Notre-Dame on Fire

Notre-Dame on Fire
French theatrical release poster
FrenchNotre-Dame brûle
Directed byJean-Jacques Annaud
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Jérôme Seydoux
  • Ardavan Safaee
Starring
CinematographyJean-Marie Dreujou
Edited byReynald Bertrand
Music bySimon Franglen
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 16 March 2022 (2022-03-16) (France)
  • 28 March 2022 (2022-03-28) (Italy)
Running time
110 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Italy
LanguageFrench
Budget30,000,000 €[1]
Box office$5.9 million

Notre-Dame on Fire (French: Notre-Dame brûle) is a 2022 disaster film based on the Notre-Dame de Paris fire that occurred on 15 April 2019.[2] The film is directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud from a script written by Annaud and Thomas Bidegain. Produced by Pathé Films and TF1 Films Production, it is an international co-production with Italian company Wildside.

Notre-Dame on Fire was released in France on 16 March 2022, by Pathé Distribution in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, and standard formats. In Italy, it was released on 28 March 2022, by Vision Distribution.

Synopsis

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On 15 April 2019, a violent fire broke out in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Men and women will do everything to save the building and the religious and art treasures stored within.

Cast

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Production

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Bourges Cathedral used as a set for the film.

In April 2020, Jean-Jacques Annaud announced that he wanted to make a film about the fire.[6] He explained this choice later: "Obviously, I immediately felt the extraordinary cinematographic merits. Beyond the disaster and the grief, of course, there is precisely the emotion and the spectacle of the fire".[7] The filmmaker had first thought of making a documentary.[8]

Filming began in March 2021 in Bourges.[8] Bourges Cathedral was used for its resemblance to Notre-Dame.[9] The team then began to shoot in the studio at the Cité du Cinéma.[7] A sequence was then shot in mid-April in Versailles, in the Versailles-Château-Rive-Gauche12 station. Sequences were also shot in Amiens Cathedral, whose spire and certain parts of the building are similar to those of Notre-Dame.[10]

The scenes recounting the start of the fire were set in the 13th-century framework of Saint-Étienne cathedral in Sens. In this place, shots were also taken on the forecourt, on the stairs of the towers, and in the nave.[11]

To complete his film, director Annaud called for the recovery of archive footage from the day of the fire:

"I still need the traffic jams that were created by this event, the people singing in the night to cheer on the firefighters who saved the cathedral. I also need testimonies from foreign countries (…) to discuss the planetary event. If you have these images, we would be happy to take advantage of them and put them in the film."[9]

Release

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In February 2022, it was announced that the film would be released in France on March 16, 2022 by Pathé, three years after the fire.[12] It was then released in Italy on March 28, 2022 by Vision Distribution. It also was released on July 22, 2022 in the United Kingdom by Pathé's British distributor, Warner Bros. Pictures.

Reception

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Box office

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On the day of its release in French cinemas, the feature film took 2nd position at the box office ranking of new releases, garnering 41,089 admissions, including 4,771 in preview for 752 copies. In today's releases, it is preceded by the animated film Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and followed by the comedy film Alors on Danse (21,997).[13] The film took 2nd place at the French box office after its first week of release, garnering 388,293 admissions. The film made up part of the top 3 at the box office in the run-up to Printemps du Cinéma 2022.[14] The following week, the film dropped to the 5th place in the French box office with its 108,099 admissions, behind the dramatic comedy film The Kitchen Brigade (119,405) and ahead of the anime Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (78,827).[15] The film maintained this position the following week with an additional 134,038 admissions.[16]

Critical reception

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 16 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10.[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[18]

Accolades

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Date Award Category Result Notes
2023 36th Golden Rooster Awards Best Foreign Language Film Won [19]

References

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  5. ^ "Oumar Diolo - Acteur". oumar-diolo (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
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  10. ^ "Jean-Jacques Annaud en tournage dans la cathédrale d'Amiens pour son film sur l'incendie de Notre-Dame". Franceinfo (in French). 2021-05-29. Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  11. ^ "Jean-Jacques Annaud, le cinéaste qui joue avec le feu, en tournage à la cathédrale de Sens". www.lyonne.fr (in French). 2021-03-21. Archived from the original on 2022-03-12. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  12. ^ "Notre-Dame brûle : une date de sortie symbolique pour le film de Jean-Jacques Annaud". Allociné. 2021-04-28. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  13. ^ Brigitte Baronnet (March 17, 2022). "Box-office: Jujutsu Kaisen 0 starts stronger than Demon Slayer". Allociné. Archived from the original on April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  14. ^ Brigitte Baronnet (March 23, 2022). "Box-office France: The Batman crosses 2 million admissions and surpasses Uncharted at the top of 2022". Allociné. Archived from the original on April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  15. ^ Vincent Formica (March 30, 2022). "Box-office France: The Batman still in the lead but threatened by the Michael Bay Ambulance". Allociné. Archived from the original on April 29, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  16. ^ Brigitte Baronnet (April 6, 2022). "Box-office France: Sonic 2 stronger than Sonic 1?". Allociné. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
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  18. ^ "Notre-Dame on Fire". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  19. ^ Xu Fan, Hu Meidong (5 November 2023). "36th China Golden Rooster Awards winners announced". China Daily. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
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