The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Jean Delannoy
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Actor: Alain Cuny, Anthony Quinn, Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Danet, Robert HirschDirector: Jean Delannoy
Brand: Miramax
Cinematographer: Michel Kelber
Producer: Raymond Hakim
Producer: Robert Hakim
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: Jacques Pr?vert
Writer: Jean Aurenche
Writer: Victor Hugo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
DVD Reviews of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
DVD Review: Notre Dame de Paris
Summary: 5 Stars
I reserve the right to change my rating after this item is opened and viewed. I purchased it as a Christmas gift. However, the item arrived quickly and appears to be in excellent condition. DVD Review: True to Walt Disney's Version of the Hunchback
Summary: 3 Stars
After viewing some of the songs of this product on YouTube, I was under the happy impression that this performance would be a true representative of the exalted story written by Victor Hugo.
It appears I should have been the Pope of Fools.
Other than throwing in a few key elements of the story, it is very different from the novel. Phoebus is portrayed as a gallant man who is torn in love between Esmerelda and Fleur de Lis (in the book, he's in love with neither), Esmerelda fights his advances in the typical cat-and-mouse play of modern flirtation (as opposed to being fatally possessed with him), and Quasimodo is desperately in love with her from the start of the story, despite the fact that in the novel he does not love her until she has pity on him during his corporal punishment (a key dramatic act of the whole plot).
On the plus side, Frollo does come across as a man who is torn between heaven and hell, which is usually not portrayed in other variations of the story (i.e. he's not a villain with horns and a pitchfork). The actor who plays Gringoire does a great job in providing the mannerisms for this "philosopher" (too bad Djali isn't in the performance).
I would have given this a lower rating except for the beautiful music (particularly the song "Belle") and the phenomenal voices and acting by most of the actors and actresses. In short, if you enjoy aesthetic work qua aesthetics, you will enjoy this performance. If you are looking for a true adaptation of the movie, look elsewhere.
DVD Review: Poor Quality
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a * remastering of a ****1/2 star movie. The picture quality is very poor--grainy, unclear, and the color is bad. I found the movie almost unwatchable.
What fans need is a decent remastering of this classic movie, NOW.
DVD Review: Anthony Quinn, in full monster regalia, remains in the memory...
Summary: 4 Stars
'Notre Dame De Paris,' set in medieval Paris in the year 1482, tells the moving story of a beautiful gypsy dancer and a grateful hunchback who adores her...
Quinn's distinctive interpretation of the ward of the cathedral in the sumptuous, wide-screen, full-color version of the Victor Hugo successful historical novel, is full of vitality as well as pity...
Despite the spectacular appearance of Gina Lollobrigida, top-billed as Esmeralda, it is Quinn in full monster regalia who remains in the memory, not many lengths behind Lon Chaney and Charles Laughton...
The motion picture is focused on the events leading to Esmeralda's trial for witchcraft and the stabbing of her noble lover, the cavalier of King Louis XI... Esmeralda is accused of the crime, tortured and sentenced to death... When she is about to be hanged, Quasimodo pushes the hangman aside, sweeps her into his arms, and carries her into the sanctuary of Notre Dame...
Much of the rich atmosphere so vividly described in the Hugo irresistible tale - the happy Festival of the Fools, the Court of Miracles, the cathedral and its role as the center of medieval Paris, the storming of Notre Dame - provide the spectacle a timeless message of lust, jealousy, prejudice, hate, compassion and love...
Quasimodo is just 'one long, ugly face from his head to his toes,' but in his distorted body, there is lot of humanity, kindness, and gratitude... Quasimodo lives high in the church towers... We see him exceptionally agile, showing no fear for its height, climbing down its facade, embracing its huge bell, telling Esmeralda in halting words that she is safe within the walls of the cathedral... That day, Quasimodo leaps onto 'Big Louise' and rides his beloved huge bell back and forth sending its mighty sound throughout Paris for his beloved Esmeralda...
Esmeralda is the sensuous gypsy girl, who ascends the pillory to quench Quasimodo's thirst... She is fond of dancing, noise and open air... She is in love with one man whom she calls the 'bright sun.'
Master Frollo (Alain Cuny) is the man in black who inspires respect and fear... He is the haunted Archdeacon of Notre Dame, an expert on witchcraft... It is said that he is the greatest magician of all France, but magic is merely illusion... Frollo is completely taken with Esmeralda's beauty... He is the king's judge who lies about the ravishing temptress who follows him in his dreams... His thoughts are like Quasimodo's face, ugly! ('We are brothers.. your face and my soul..')
Phoebus (Jean Danet) is vain, arrogant, and opportunistic... To him, the Gypsy girl is a sexual object to be cynically manipulated, used and rejected... The only love which the Captain of the King's Archers recognizes is narcissism... His tendency to erotic self-love and his excessive self-admiration...
Robert Hirsch is the harmless poet - educated under the patronage of Master Frollo - who breaks the laws of the kingdom of thieves and beggars, and has one chance to live...
'Notre Dame De Paris' shows us that human nature always struggles between two opposing forces: The light and the darkness, the grotesque and the beautiful, love and hate, hope and despair...
DVD Review: sadly, this just doesn't hold up
Summary: 1 Stars
I recall seeing this movie as a kid and loving it. However, it looks very old-fashioned, is very stiff, very staged looking. It's just kind of hokey.
A new "Hunchback" movie is needed. I'm waiting for that one, maybe with Brad Pitt as the hunchback.
Best,
Film Guy
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