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Notre-Dame on Fire

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Top Cast

  • Samuel Labarthe

    Samuel Labarthe

    General Gontier

  • Jean-Paul Bordes

    Jean-Paul Bordes

    General Gallet

  • Mickaël Chirinian

    Mickaël Chirinian

    Laurent Prades

  • Jérémie Laheurte

    Jérémie Laheurte

    Chief Adjutant Joël

  • Maximilien Seweryn

    Maximilien Seweryn

    Chief Sergeant Reynald

  • Garlan Le Martelot

    Garlan Le Martelot

    Aurélien, young manager

  • Dimitri Storoge

    Dimitri Storoge

    Captain Francis

  • Pierre Lottin

    Pierre Lottin

    Lieutenant Alexandre

  • Jules Sadoughi

    Jules Sadoughi

    Chief Sergeant Jordan

Overview

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Rating

6.6 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Jul 28, 2022

    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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Blast

In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situation: an anti-tank mine has been set under the car. Sonia is a bomb-disposal expert, who works for a NGO with Fred. She just got back from a mission in Ukraine and, while she's used to face dangerous situations, with the children's lives on the line the stakes have never been higher. Along with colleagues Igor and Camille, who came to the rescue, Sonia and Fred have 30 minutes to defuse the bomb and work out who could be the mastermind behind this. Will they stand united until the end or will the family implode under pressure?

Blast

6.7 2022