Producer Cameron Mackintosh was so taken with the 40-foot polystyrene pachyderm, he supposedly rescued it from the skip at the end of the shoot and moved it to the grounds of his house in the west of England. The crypt itself has also been used in a number of films, including 2008’s The Oxford Murders, with Elijah Wood and John Hurt, and 2008 sci-fi Franklyn, with Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green. Expanded from Ly’s César-nominated 2018 short, it’s an exciting, extended cops versus youths showdown that at once feels location-specific but could also take place in any major city in the world. Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway star in the critically acclaimed adaptation of the epic musical phenomenon that is a timeless testament to the human spirit. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Freed on strict parole, Valjean treks to freedom through the mountains and, for a few moments we really are in France. Despite being set in France, Les Misérables was shot almost entirely in England, with locations ranging from Bath in Somerset to Kettering in Northamptonshire.. Tom Hooper, director of The King’s Speech, successfully gets his cast to belt their lungs out in front of the cameras, avoiding the standard convention of miming to a pre-recorded track.. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2019. The only character who really pinned the role was Ann Hatherway although I Dreamed a Dreamed was a film version which could not have been done on stage. The same hall recently passed for ‘Paris’ again in The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd’s film about Margaret Thatcher, with Meryl Streep as the controversial Prime Minister. The scenery and the sets were first class. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Les Miserables - The Movie (3,698) IMDb 7.6 2h 37min 2013 X-Ray. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. The film was very dark with little to make it positive. The seafront, where the prostitutes ply their trade and Fantine (Anne Hathaway) is obliged to sell her hair, her back teeth and her virtue, is a set built at Pinewood Studios. Sign in to see videos available to you. The real thing lasted only 33 years (the intended bronze version never got built), and its spot in the Place de la Bastille is now occupied by the Colonne de Juillet (July Column). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2019. Les Misérables shares equal amounts of DNA with La Haine, Assault On Precinct 13, Do The Right Thing, Spiral and any number of US police dramas. Embittered by twenty years' hard labour for stealing bread, parole-breaker Jean Valjean is transformed by a bishop's kindness, resolving from now on to make something of his life. Flights: Heathrow Airport; Gatwick Airport, Visit: the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 9NN (tel: 020.8269.4747), Visit: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Victory Gate, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LJ (tel: 023.9283.9766), Visit: Winchester College, 73 Kingsgate Street, Winchester S023 9PE (tel: 019.6262.1209), Visit: Chatham Historic Dockyard, Church Lane, Chatham ME4 4TE (tel: 01634.823800), Visit: Boughton House, Geddington, Kettering NN14 1BJ (tel: 01536.515731), Visit: Bath (rail: Bath Spa, from London Paddington), Please send any corrections or additions to info@movie-locations.com. See the release date and trailer. It is a powerful movie that is not afraid of looking ugly, and therein lies what makes it unique. Select the department you want to search in. Working with less scrupulous partners Chris (Alexis Manenti) and Gwada (Djebril Zonga), the trio preside over a delicate status quo that soon escalates to boiling point. The opening scene, as Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) and the convicts haul a ship into dock under the watchful eye of Javert (Russell Crowe), was filmed in No.9 Dock at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth, in Hampshire. Valjean’s factory was created in the dockyard’s Tarring Yarn House, and the confrontation between Valjean and Javert – where he almost recognises his old nemesis – was filmed in the cockloft of the ropery. Les Misérables is a deeply powerful film that's rich with raw feeling, the grittiness of life in 19th-century France, and the conflict between right, wrong, and the concept of redemption. A powerful fiction debut from documentarian Ladj Ly. In a plea for better support for performing arts workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, the casts of three major West End productions – The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables: The Staged Concert and Mary Poppins – appeared in the final of Britain’s Got Talent on ITV, on Saturday 10 October.. The rugged landscape through which he makes his way is around Gourdon, in the Alpes-Maritimes, about five miles northeast of Grasse, in the south of France. Chatham has previously been seen as the ‘London docks’ and ‘Pentonville Prison’ in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, as 'Hiroshima' in Mr Holmes with Ian McKellen as the ageing sleuth, as the laundry in Suffragette and even as the port of ‘Giza’ in the 1999 version of The Mummy. As the revolutionaries prepare their rebellion at the funeral of Jean Lamarque, Javert readies his men in the College’s famous Painted Hall. Quickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked. After a patient build-up, Les Misérables becomes a Molotov cocktail of a movie, tense, explosive and urgent. The two are on collision course. It is the most incendiary crime film to emerge from French cinema since Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine. 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