Samuel Labarthe

Jean-Paul Bordes

Mickaël Chirinian

Jérémie Laheurte

Maximilien Seweryn

Garlan Le Martelot

Dimitri Storoge

Pierre Lottin

Jules Sadoughi

Chloé Jouannet

Vassili Schneider

Ava Baya

Nathan Gruffy

Sébastien Lalanne

Oumar Diolo

Antonythasan Jesuthasan

Élodie Navarre

Chloé Chevallier

Loic Djani

Kevin Garnichat

Daniel Horn

Tony Le Bacq

Romain Ogerau

Billel Sakhri

Julien Desjardins

Anne Hidalgo

Fabien Houssaye

Tyneille Louise

Satya Dusaugey

Xavier Maly

Benoît Tachoires

Bernard Gabay

Pascal Rénéric

Pierre-Marc Levergeois

Gerardo Maffei

Adrien Schmück

Reshny Massaka

Ludivine de Chastenet

Gauthier Battoue

Joël Demarty

Johann Vexo

Alain Cauchi

Carole Gaessler

Anne-Sophie Lapix

Gilles Bouleau

Olalla Escribano

Shuengit Chow

Nathalie Portal

Anya Andrianova

Rainer Sievert

Sophie Chen

Régis Chaussard

Yukiko Nagashima

Andras Vigh

Simon Valentin

Alice Muneaux

Florian Collet

Florent Lemoine

Geneviève Pier Boivin

Michel Laliberté

Philippe Guerreiro

Prokash Roy

Rosita Dadoun Fernandez

Cyril Pinero

Édouard Philippe

Vincent Ronsse

Maïko-Eva Verna

Brandon Suffys

Xavier Jozelon

Emmanuel Macron

Michaël Estarque

Xavier Desmoutiers

Abraham Amkpa

Océane Dalmazzo

Jérôme Seydoux

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Thomas Bidegain

Jean-Yves Asselin

Simon Franglen

Jean-Marie Dreujou

Jean-Christophe Magnaud

Reynald Bertrand

Dominique Moisan

Matthieu de la Mortière

Ardavan Safaee

Michaël Laguens

Lucien Balibar

Jean Rabasse

Jessy Kupperman

Hélène Lefèvre

Gurwal Coïc-Gallas

Laurens Ehrmann

Cyril Holtz

Damien Lazzerini

Drama

Thriller

Notre-Dame brûle

Pathé

TF1 Films Production

Wildside

Reperage

Vendôme Production

France

Italy

CinemaSerf

Just imagine. A builder on the roof of this ancient monument is having a fly cigarette. He throws the butt from the rooftop but instead of finding it's way to the ground, it is blown through one of the slitted windows whereupon it encounters some debris from a pigeon's nest and - well quite literally all hell breaks lose. Jean-Jacques Annaud intersperses real footage of this terrible conflagration with a drama offering us a plausible depiction of just how difficult it was for the Pompiers of Paris to not only tackle this blaze, but to get through the grid-locked streets of their city to the Île de la Cité in the first place. There is a palpable sense of the heat, the smoke - and the fear as the fire fighters tried to coax the water pressure into a meaningful tool to put out the fire whilst what seemed like gallons of molten lead slurped around the roof using the gargoyles as did Charles Laughton back in 1939. The dramatic elements are adequate, but to be honest they don't really matter - most of this is eye-watering. Certainly, you are pretty clearly aware of what is real and what has been staged - the intimate photography leaves us in little doubt of that, but again that doesn't really matter. This film demonstrates the courage and bravery of those tasked with stopping history burning down around them, whilst building on the response nightmare and the religiosity of those who can't quite believe God is allowing this to happen at all! It is all told pacily and effectively in just under two hours. What I really found irritating - exasperating, even, were all the spectators clogging everywhere up - so long as they had a vantage point then the emergency services could wait their turn... Fascinating to watch, and well worth it.

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