Ladj Ly and Djebril Zonga, the writer-director and co-star, respectively, of the Oscar-nominated Les Misérables, arrived for the Awardsline screening of the film on a very good day: France’s …
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, arrived for the Awardsline screening of the film on a very good day: France’s official Oscar selection had just received 11 Cesar Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor and two Best Newcomer/Male nods .is Ly’s first non-documentary feature, is no musical, no adaptation of the classic Victor Hugo novel.
Ly knows the neighborhood well, having grown up there and remaining a resident . His largely autobiographical film, Ly told Deadline last night following the screening, consists almost entirely of events he actually witnessed, from the theft of a lion cub that ignites the neighborhood’s simmering tinderbox, to the extended, harrowing final scene of violence, retribution and uncontained rage.
“Everything you saw is inspired by real facts,” Ly says about the film inspired by the 2005 riots in the suburbs of Paris, “and this is my first film of fiction but it is a testimony to everything I have experienced over last 20 or 30 years as I’ve grown up in that neighborhood. So everything you see are experiences that I have lived firsthand.
In the video above, Ly also talks about President Emmanuel Macron’s reaction to the film, which character in the film most represents his own younger self and Kourtrajmé, the artists collective he co-founded, and the free film and arts school it created to give youths such as those depicted inand keep your inbox happy.
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