Mes Rêves #4

#4: See Les Miserables at a French Cinema ✓ 

This is everything I knew about Les Mis prior to seeing the movie.

a) Les Mis is not a Spanish play. I first heard about Les Mis from my sister after she saw the play. She loved the play and she also loved Spanish, so naturally I assumed the play was about something Spanish. It was only about a year ago that I learned it is set in France.

b) It also has something to do with the French revolution.

c) Which apparently has something to do with bread.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't care all that much about Les Mis being made into a movie. I only put it as one of my study abroad goals because I wanted to see a movie in a French cinema and it seemed fitting since it is set in France.

At the time I also didn't know the movie is three hours long, otherwise I probably would have rethought my decision.

However, after watching the movie I feel like I've wasted so much of my time not caring about Les Mis. I was pulled in from the very first scene when the music just comes out full force. Anne Hathaway was amazing. When she sang I Dreamed a Dream I got chills and could feel her character's pain. And then at the end when they do the reprise I wanted to be able to join the characters and sing along with them because I felt like a part of the movie.

In fact, the entire metro ride home I had to keep telling myself that it would not be appropriate to break out into song, no matter how much I wanted to.

And maybe it's partially because I'm here in France so the story of the French revolution feels so much more real, but I thought the movie was spectacular.