More than 150 years after Victor Hugo's classic novel, a French film titled "Les Miserables" gives a gritty, modern view of the Paris suburbs where Jean Valjean first met Cosette. Ladj Ly's "Les Miserables", which premiered Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, contains no singing or romance, but rather a tough, "The Wire"-like street-level portrait of the Parisian banlieue of Montfermeil. It's the same neighborhood where the 37-year-old Ly grew up and still lives. Ly says he made his movie as "an alarm bell" for the plight of kids growing up in neighborhoods like Montfermeil. "For the past 20 years, we've said things are not going well. We have the impression no one's list...
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