It's hard not to float into the clouds when Gian Marco Schiaretti, as the poet Gringoire, bellows the stratospheric "Le temps des cathédrales". Debuting in 1998 in Paris, the sung-through "Notre Dame de Paris" French musical catapulted into meteoric international fame. So much hype was kindled around the long-awaited NYC premiere and limited run. Composer Richard Cocciante's score and Luc Plamondon's songwriting is transportive, not so much for situating you in medieval Paris of this Victor Hugo-adapted tale, but rather a vibe. The river...
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- 7/29/2022
- by Caroline Cao
- Slash Film
French singer France Gall has died. She was 70.
Gall, who owned France’s pop charts for decades and who inspired “My Way,” died Sunday morning in Paris’ American Hospital. Cause of death was a severe infection complicated by cancer, according to her publicist.
Born Isabelle Gall in 1947, she was the daughter of a songwriter who had penned hits for Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.
After her first theatre and radio performances, Gall was signed to a record label while still a minor, eventually releasing her first single in October 1963, “Ne Sois Pas Bete,” a French cover of the Laurie Sisters’ “Stand A Little Closer.
Gall, who owned France’s pop charts for decades and who inspired “My Way,” died Sunday morning in Paris’ American Hospital. Cause of death was a severe infection complicated by cancer, according to her publicist.
Born Isabelle Gall in 1947, she was the daughter of a songwriter who had penned hits for Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.
After her first theatre and radio performances, Gall was signed to a record label while still a minor, eventually releasing her first single in October 1963, “Ne Sois Pas Bete,” a French cover of the Laurie Sisters’ “Stand A Little Closer.
- 1/7/2018
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
There's more to Notre Dame de Paris than Quasimodo, but the latest movie adaptation sounds unlikely to do the novel justice
According to Jay Fernandez at Risky Business: The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount has signed up a "high-concept action-adventure story" using "the framework of the traditional Hunchback of Notre Dame story in the vein of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies". If this isn't a spoof, it's the latest proof that Hollywood film-makers have never understood one of the greatest Romantic historical novels.
Victor Hugo's novel is called Notre Dame de Paris. Part of Hollywood's problem has been its use of the title Frederic Shoberl invented for his 1833 translation: it's not all about Quasimodo. The book is a panorama of 15th-century Paris, from Louis XI to the Villon-esque Cour des Miracles. Its dark hero is the young Archdeacon, Claude Frollo, a proto-Dostoevskian tortured intellectual. Claude unravels, mentally and morally,...
According to Jay Fernandez at Risky Business: The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount has signed up a "high-concept action-adventure story" using "the framework of the traditional Hunchback of Notre Dame story in the vein of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies". If this isn't a spoof, it's the latest proof that Hollywood film-makers have never understood one of the greatest Romantic historical novels.
Victor Hugo's novel is called Notre Dame de Paris. Part of Hollywood's problem has been its use of the title Frederic Shoberl invented for his 1833 translation: it's not all about Quasimodo. The book is a panorama of 15th-century Paris, from Louis XI to the Villon-esque Cour des Miracles. Its dark hero is the young Archdeacon, Claude Frollo, a proto-Dostoevskian tortured intellectual. Claude unravels, mentally and morally,...
- 7/17/2010
- by Marianne M Gilchrist
- The Guardian - Film News
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