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Les Miserables " review

by Peter Bradshaw

Tom Hooper's film is a colossal effort " after 158 minutes, you really have experienced something. It's just not clear whatLike a diabolically potent combination of Lionel Bart and Leni Riefenstahl, the movie version of Les Misérables has arrived, based on the hit stage show adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel set among the deserving poor in 19th-century France, which climaxes with the anti-monarchist Paris uprising o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01am on January 10, 2013