Main Cast: Patrick Timsit, Richard Berry, Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Elbaz, Didier Flamand, Axelle Abbadie
Release Year: 1999
Country: FR
Run Time: 100 minutes
Plot
In this comedy, director Patrick Timsit plays a modern-day Quasimodo accused of 17 murders. The film uses the classic story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame to show the comic side of such everyday things as portable phones, Nintendo games, and the World Cup. The screen is always bigger and funnier than life, but the director tries to make a point that observation of life is enough to come face to face with corporal as well as verbal comedy. Using burlesque, he tries to create a more thought-provoking comedy. The highlight of the film was the discovery of a new Brigitte Bardot, Melanie Thierry, alias Esmeralda. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie Guide
Quasimodo d'El Paris is a French film directed by Patrick Timsit, which is a comedic adaptation of the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. It was released in 1999.
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten year old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town’s mysterious evangelist, Frollo. In exchange, they adopt a Cuban girl, Esméralda, from a lower social class. Ten years later, El Paris is menaced by a serial killer, and Quasimodo is the prime suspect.[1]
