Les Miserables Ladj Ly Oscar nomination in the category "best foreign film" - The film "Les Misérables" by Ladj Ly, a director from Seine-Saint-Denis, was nominated this Monday for the next Oscar ceremony in the United States in the "best foreign film" category.

The great story continues for Ladj Ly. The film Les Misérables by the director from Montfermeil in Seine-Saint-Denis is nominated in the category "best foreign film" at the next Oscars in the United States. The ceremony will take place on February 9 in Los Angeles.

After winning the Jury Prize at the last Cannes Festival and being nominated for the Golden Globes, Les Misérables, a film shot largely in Clichy-sous-Bois and in Montfermeil, the city where Ladj Ly is from, is also retained in this category of the best foreign film at the Oscars.

Les Miserables Ladj Ly Oscar nomination

In front of him, the French director will have heavyweights of international cinema like the Spanish Pedro Almodovar for his film Pain and Glory and especially the South Korean Bong Joon-oh with Parasite which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, l last year, as well as the Golden Globe for best foreign film, a few days ago in Los Angeles. Also named, Honeyland for North Macedonia and La Communion, Polish feature film.

The director had presented his film last November in preview in Clichy-sous-Bois in the presence of young actors from the city and Montfermeil, the neighboring town.
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TRENDING: A Tarzan with Johnny Weissmuller broadcast this Monday evening on ARTE.

The reruns of the legendary Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller have become very rare in the clear. Opportunity to discover or review one of these works this Monday, January 13.

As part of a special evening, ARTE offers Tarzan Finds a Son at 8:55 p.m. The film will be followed at 10:15 p.m. by the replay of a documentary telling the true story of Johnny Weissmuller, or how a Romanian swimming champion became a world sex symbol thanks to the character of Tarzan.

Tarzan finds a son dates from 1939 and was directed by Richard Thorpe. Black and white of course. With Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan), Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane), Johnny Sheffield (Boy), Ian Hunter (Austin Lancing), Henry Stephenson (sir Thomas Lancing), Frieda Inescort (Mrs. Lancing), Henry Wilcoxon (Mr. Sande ).

A baby, the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle, is adopted by Tarzan and Jane, who name him Boy. The mischievous child is growing up. But five years later, relatives of the victims organized an expedition to find the wreckage and possible survivors. Discovering the existence of Boy, they want to recover it, but one of them especially seeks to deprive the child of the inheritance which falls to him. While Tarzan refuses to deliver the boy to his family, Jane worries about his future.