"Tenet", the latest film from director Christopher Nolan, attracted 809,601 spectators in France, the best theatrical start of 2020. The blockbuster, the only one to be released during the epidemic, was eagerly awaited by cinema managers to bring the French back to dark rooms. 

Tenet

goes strong: at the end of the first weekend of operation, the only blockbuster to be released during the coronavirus epidemic attracted 809,601 spectators in France, the best theatrical start of the year 2020, said Monday Warner Bros.

Better than Dunkirk and Interstellar

This year, the best start after a first weekend came from a film released in February, "Sonic the film", with 569,071 admissions according to CBO Box-Office.

The genre record is still held by "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis", with nearly 3.6 million admissions in 2008, according to the same reference site. 

Tenet

, screened in 678 cinemas in France, also achieves a first weekend superior to that of the two previous films of its director Christopher Nolan,

Dunkirk

, in 2017, (708,000) and

Interstellar

, in 2014, (650,000 spectators), according to Warner. .

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$ 53 million at the box office

In a statement released in the United States on Sunday evening, Warner Bros.

Pictures indicated that

Tenet

, released this week in several territories around the world - but not yet in the United States - "has already made $ 53 million at the box office."

This 200 million dollar blockbuster, after several postponements, was the only one of its kind to dare to be released at the end of the summer, on August 26.

To the question “Will this film save the cinema in 2020?”, In the context of the Covid-19 disaster, the BBC responded in the affirmative in a recent analysis, portraying Nolan as a “patron saint” of dark rooms.

Tenet

 mixes espionage and science fiction, with a storyline hook that is reflected in its title, a palindrome, that is to say a word that can be read in both directions.

Either the treatment that Nolan reserves for the characters in his film, who will be able to advance normally in the plot or go back in time to try to be one step ahead of the other.

What dynamite, with this touch of fantasy, an otherwise classic plot of a secret agent - John David Washington, son of Denzel, seen in

BlacKkKlansman

 - on the heels of an evil spirit - Kenneth Branagh - who threatens humanity.