Le Consentement de Vanessa Filho, which hit theaters on October 11, has so far amassed 160,000 admissions after 15 days of running, and its attendance is up 40% from the previous week. The increase in attendance can be explained, in large part, by a trending on TikTok.
For several days, users of the social network have been posting videos of themselves before and after watching a feature film about the non-consensual relationship between a writer and a 13-year-old girl.
Cinemas have told distributor Pan distributor that from this Monday, October 23, the film’s audience is predominantly female and young. Producer Marc Missonier also explains on X (formerly Twitter) that the teenagers made the film spontaneously.
Some of these videos have gone viral, reaching 1 million views within 24 hours. Film related publications Consent To date, it has accumulated more than 20 million views. The trend that has influenced the theatrical recognition of this film is adapted from Vanessa Springora’s shocking book, which denounces the destructive influence that Gabriel Matznef had on her when she was still a child.
Note that a similar phenomenon was observed for the film Simone a century later Public observatory.
If some Internet users are content with taking pictures of their faces before and after watching a feature film, others take the opportunity to criticize themselves for violence. Banned for children under 12, Jean-Paul Rouve’s feature film Unidentified and Kim Higuelin contains some shocking scenes as the director depicts sex scenes between a 50-year-old man and a 13-year-old child.
And judging by the reactions under the videos, it seems that the film is exciting young viewers who, thanks to the TikTok trend, are rushing to discover the film in cinemas.
Posted in January 2020 “Consent“There was a great uproar when it was published. Vanessa Springora’s shocking testimony exposed the pedophile practices of Gabriel Matznefi, who nevertheless claimed them in his books (especially “under the age of sixteen“, published in 1974) for decades. This autobiographical story has sold more than 180,000 copies worldwide.
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