A little slack? Far from its record years, French cinema in 2019 attracted almost as many spectators as the previous year abroad, i.e. 40.5 million admissions thanks to films like the last Luc Besson, comedies and films animation, according to data released Thursday by the National Cinema Center (CNC).
This figure is in line with 2016 (40.7 million admissions) and 2018 (43.7 million), far from the boom years like 2015 with more than 111 million admissions thanks to the locomotives of the Besson stable, immense export success.
French films at their lowest level
"2019 is a year with a film by Luc Besson but without the" Besson effect "", says the CNC in its annual report. With 4.35 million admissions outside France, Anna represents 10% of cumulative admissions abroad for a French film, where Lucy , with Scarlett Johansson, totaled almost half of admissions in 2014.
If French films in foreign languages are doing well (like Anna and Mia and the white lion ), films in the language of Molière reached their lowest level since 2010, with less than 25 million tickets sold. Another striking trend, underlines the CNC: the concentration of admissions on a handful of films and the difficulty of others to go beyond 100,000 admissions.
Comedy remains the favorite genre for export, but the seers are also green for animation with two films totaling more than a million admissions ( Asterix - The secret of the magic potion and Minuscule 2 - The mandibles of the end of the world ). It is also the only genre to have accumulated over 1 million admissions in Asia, the fifth export area for French cinema.
Falling results in North America
Unsurprisingly, it is in Western Europe that French films find the most of their audiences, capturing almost half of the admissions, then in the rest of the continent. The market share of French films continues to fall in North America, falling below 10% for the first time. Note the success of Nevada , with Matthias Schoenaerts (over 550,000 spectators), best score since 2000 in the United States for a first French film.
Faced with the rise of SVOD platforms like Netflix, Unifrance has launched a study on the weight of French films on these supports, outside of France. From which it appears that French films represented 2.4% of the catalog in November 2019, against 46% for films from the United States, almost 9% for Indian films and 4.6% for British films .
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