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Les Misérables Provokes Mixed Emotions in a Catholic Viewer

by Anita Crane

by Anita Crane on Dec 27, 2012 in Featured, On Movies

Thanks to a friend and diehard Les Miserables fan, I saw the movie musical but have mixed emotions about it. Hugh Jackman is a fine Jean Valjean, but the Victor Hugo story is highly misleading on the French Revolutionaries; the musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, is mostly mediocre; [...]