Cinephiles and industry insiders explain why the most-watched films in 2024 were made in France
More than 9m tickets were sold for Le Comte de Monte-Cristo , based on Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel.More than 9m tickets were sold for Le Comte de Monte-Cristo , based on Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel.he most-watched films in French cinemas last year were a feelgood comedy featuring a cast of non-professional, disabled actors and a swashbuckling three-hour costume drama based on a 1,500-page novel first published in 1844.
Outside Les 5 Caumartin, one of 73 cinemas in a city that has the highest cinema density in the world against 16% in the UK, 17% in Germany and 22% in Spain. Along with the fact that for the first time in a decade France’s most-watched film of the year was French, it showed France’s “globally unique” cinema audience growth was being driven principally by the country’s own films, the CNC said.
The “diversity and uniqueness” of French film, from “historical drama, musicals, social comedies and documentaries to animated films”, explained the rise in overall attendance and a market share for national output that was “unrivalled”, he said.
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