Never mind the spontaneous applause, audiences for the box-office smash are openly weeping. But what would our reporter make of her encounter with such a harrowing film?
At a mid-morning showing of Les Misérables, I'm trying to work out just what it is that has been making people so upset. Not upset in a bad way, necessarily. Since being released last Friday, the film has broken box-office records, making £8.1m in the UK in its opening weekend – compared with Mamma Mia's previous record, for a musical, of £6.62m. But along with reports of spontaneous applause, there have also been tales of sobbing and wailing, of audiences brought low, then tipped right into despair. A video has been circulating of a Long Island family, showing the middle-aged parents crying uncontrollably on the way home from the film. "I hear the first note, I start to cry," says the father, George, before...
At a mid-morning showing of Les Misérables, I'm trying to work out just what it is that has been making people so upset. Not upset in a bad way, necessarily. Since being released last Friday, the film has broken box-office records, making £8.1m in the UK in its opening weekend – compared with Mamma Mia's previous record, for a musical, of £6.62m. But along with reports of spontaneous applause, there have also been tales of sobbing and wailing, of audiences brought low, then tipped right into despair. A video has been circulating of a Long Island family, showing the middle-aged parents crying uncontrollably on the way home from the film. "I hear the first note, I start to cry," says the father, George, before...
- 1/16/2013
- by Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
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