{"id":606638,"date":"2024-01-29T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-ladj-lys-fiery-followup-to-les-miserables\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:30:00","slug":"watch-ladj-lys-fiery-followup-to-les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ladj-lys-fiery-followup-to-les-miserables\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ladj Ly&#8217;s Fiery Followup to &#8216;Les Mis\u00e9rables&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3f1898544\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3f1898544\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ladj-lys-fiery-followup-to-les-miserables\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Ladj_Lys_Fiery_Followup_to_%E2%80%98Les_Miserables%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Ladj Ly&#8217;s Fiery Followup to &#8216;Les Mis\u00e9rables&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ladj-lys-fiery-followup-to-les-miserables\/#%E2%80%9CLadj_Lys_Fiery_Followup_to_%E2%80%98Les_Miserables%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Ladj Ly&#8217;s Fiery Followup to &#8216;Les Mis\u00e9rables&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;Watch Online Ladj Ly&#8217;s Fiery Followup to &#8216;Les Mis\u00e9rables'&#8221;<\/h1>\n<h2>&#8220;Ladj Ly&#8217;s Fiery Followup to &#8216;Les Mis\u00e9rables'&#8221;<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Near the end of the political drama \u201cLes Ind\u00e9sirables,\u201d a precisely angled wide shot of a run-down apartment complex depicts the immigrant families that have inhabited it for many years throwing their most precious belongings over their balconies in a last-ditch effort to save them. Scores of virulent riot police have shown up to evict them without prior notice. Amid such extreme circumstances, it\u2019s the unconditional solidarity between all of those surviving in this constantly dehumanized Parisian neighborhood that defines the chaotic scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s the rare instance when French director Ladj Ly allows the images to speak for themselves, rather than having one of his many characters instructively proclaim why we must care, in the second feature from the Oscar-nominated director of \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables.\u201d Another impassioned statement against <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> and racial inequality, \u201cLes Ind\u00e9sirables\u201d feels no less urgent, and yet, the film stumbled at the French box office and has failed to attract much attention abroad. As Ly depicts hundreds of individual lives being lumped together in the shared tragedy of perpetual displacement, the magnitude of the cruelty at play astounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The project continues the activist messaging of \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables\u201d and artistic collaborator Romain Gavras\u2019 \u201cAthena\u201d (which Ly co-wrote), both of which dealt with how disenfranchised communities react to incessant police brutality with a matching fury. \u201cLes Ind\u00e9sirables\u201d takes a similar premise, centering marginalized, mostly immigrant people (and their French-born children) facing constant institutional violence to unfurl the inner workings of how those systems of oppression are set in place through an ouroboros of white bureaucracy. Here, their access to housing is at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But for all the propulsive cinematic energy packed into this trio of social justice-driven ensemble pieces, they all suffer from contrived screenplays that forcefully engineer powder-keg situations to bluntly over-explain their unquestionably imperative <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s. Emotionally heavy-handed throughout, the writing in \u201cLes Ind\u00e9sirables\u201d propels its righteous discourse to the foreground with zero intent to leave space for subtext.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    On the people\u2019s side, there are conflicting approaches regarding how to effectively fight back. There\u2019s Haby (Anta Diaw), an involved local young woman confident that her work helping families find homes and engaging them politically will yield results. Diaw\u2019s often catatonic expression communicates both rage and resolute purposefulness. Her close friend Blaz (Aristote Luyindula) scoffs at peaceful protests. The humiliating over-policing this low-income area is subjected to has led him to hold an understandably defeatist attitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    To their credit, Ly and his co-writer Giordano Gederlini, don\u2019t oversimplify the solution to the housing issue. The government intends to demolish the buildings in disrepair and start from the ground up, but their plans to relocate the residents don\u2019t consider their specific needs (such as the size of each family) and aims for a blanket gentrifying fix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Pierre (Alexis Manenti), a white pediatrician newly appointed interim major of this suburb, quickly realizes the impossibility of appeasing every concern, of fulfilling every demand while working within a system designed to delay and move the needle at a glacial pace, less with the wellbeing of the majority in mind than the goal of preserving a sense of \u201corder.\u201d When Haby tries to defy his power and run for mayor, Pierre weaponizes the institutions. That Pierre invites Christian Syrian refugee Tania (Judy Al Rashi) and her father to have Christmas dinner with his family makes evident (maybe too overtly) the selective treatment of those perceived as foreigners, depending on race and religion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The most fascinating character in \u201cLes Ind\u00e9sirables,\u201d however, is Roger (Steve Tientcheu), the Black deputy major and Pierre\u2019s second in command. The son of African immigrants who grew up in these parts, he has now taken on the conservative ideology that people shouldn\u2019t rely on \u201chandouts.\u201d Roger exists at the intersection between the Haves and the Have Nots, but chooses to align with whiteness to preserve his position of power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Though scarce, there are other moments where Ly succeeds at visual storytelling. In the opening scene, a coffin holding the body of a deceased Muslim woman has to be strenuously carried from a high-up unit in this apartment complex down several flights of dark stairs by her male neighbors. There\u2019s no elevator and only partial electricity. Ly lets the entire sequence play out practically in real time, encapsulating how even at their most vulnerable, these families are denied a modicum of dignity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The ordeal calls to mind the final scenes in \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables,\u2019 which maximize tensions based on the claustrophobia of tight spaces in crowded structures. Both are the work of cinematographer Julien Poupard. Less intellectually effective is Ly\u2019s use of montages to illustrate parallels between Haby and Pierre, because they create a false equivalency between their plights. There\u2019s also the conspicuous inclusion of fire as symbol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The final minutes, when a wrathful Blaz decides to take matters into his own hands, lean even further into the on-the-nose notion of fighting fire with fire and the perils of \u201can eye for an eye\u201d-style justice making for a conclusion unconcerned with the many loose ends it ignores. Ly\u2019s projects belong to the same group of French films focused on the unseen segments of society (<em>cin\u00e9ma de banlieue<\/em>) as Mathieu Kassovitz\u2019s now seminal \u201cLa Haine,\u201d but their lack of narrative finesse exposes them up to unfavorable comparisons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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