Neil Brand

The Barbican welcomes pianist Neil Brand, one of the world’s leading accompanists of silent film, for what will without doubt become one of the landmark events of the 2017 UK film year.

Neil will accompany Henri Fescourt’s seven hour adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Never before screened in the UK, and known until now only in a black and white version, it will be presented in a new restoration with all the riches of the various colour techniques employed by Fescourt in 1925 (tinting, toning, and mordanting).