French cinema between entries and enthusiasm – Libération

Favorable in terms of tickets sold, the year 2024 was notably marked by the locomotives “A little thing in addition” and “The Count of Monte Cristo”.

While France is going through a period of major questioning with an XXL-sized public accounts deficit and the return of the specter of unemployment, French cinema is experiencing a clearly favorable period in terms of the number of admissions. The 2024 locomotive obviously remains the comedy of and with Artus, A little something extra, which displays 10,788,247 entries, followed by the Counts of Monte Cristo by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière (9,265,868 spectators to date but the film is still widely showing).

The two big releases of October, Love phew by Gilles Lellouche (3,036,666 entries) and Mr Aznavour (1,070,738 entries) also achieved significant performances. Released earlier at the start of the school year, Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard has also crossed the millionaire mark. According to the latest statistical report from the CNC, “the month of October 2024 is the best since the end of the health crisis with 15.53 million admissions”. The Arthouse sector achieved some good results, we can cite, French film again, Souleymane's Story by Boris Lojkine who continues his long-term career with 395,851 spectators or the Iranian film by Mohammed Rasoulof whose seeds of the wild fig tree attracted a large audience (528,766 entries). He had seen a predicted Palme d'Or slip away from him in favor of the American Sean Baker, whose Anora (212,504 tickets sold) is not in turbo mode.