It won't change
the face of cinema history, and it won't win any awards (it's too downright dirty for that), but it's furiously entertaining, and a very strong piece of drama from a director who hasn't much luck in the last thirty - odd years.
FLIX ® is a celebration
of all things
cinema, from knee - slapping comedy to
face - slapping film noir, get ready to experience the
history of Hollywood, one classic at a time.
Half an hour into Tom Hooper's adaptation
of the long - running stage musical Les Miserables, he fixes his camera on Anne Hathaway's tortured, tear - streaked
face, and she delivers what ought to become one
of the great moments in musical
cinema history — right up there with Dorothy singing wistfully
of a land far away, Gene Kelly swinging happily around damp lamp poles, and a problem like Maria singing to the grassy Austrian hillsides.