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Que ceux qui ont manqué le spectacle musical Notre-Dame de Paris lors de sa tournée mondiale se rassurent. L’enregistrement d’une représentation donnée au Palais des congrès de Paris, en 1999, est disponible en vidéo et en DVD.

Inspirée du chef-d’œuvre de Victor Hugo, écrit en 1831, Notre-Dame de Paris fait revivre le Paris de 1482, où les mendiants vivaient dans la Cour des Miracles, où les prêtres et les capitaines de police étaient sensibles aux charmes des jeunes bohémiennes et où les cœurs les plus purs appartenaient à des sonneurs de cloches bossus…

Mise en texte par Luc Plamondon et en musique par Richard Cocciante, cette adaptation d’un classique de la littérature française a connu un immense succès international. Porté par de bons interprètes, comme Hélène Ségara, Daniel Lavoie, Bruno Pelletier, Luck Mervil et Garou, qui interprète un Quasimodo particulièrement charismatique, le texte est vu dans une perspective plus contemporaine, les miséreux devenant des sans-papiers, par exemple. L’ensemble est soutenu avec justesse par des décors sobres et des chorégraphies précises, géométriques. Malgré un usage abusif de gros plans et de ralentis et un manque de vue d’ensemble de la scène dans cet enregistrement – véritables écueils du théâtre filmé –, voici un spectacle qui, quoique parfois grandiloquent, reste fidèle à l’esprit de tolérance et de liberté de l’œuvre originale. --Helen Faradji

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5.0 out of 5 stars Notre Dame de Paris, Nov 7 2011

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Natalia (Edmonton, AB) - See all my reviews

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I am so please with this DVD, it is a French import with a booklet inside containing the lyrics from all the songs and pictures from the show. The recording is of good quality as well. Overall, great purchase!

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4.0 out of 5 stars NOTRE DAME DE PARIS is solid version of Hunchback tale!, Jun 30 2004

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Hazen B Markoe (St. Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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With the huge success of such grand musicals as LES MISERABLES and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, it was perhaps obvious that sooner or later Victor Hugo's classic of love and fate, NOTRE DAME DE PARIS (AKA "The Hunchback of Notre Dame") would also get the musical treatment. Disney had already done it before as an animated film, but this time, the tragic story would be presented as a big operatic musical production. The end result would be somewhat mixed as NOTRE DAME DE PARIS became a theatrical box-office hit in both France and Canada, while underwhelming British and American audiences. (Part of this could be blamed on an English translation that proved to be both repetitive and banal.)

This DVD of NOTRE DAME DE PARIS presents the production in its original French with the option to access other language sub-titles, including English. There is also a 15 minute documentary covering the making of the musical. NOTRE DAME DE PARIS is indeed a sprawling production on a grand scale. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda and of the three men who are enthralled by her: the soldier Phoebus, the priest Frollo, and Notre Dame's hunchbacked bell ringer, Quasimodo. When Esmeralda is accused of a crime which she did not commit, Quasimodo rescues and shelters her in the sanctuary of Notre Dame. However, things fall apart with tragic results.

Garou does a wonderful job of capturing the pain and humanity of Quasimodo. With his plaintive gravelly voice, his is a touching performance. Helen Segara makes for a wonderfully beautiful, if somewhat distracted, Esmeralda. Daniel Lavoie is appropriately tortured as the nasty Frollo, while Patrick Fiori is solid as the shallow Phoebus. Julie Zenatti makes the usually minor role of Pheobus' fiancée an effectively strong one, while Bruno Pelletier keeps things united as a poet/narrator. The costumes, which basically suggest the story's medieval timeframe, are only partially successful in that some of the modern touches are far too jarring for the story. The choreography also suffers since some of the numbers become far too sprawling and unfocused. There are wonderful touches throughout, however, including the sobering heart-felt finale which is true to the novel. (Something that most filmed versions of this classic tend to avoid.)

Despite its flaws, NOTRE DAME DE PARIS is definitely a show that respects its source material. As a result, it deserves attention and is definitely worth a recommendation.

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4.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL!, Jun 8 2004

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Lauren Fish (columbus ohio) - See all my reviews

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the costumes and narration of this classic book made into an epic drama are fantastic, however there are some times that the play drags, making you wonder when the next BANG is going to come. The characters are fantastic, and the idea that Esmerelda is hung for a crime she did not commit is Tragic, as the book was meant to be.

This play was true to the book, unlike the disney fairytake, and Garou did a fabulous job really playing the belle ringer of notre dame as a fearful creature with a tender heart. The genius way the light of a rose window is reflected on stage made the whole place come alive. I would definately love to own this movie.

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1.0 out of 5 stars deception
je rentre de 3 semaines de vacances. Je n'ai pas re�u le DVD de Notre Dame de Paris avant mon départ. Read more

Published 3 months ago by le brenner

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Un classique à voir et à revoir. La musique, les paroles, on garde en mémoire longtemps. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Tulipe