Les Miserables Page #4

Synopsis: Henri Fortin is poor and iliterate former boxer. Ziman is rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. During WWII they meet when Fortin agrees to drive Ziman's family to Switzerland. Intrigued by Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables", Fortin asks the Zimans to read that book to him during the travel. Before the end of movie every main character would see his character in situations similar to those in Hugo's novel.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Claude Lelouch
Production: Warner Home Video
  Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1995
175 min
271 Views


"It's your soul that I'm buying"

Good priest. - He's a bishop.

To boot!

Looks like a checkpoint.

Are you sure? - Sure looks like one.

Cut through the field, we'll meet further down.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir. - Goodbye, sir.

We'll continue later.

What's the house like? - Ready to move in to.

Many people people can't read?

More people than you think. But that doesn't stop them being nice.

Can the gentleman still go to school?

After the war we'll teach him. You'll study together.

After the war. I'll take us sports. I'm winded.

Thank you.

Thank you, I owe you more than Jean Valjean owed the bishop.

What happened next? - Where are we up to?

He just got the candle sticks.

Then comes the chimney sweep. - Come on get it.

It was a real checkpoint. - We fooled them.

Who's the chimney sweep? -I'll tell you later.

I like this truck.

Excuse me - My coin sir.

What coin? - Under your foot.

Buzz off. - My coin.

Buzz off!

Buzz off!

Hey, little chimney sweep!

Chimney Sweep!

Your coin!

Your coin!

Please forgive me!

Little chimney sweep.

See that furniture?

Doesn't go with the house.

Goes too well you mean?

I'm almost certain they are Jews.

Easy to find out.

There, that's the last piece.

We're done Mr. Ziman.

Here sir. I made you a sandwich.

Very kind of you. So what happened after the chimney sweep?

I told you. After that he became obsessed with good deeds.

He sold the silverware.

Not the candlesticks - Your right.

What that?

A hairpin.

Read it!

"The Germans are here to arrest the Jews. Signed... A caring friend.

Come on! We have to leave.

- The furniture!

Drop us off at the station.

What's going on? - Just drop us off at the station.

You can't just leave the furniture. - Please, to the closest station.

Hello, is this the police?

I want to report a moving truck.

It has "Henri Fortin, boxing champion" written on it.

It's transporting Jews.

If I pay you 10,000 francs , would you drive us to the border?

I've got a contract, I'll pay your men to return via train.

We're moving all week long. - 20,000?

I'd move a circus for that price. But I have my commitments.

On the road, I'd have time to read "The Miserables"

It's just beginning to get good with Gavroche...

Cosette, Javert, Marius, Fantine and Th?nardiers...

Who? Th?nardiers.

Who's that? - It's you, me and everyone, when they get angry we become Th?nardiers.

Over here Ma'am.

Do you know anyone who could keep my girl for awhile? I've got a job in town.

That's a cute little girl. What's here name?

Cosette ma'am. - What a lovely little name.

Do you have any? - My two little angels.

They are yours? - Me and my husbands.

They are lovely. Could you take care of her?

How old was Cosette?

When Mrs. Fantine left her: 3.

When Madeleine feed her: 7 or 8

Same as when I arrived at the Guillaumes.

This is really my story.

The history of the world is only 2 or 3 stories repeating themselves.

Yes, but I'm both Cosette and Jean Valjean... It's powerful.

Wait. You lost me.

When you talk about Fantine, I think of my mother.

The Th?nardiers are just like the Guillaumes.

So, Cosette, has to be me.

But as long as your not Javert.

Your only sure there is 2 or 3 stories?

How may times have the Jew had to hit the road?

And then? - Things got much worse for Fantine.

She had to sell her hair, teeth and even her own body.

She died of sorrow. - Incredible.

So how old where you?

8 or 8 years old.

Like Cosette.

The boys want to go home. They've being away for two years.

In Belgium, in Waterloo..It wasn't called that yet.

So the emperor...

I don't like this. What are you doing behind me?

I don't like having people stand behind me.

Since Waterloo I've hated it.

We had English in front and from behind.

English in front and from behind.

They were everywhere. And English people are not nice people.

They're cruel.

Get water. Take the bucket and get some water.

"suddenly the bucket seemed very light....

...an enormous hand was grabbing it and lifting it up.

She looked up. A tall figure was walking beside her in the darkness.

With her keen instincts...

...The child felt no fear...

let me carry this little girl...

Come on.

How old are you? - Eight sir.

Where are your folks? - I don't know, sir.

You name? - Cosette, sir.

Where do you live? - At the Th?nardiers.

Anyone home?

What's up? - I need gas.

We open at 6.

Tell him well pay him. - Well pay you well.

What's well?

What's well? - Anything he wants.

What's well? -10,000 francs

You asked for it. - Say it's okey.

Okey then. He's a Th?nardier.

You seem to be a generous man. To do good one must be generous.

10 gold coins - You hear that ma'am.

He's offering 20 gold coins for all our suffering.

Selling our daughter for 30 coins would be a sin.

50 gold coins and she leaves now.

If you offer 50 gold coin so easily you can manage 100.

Ma'am kindly pack her belongings.

Here's an order which authorises me to take her now.

Who will vouch for it? - Me

Who are you?

Mr. Madeline. Mayor of Montreal.

Fetch her stuff or I'll have you arrested.

Don't take it like that. We agree, don't we?

Of course we do.

"Cosette didn't know where she was heading, or with who...

All that she understood is that she was leaving the Th?nardiers

Nobody though of saying goodbye...

nor had she though of saying goodbye to anyone.

She was leaving...

leaving

... leaving the house in which she hated for years.

In her heart, she felt something.

something as if she where getting closer to god.

sign:
"Boarding school for girls"

and then?

And then he took her to a convent.

What is your name? - Salome Fortin

What grade?

I'm in 5th grade at Mozart high.

Mozart.

Your old enough for communion.

Yes, ma'am.

About you sir? Are you religious?

am I? Religious?

Yes, ma'am. I go to church every week. I take the girl too.

Yes, I am a believer. I real am.

If I weren't a believer I wouldn't have come here.

Has she studied catechism? - Yes!

Well.. she started, right?

She's shy. She's normally more talkative.

Tell the mother you studied catechism.

I studied catechism. - See.

Your not worried that she's starting midterm?

No... So long as she starts I think it will be good for her.

Will you be able to see your daughter often?

Oh yes, when ever I can.

You brought her up on her own?

Yes, Like a boy.

So I wasn't you to make a girl out of her.

Right Salome? You'd like that?

We'll make her into a girl.

Why are you doing this?

What's the use in crying now?

Why all the screaming?

We are helping our child...

...by destroying each other...

He's a good man. It's a good school.

Salome will be saved.

Your a pain in the neck. Your always afraid..

Now I'm the one who's afraid. Cute!

Your a coward...

You see me in the resistance?

No way! No way!

If I join the resistance it'll all be over.

They'll be arrested within 5 minutes.

You coward. Your scared shitless.

I'm not a coward, I'm a Jew. It's obvious.

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Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ( listen); 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the musicals Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment. Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism; his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon in Paris. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French currency. more…

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