Cinema: a disastrous year 2020 for French cinemas
An empty cinema hall in Mulhouse, October 29, 2020. AFP - SEBASTIEN BOZON
Text by: Elisabeth Lequeret Follow
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2020, “annus horribilis” for French cinema which, depending on the two confinements, will have seen dark rooms closed for five months and, inevitable consequence, will have suffered a vertiginous drop in attendance.
The CNC, National Center for Cinematography, has just delivered the attendance figures and they are disastrous.
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It is a record, a sad record: the attendance of cinemas in France fell by 70% in 2020. According to the National Cinematography Center (CNC), cinemas recorded only 65.10 million admissions this year, against 213.07 million in 2019. Almost poverty and a source of deep concern for professionals, especially since the hoped-for reopening of theaters on January 7 seems to be compromised.
While on average around twenty films reach or exceed two million admissions, there were only three in 2020:
Tenet
by Christopher Nolan (2.3 million admissions),
1917
by Sam Mendes and
Sonic
by Jeff Fowler.
Some French films have done well
Little consolation, the market share of French films has jumped and passed American films.
Some have pulled out of the game. This is the case of
Antoinette
in the
Cevennes
, and
Simply Black
, left between the two confinements.
Others, on the other hand, like
Adieu les cons
by Albert Dupontel or
ADN
de Maïwenn were stopped in full swing.
Not to mention those who, like
Mandibules
, the new comedy by Quentin Dupieux, were ready for a release during the Christmas holidays, with thousands of posters already posted.
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