Tonight on TV: This shock film was a phenomenon on TikTok

Consentshock film of 2023

When it was released in 2020, the story Consent make noise. In it, editor and writer Vanessa Springora recounts her relationship with pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff in the mid-1980s. She was 13 and he was 49 when she began this relationship. Testimony to a terrible influence and abuse of her, Consent it was quickly adapted into a feature film, directed by Vanessa Filho and released in October 2023.

In Consent, which maintains the point of view of young Vanessa, played by Kim Higelin and Gabriel Matzneff by Jean-Paul Rouve. Both deliver very successful and particularly chilling performances for Jean-Paul Rouve. He paints a terrifying portrait of a predator confident in his actions, strong in his charm and intelligence to achieve his ends, and protected by the literary community of the time. Some sequences in the film are petrifying, and all the more shocking considering that this is an authentic true story.

Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen years old when she meets Gabriel Matzneff, a well-known fifty-year-old writer. The young teenager becomes the lover and muse of this man celebrated by the cultural and political world. Losing himself in her relationship, he becomes increasingly violently subjected to the destructive influence this predator has on her.

The film ConsentVanessa Filho’s second feature film after Angel Face in 2018, it had an average debut upon its release, with nearly 60,000 viewers in its first week. In the second week, Consent progressed with around 82,000 new entries, before literally exploding in the third and fourth week, respectively with 142,354 AND 133,984 spectators. For a film with a difficult theme and a limited budget (3.2 million euros), it is very rare to see a third week have more viewers than the first two combined.

Consentphenomenon on TikTok

Explanation of this success that no one expected? Consent gave rise to a trend on the TikTok network, with young viewers film yourself before and after the film screeningand sharing their opinions. With hundreds of videos amassing tens of millions of views, the film went on to become a mini-generational phenomenon and benefited from a viral effect and solid word of mouth.

@karlmusica When the lights came on, we all looked around the room and we all cried ##consent##movie##trend ♬ The Symphony of Lightning – Zaho de Sagazan

@rojii_iranienne “ALLOWS”. I have never seen such a touching and scary movie in my entire life. It’s truly terrifying to think that there are people experiencing such tragedies. And best of all, there are watches like that. No one deserves to suffer something like this. I wish a lot of courage to all these people, whether women or men, who have been victims of pedophilia or any form of violence. I can’t pretend to understand their pain because it seems so unbearable, but I want you to know that God exists and it’s not your fault and it needs to be talked about. #May God protect us ♬ original sound – Lezappeur

After a third and fourth week in which registrations accumulated exceptionally, attendance at the film screenings increased Consent gradually slows down. Ultimately, at the end of its 12 twelve weeks of operation, it recorded a total of 616,851 entries. A success for the film’s teams and cast, and especially for director Vanessa Filho, whose previous film Gueule d’ange attracted only 107,437 spectators.

Source: Cine Serie

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