French filmmaker
Ladj Ly
Born (1980-03-19 ) 19 March 1980 (age 44) Nationality
French Occupation Film director
Screenwriter Notable work
Les Misérables
Ladj Ly (French pronunciation:
[ladʒ li] ; born 19 March 1980 in Paris) is a French film director and screenwriter. He won a Jury Prize in
Cannes Film Festival for
Les Misérables in 2019. The film was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Film .
[1]
Biography
Ly's parents are from
Mali and he grew up in
Montfermeil , a district of Bosquets. He started making films with his friends
Kim Chapiron ,
Romain Gavras , and
JR , in the collective
Kourtrajmé .
[2]
He directed his first films, notably for
Oxmo Puccino , and his first documentaries,
365 jours à Clichy-Montfermeil [
fr ] (365 days in Clichy-Montfermeil ), filmed after the
2005 French riots ; Go Fast Connexion ; and 365 jours au Mali (365 days in Mali ).
In 2011, Ly was given a three-year prison sentence for
kidnapping and
false imprisonment .
[3]
[4] In 2012, the sentence was reduced on appeal to two years imprisonment, and one year suspended sentence.
[5]
Les Misérables is the first non-documentary film he directed.
[6] The film received many awards, notably at the
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and a nomination for the
César Award for Best Short Film in 2018. In the same year, he was nominated for the
César Award for Best Documentary Film for
À voix haute : La Force de la parole [
fr ] with
Stéphane de Freitas [
fr ] .
[7]
[8]
[9]
In 2018 in Montfermeil, Ly created a free
film school , called "L'école Kourtrajmé".
[10]
With co-writers
Alexis Manenti and Giordano Gederlini, he won the
Lumières Award for Best Screenplay ,
[11] and was nominated for the
César Award for Best Original Screenplay
[12] and the
European Film Award for Best Screenwriter ,
[13] for the 2019 feature film version of Les Misérables .
His second feature film,
Les Indésirables , is slated to premiere at the
2023 Toronto International Film Festival .
[14]
References
^
"Les Miserables review" . The New York Times. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020 .
^ Sterlé, Carole (19 April 2019).
"Montfermeil : Ladj Ly dans la cour des grands, à Cannes !" . leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^
"Amad Ly, ex 'porte-parole' des quartiers, condamné à 5 ans de prison" (in French).
Agence France-Presse . 2 March 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2020 – via paris.maville.com.
^ Korda, Robin (19 December 2019).
"Ladj Ly, réalisateur des "Misérables", condamné à la prison : trois questions sur la polémique" . leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2020 .
^ Mathiot, Cédric; Leboucq, Fabien (18 December 2019).
"Ladj Ly a-t-il fait de la prison pour tentative de meurtre, comme l'écrivent "Causeur" et "Valeurs actuelles" ?" . Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 21 August 2020 .
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"Interview with Ladj Ly" . Indiewire. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020 .
^ Kaganski, Serge (7 April 2017).
"À voix haute. La force de la parole" . Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^ Sterlé, Carole (17 February 2017).
"Montfermeil : « Les Misérables de Ladj Ly, primé à Clermont-Ferrand" . Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^
"Ladj Ly porte la voix des banlieues aux César" . francetvinfo.fr (in French). 1 March 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^ Sterlé, Carole (25 September 2018).
"Clichy - Montfermeil : le cinéaste Ladj Ly forme la relève" . Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^ Scott Roxborough,
"France’s Lumiere Awards: ‘Les Misérables’ Wins Best Film, Roman Polanski Tapped as Best Director" .
The Hollywood Reporter , 27 January 2020.
^ Melanie Goodfellow,
"César awards: ‘Les Miserables’ wins best film, Polanski takes best director" .
Screen Daily , 28 February 2020.
^ Nancy Tartaglione,
"European Film Awards Nominations: Polanski’s ‘An Officer And A Spy’, Almodovar’s ‘Pain And Glory’, Bellocchio’s ‘Traitor’ Lead" .
Deadline Hollywood , 9 November 2019.
^ Michael Rosser,
"Ladj Ly’s ‘Les Indésirables’ to world premiere at Toronto 2023" .
Screen Daily , 5 July 2023.
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