The sewers in the Hooper version…let’s jus say they’re a bit more true to the sewers in the book.) I’m not familiar with director Bille August’s work, but I see that he also directed The House and the Spirits - a movie that I remember thinking (at 18) was a dull waste of a great cast.
(The sewers in this version must have been the cleanest in Europe. It’s as visually appealing as the Tom Hooper-directed 2012 musical ( my review) – more so, when you factor in how gritty the 2012 version gets. It’s beautifully shot, some of it on location in Paris. Not that it’s hugely different, but there are some fairly major changes. I’m a lot more mellow about adaptation changes these days, except when they completely miss the point. On the other, I might have been more caught up in “Augh! It’s different!” objections when I was younger. On one hand, I wish I had seen it at the time. Whatever the reason, I never got around to watching it until now. It may have simply been a matter of “it’s not the musical” (or possibly “Éponine isn’t in it”). I don’t remember why I never got around to watching the 1998 Les Misérables movie before – I was heavily into the musical at the time it was released (even subscribing to a fan newsletter and running my own fan website), and I was certainly aware of the film.
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