+73% viewers and 300,000 admissions: consent defies all predictions at the box office

The film Le Consentement, which was released in theaters on October 11, is enjoying an atypical success. Which has earned him many press articles in recent days.

As noted by its producer, Mark Missioner, the film continues to grow at the box office week after week: “For a reboot of 380 copies in week 4, #leconsentment already crossed the 300,000 record mark in France yesterday, setting a daily record (over 23,500 records incomplete on 1/11).“.

“With 142,354 French hits on 240 copies in week 3, #leconsentement recorded a spectacular +73% increase to 284,202 French hits!“

While it’s not uncommon for movie attendance to boom during school holidays and/or public holidays, the success of consent is surprising.

“This is unheard of“, Mark Missonier pointed out in the columns 20 minutes. “Conventional models do not apply, the big question is what will happen after the holidays are over“Schools on Sunday,” he continues.

and added: “Theaters tell us that never before have so many young people under the age of 20 or 25 come to see a French auteur film.

As we pointed out last week, this rebound in attendance may stem from the social network, especially popular among young people, Tik Tok. The film’s publicists broke the news last week with supporting examples.

A phenomenon that we could observe, for example, in the creation of word of mouth (“buktok”) on books, but which, a priori, is much rarer when it comes to cinema releases, in this case cinema releases. French author.

According to the Satisfaction ObservatoryA similar phenomenon can be observed in Simon, The Trip of the Century, which had good longevity in theaters in 2022.

“Although we do not yet have exact data on the age of the audience and the reasons for going to the cinemas, Le Consentement has caused a very quantifiable phenomenon: the long video footage on the TikTok app has accumulated 26.2 million views.“, he noted Parisian in his columns this morning.

Vanessa Philo at the AlloCiné microphone

The newspaper Le Parisien also states that Le Consentement will be screened at the National Assembly on 21 November by the Secretary of State for Children, Charlotte Cowbell.

Released in January 2020, Le Consentement, the story of the film created a lot of buzz when it was released. Vanessa Springora’s harrowing testimony exposed the pedophilic practices of Gabriel Matznefi, who nevertheless claimed them in his books (especially “Until Sixteen,” published in 1974) for decades. This autobiographical story has sold more than 180,000 copies worldwide.

The movie “Consent” is currently in theaters.