Mme Thenardier, and Enrico Lo Verso as Marius add their remarkable portrayals as well.

The DVD(ImaVision) is an import from, Canada. There are 2 DVDs, each in their own snap case, with 2 parts of the 4 on each disc. Each disc running about 3 hours. The picture was very nice, clear, with good colors. There is a scene with Fantine in the cold stark streets, looking like death, and draped in a red shawl that took my breath away. There are some extra feautres on both discs(pertaining to Hugo, the story and the actors), but this may be a time when your French would come in handy, as they are all in the form of production notes, and all in Francais! I bought this new, and there were no inserts that came with it. The back of the box shows these DVD specifications: NTSC, Zones 1-6, Continent 2 DVD9. I don't see any available at this time, but check with your local video store(maybe they can order it), or put it on your wish list to watch for it to become available.

Region 2 viewers, click hereLes Mis??rablesand check with sellers for languages, subtitles etc.

If you love this magnificent work by Victor Hugo, you MUST see this version. The performance is powerful!

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Merci Beaucoup....Laurie

DVD Review: i dunno...
Summary: 3 Stars

As far as the acting goes, I thought this was very well acted, but the one sticking point I had was the whole love triangle between Valjean, Cosette, and Marius. I have read the unabridged version (one of my favorite books) and I never got such a thing from the book. I don't think that Valjean ever loved Cosette in a romantic way, but did want her for himself in a selfish way, for the love (non-romantic and very fatherly) that he did have for her. This was one of the several tests that Valjean goes through during the novel. If you really read the novel you will find it is more about Valjean being tested to go back on his promise to change his life than anything else. He always makes the right choice, even after trying to convince himself otherwise. Such is the case with saving Marius and allowing the marriage. He does it for her good then withdraws from her life in order not to tarnish her promising future with his ugly past. I have yet to see a movie that really portrays this central theme of Valjean enduring to the end with his conviction to be an honest man, with the ultimate test being separating himself from his daughter. Trying to make him romantically inclined towards the daughter he raised seems just weird and wrong to me anyway - must be a French thing.

DVD Review: THE BEST VERSION OF THE MASTERPIECE OF VICTOR HUGO
Summary: 5 Stars

I have seen this mini-serie on HBO, in my country, Brazil and I have LOVED it! I have readen Victor Hugo's Les Miserables several times and I have seen almost all the movie-screen versions of this romance and I can assure all that it is the best one! First, it follows the twists and turns of the book with almost meticulous details. Second, G?rard Depardieu is the PERFECT Jean Valjean, almost to the bones of his crooked nose and slightly hunched back (read his description in Victor Hugo's book!) Liam Neeson is too elegant and too handsome to fit this description!!! Third, as Les Miserables comes, longer is better, because there is so much to tell, so many nuances that the shorter versions do not show! And I would go on and on because that is one of my favorite books and this movie is my favorite version. A plus: John Malkovich as Inspector Javert is ousttanding and Christian Clavier as Th?nardier oh, that is a trio you will not easily forget. Another movie made by the three of them is NAPOLEON, with Christian Clavier as Napoleon, John Malkovich as Taillerand (chilling as a machiavellian politician !) and Depardieu as Fouch?, a minor role, but very important in the plot. If you REALLY want to see the very best version of LES MISERABLES see this movie. You will not regret the almost 7 hours of duration. To know the best of Victor Hugo go to the French versions! Hollywood may do great action movies but the classical...I prefer the French adaptations!(That is not a prejudice, but compare, if you will, the Hollywood version with Liam Neeson with this meticulous and very literary French version with G?rard Depardieu and you will agree with me.That is the same with the Count of Monte-Cristo, starred by the same G?rard Depardieu. Oh, well, if you can see a movie starred by G?rard Depardieu I garantee it will ALWAYS be a good one, because Mr. Depardieu is one of the finest actors of our times.

Description of Les Miserables (Original French Version) NO SUBTITLES

Original French Version) NO English Options --------------------- The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now released after serving nineteen years. At first he only encounter mistrust and closed doors; only the saintly Bishop Bienvenu treats him kindly and takes him in. The bishop's truly Christian compassion and humanity not only restores Jean Valjean's faith in the good, but also smoothes his way back to an orderly life. As Monsieur Madeleine, Valjean is soon a wealthy industrialist and popular citizen, even becoming the mayor of a small provincial town. His good fortune departs, however, when he meets Fantine, one of his workers, an unmarried mother who tragically dies of consumption. The well-intentioned Valjean frees Fantine's illegitimate daughter Cosette from the clutches of her insidious foster parents, and looks after her like a father. When Valjean reveals his true identity in order to prevent an innocent man who closely resembles him from being sold into a life of slavery as a result of a police error, he is convicted yet again. Valjean soon succeeds in escaping yet again, however, and manages to live under a false name in Paris for a few years. When Cosette, now a young lady, falls in love with the young attorney Marius Pontmercy, Valjean forbids the match - because he has fallen in love with the young girl himself... At this point, however, Marius finds out about Valjean's disreputable past and about Valjean's love for her and has no choice but to keep him away from Cosette. Valjean, thinking of his former benefactor Bishop Bienvenu, now makes the ultimate sacrifice - he decides to do without Cosette. A short while later Valjean falls seriously ill, but in the face of death he leaves a message of love to the young couple: "There is only one thing in the world that is important - and that is to love each other."

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