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.
By most definitions, Jaws is more a suspense thriller than a horror film, but it gave us one of the most heart - stopping, breath - holding, unnerving
musical ideas in the
history of
cinema.