France at the box office: Guillaume Cane has the best start to the week?

First Wednesday France, September 20, 2023

1 – La Petite: 33,764 entries (including 4,104 in AVP)

2 – Les Feuilles Mortes: 21,249 entries (including 8,088 in AVP)

3 – Acid: 21,105 entries (including 5,378 in AVP)

4 – Captains! : 8,133 entries (including 6,530 in AVP)

5 – Golden Butterfly Tree: 4,821 entries (including 2,769 in AVP)

6 – the last dance! : 4,514 entries (including 2,400 in AVP)

7 – Cats in the museum: 3662 entries

8 – Deserts: 1,905 entries (including 1,249 in AVP)

9 – Folia: 226 entries

10 – Like a wolf: 172 entries

11 – classified people (repeat) : 146 entries

12 – Ida Lupino Retrospective: 44 entries

13 – Greening: 40 entries

14 – Pietro Germi, 3 trips to Sicily: 32 entries

15 – I love you, neither do I (repeat) : 26 records

to remember

With 22 feature films over a million entries to his CV, including François Ozon’s recent My Crime, Fabrice Luchin is one of French cinema’s unmistakable assets. And he proved it again this Wednesday, September 20, as 33,764 viewers flocked to theaters to discover a more sober and tender side of the flamboyant actor. Პtara.

Guillaume Niclo’s film (which is fourteen times better than La Tour, which came out in February with 90 prints, compared to 570 here) thus leads the week’s releases, with a higher score than L’Hermine, which reached a million. In 2016, the actor won a Cesar nomination. Will it happen again in the coming months?

Against Guillaume Canet, Fabrice Lucchin wins easily. But it is his second place that creates a surprise. Because it doesn’t applyAcid But a lot Dead leaves by Aki Kaurismak, Jury Prize at the recent Cannes Film Festival. Thus, the Finnish director signs the second best start of his career in France, after the 25,733 admissions of Le Havre (2011), which ended the streak with 569,501 torn tickets.

But admittedly, the film takes second place because of the scores it achieved during the previews, especially with the help of UGC cinemas that have programmed it during their week. “Like and discover” in September. If we take into account only the records made on Wednesday, September 20, Acid takes the second step of the podium.

In his second feature after La Nuée, Just Philippot adapts his short film of the same name and once again mixes genre cinema and social issues, in this story set against the backdrop of yellow vest demonstrations and eco-anxiety carried by Guillaume Canet and Letizia Doche. . If this is the actor’s weakest start since 2005, the director is already confident of doing better than his previous opus, which ended with 50,271 admissions.

Like dead leaves and acid, Golden butterfly tree It also stood out at the recent Cannes Film Festival: selected for the Monday of Filmmakers, it left the Croisette with the Camera d’Or, which awards the edition’s best first feature film, combined in all sections.

This nearly three-hour Vietnam drama about family and mourning opens in fourth place, close to La Petite per copy average (52 compared to 59 for Fabre Luchin’s film). And it is especially forward the last dance.

Figures: CBO – Box-Office