Paris (AFP)
Accomplished filmmaker is looking for amateur videographers: the director Jean-Jacques Annaud, in the middle of shooting a film on the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris, launched on Monday an appeal to witnesses from all over the world, to send him their videos the evening of the disaster.
The sequences, which must represent "preferably the traffic jams caused by the event, the chants in the night to encourage the firefighters or the reactions abroad to the vision of Notre-Dame on fire", can be sent to the site dedicated internet "notredamebrule.com".
The selected images can be included, for a fee, in the film "Notre-Dame Burns" which is due to be released in 2022.
Director of very big successes like "The bear" (1988), "The name of the Rose" (1986) or "Deux frères" (2004), Jean-Jacques Annaud embarked at the age of 77 in the filming of this film on the fire which partially destroyed the Parisian cathedral on April 15, 2019.
Designed as a big-show film, for the cinema, it will mix around 5% of archive footage of the drama, with reconstructions, in the studio and in places such as Bourges Cathedral.
The scenario, he wants to stick to the reality of the disaster: "We do not tell stories, it is enough to follow the reality which is infinitely more baroque, sometimes burlesque", explained the director in March to AFP, during the start of filming in Bourges.
"I wouldn't have dared to do these dramatic twists and turns, if it wasn't locked on the truth. I've never written a screenplay so happily, so quickly," he added.
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