The Coulin sisters’ drama rises well above the others for its first day of release. “Better Man”, the Robbie Williams biopic, takes a comfortable second place, but the rest struggles to follow.
This is unheard of for Delphine and Muriel Coulin, the directors of Play with fire. This political drama centered on the difficult relationship between a father (from the left) and a son (who is gradually sliding towards the extreme right) easily rose to the top of the ranking of entries made on the first day, with 20,252 entries.
That’s impressive, especially when compared to the 3,405 admissions start of their previous film, See the country. The presence of Vincent Lindon at the head of the bill probably has nothing to do with it, but whatever it is, the film should have a good career.
Just behind, with 12,840 tickets, we find Better Manthe Robbie Williams biopic, which lends his story and voice to a CGI monkey. With its 530 copies, and therefore 24 spectators per copy, it is not such a good score if we consider the heavy media apparatus deployed for its promotion.
-High risk flight level the ground
Mel Gibson, who must save Hollywood according to Trump, seems to be far from it: High risk flight reached 8,636 tickets sold on its first day. It’s half as much as his previous feature film, You will not killwhich attracted 15,831 spectators on its first day in 2016.
In the rest of the classification, we find Jane Austen ruined my life and its 4,610 entries, which however records a rather good average, with 44 curious people per copy. The Travelerby Hong Sang-soo, only occupies seventh place, with 948 tickets sold, but an average of 26 admissions per copy (better than that of Better ManSO).
