Notre-Dame on Fire was released in France on 16 March 2022, by Pathé Distribution in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, and standard formats.

[10] The scenes recounting the start of the fire were set in the 13th-century framework of Saint-Étienne cathedral in Sens.

[11] To complete his film, director Annaud made a public call for actual footage from the day of the fire: "I still need the traffic jams that were created by this event, the people singing in the night to cheer on the firefighters who saved the cathedral.

It also was released on 22 July 2022 in the United Kingdom by Pathé's British distributor, Warner Bros. Pictures.

The film made up part of the top 3 at the box office in the run-up to Printemps du Cinéma 2022.

[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.