The Voice of Liberty will be released in French cinemas on November 15, 2023. Released in the U.S. on July 4, the feature directed by Alejandro Monteverde, along with Barbenheimer’s The Phenomenon, was a surprise summer box office success. Office grossed $190 million (for a $15 million budget), ahead of Mission Impossible 7 or Indiana Jones 5.
The story of the film tells about the character of Tim Ballard, played by Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ). The man is a former US federal agent. He risks his life to launch a rescue operation to free hundreds of children held captive by sex traffickers. In France, the feature film will be distributed by Saje Distribution, which announced the release date in a press release.
“We are honored to make Sound of Freedom available to French-speaking audiences. Its mission, as the director writes, is to ‘raise awareness of the reality of child trafficking.’ They are working on these topics.”
The film will be released on November 15, World Day for the Prevention of Violence against Children (Sunday, November 19) and International Children’s Rights Day (Monday, November 20).declares the distributor.
Success in the future?
According to CNNThe success of the feature film must be qualified by the suspicion of empty theaters in American cinemas. Angel Studios, Sound of Freedom’s producer and distributor, reportedly invited supporters to buy tickets in bulk ahead of its release, with the aim of offering them free to low-income audiences on a dedicated website.
“The distributor claims that 9.5 million tickets have been sold…with a paradoxical effect seen in some American multiplexes: at the Sound of Freedom sessions that should have been sold out, there were actually many empty seats, purchased and available seats found no buyers.”noted Telerama.
true story
Sound of Freedom is inspired by a true story, but with many gray areas, especially the controversial personality of the real-life Tim Ballard.
The story is largely inspired by the life of Tim Ballard, a former civil servant who founded an NGO in 2013 that specializes in penetrating child trafficking networks in Latin America and the Caribbean using heavy-handed methods.highlights Télérama.
A controversial film
Very controversially, the paper has also been accused of promoting conspiracy theories related to QAnon. “According to this movement, the ‘central lie’ implies that a ‘satanic elite group’ at the head of child trafficking and child crime networks is trying to control our politics and media.explain Vanity Fair.
Therefore, French viewers will be able to judge him on November 15, 2023.
Source: Allocine
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