2023-09-22 08:30:00
With 33,764 admissions, “La Petite” carried by Fabrice Luchini takes the lead in releases on Wednesday September 20 at the French box office.
1ST DAY FRANCE OF WEDNESDAY 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 – The Golden Butterfly Tree: 4,821 entries (including 2,769 in AVP)
6 – Last Dance! : 4,514 entries (including 2,400 in AVP)
7 – Cats at the museum: 3,662 entries
8 – Deserts: 1,905 entries (including 1,249 in AVP)
9 – Follia: 226 entries
10 – Like a wolf: 172 entries
11 – Classified People (Reprise) : 146 entrées
12 – Ida Lupino Retrospective: 44 entries
13 – Going green: 40 entries
14 – Pietro Germi, 3 trips to Sicily: 32 entries
15 – I love you, me neither (Reprise): 26 entries
TO RETAIN
New success in sight for Fabrice Luchini? With already twenty-two feature films with over a million entries on his CV, including the recent My Crime by François Ozon, the actor is one of the sure values of French cinema.
And he proved it again this Wednesday, September 20. Because 33,764 spectators went to French theaters to discover a more sober and tender side of the exuberant actor in La Petite.
Guillaume Nicloux’s film (which is fourteen times better than La Tour, released in February on 90 prints compared to 570 here) thus takes the lead in the week’s releases, with a score higher than that of L’Hermine, which reached the million admissions and earned the actor a César nomination in 2016. Will it be repeated in the months to come?
Opposed to Guillaume Canet, Fabrice Luchini triumphs easily. But it is his runner-up who creates the surprise. Because it is not Acid but Dead Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki, Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival. The Finnish director thus signs the second best start to his career in France, behind the 25,733 admissions to Le Havre (2011), which ended its run with 569,501 torn tickets.
But it must be recognized that the film also owes its second place to the score it achieved during the previews, helped in particular by the UGC cinemas which had programmed it during their “Aime & Discover” week in September. If we only take into account the entries made on Wednesday September 20, it is Acide who takes the second step of the podium.
In his second feature film after La Nuée, Just Philippot adapts his short of the same name and once again combines genre cinema and social issues, in this story set against the backdrop of Yellow Vest protests and eco-anxiety carried by Guillaume Canet and Laetitia Dosch.
If this is the weakest start for the actor since 2005, the director is already assured of doing better than with his previous opus, which ended its run with a cumulative total of 50,271 admissions.
Like Dead Leaves and Acid, The Tree of Golden Butterflies also stood out at the last Cannes Film Festival: selected at the Filmmakers’ Fortnight, it left the Croisette with the Caméra d’Or, which rewards the best first feature film of the edition, all sections combined.
This Vietnamese drama of almost three hours with a backdrop of family and mourning starts in fourth position with an average per copy close to that of La Petite (52 compared to 59 for the film with Fabrice Luchini). And it is notably ahead of Last Dance.
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