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A Game for the Living: A Virago Modern Classic

Patricia Highsmith

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'Ramon had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramon, his Catholic soul trapped in his passion for...

In Real Life

Cory Doctorow

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Anda loves Coarsegold Online. The massively-multiplayer role playing game is a place where she can...

Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development: Economic and Political Theory

Johan Swinnen, Thijs Vandemoortele, Anneleen Vandeplas and Koen Deconinck

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Over the past decades, the world has witnessed an unprecedented growth in global value chains,...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Les Misérables (2019) in Movies

Sep 10, 2020

Les Misérables (2019)

2019 | Crime, Drama

7.2

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Gritty French social thriller (if that's a thing) hits its targets. A policeman newly assigned to a special unit in Paris finds his first day at work turning into a nightmare as tensions rise between different groups and his superior turns out to be an undisciplined loose cannon.

Bleak but compelling: this film was made in 2018 and 2019, but its concern with race, poverty, police brutality and the abuse of power means it feels very timely. Gripping plot and strong performances result in a film which is frequently tense even if it's seldom reassuring. The climax is as strong a condemnation of the failure of the young by wider social structures as I can remember seeing. A powerful and serious film, but also a very satisfying piece of entertainment.