• Parasite

    , Palme d'Or 2019 and Oscar 2020 for best film, is broadcast this Monday at 9:05 p.m. on France 3.

  • The distribution of this South Korean film is a “bet”, estimates Manuel Alduy, director of cinema within the program direction of France Télévisions: “It's still very different from what we usually offer. .

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     Parasite

    , it's a great story and very accessible for an audience that is not necessarily used to South Korean cinema", also underlines Manuel Alduy about the phenomenon film which attracted nearly 2 million people in theaters. French.

This is a great first for France 3. Never until the broadcast of

Parasite

, at 9:05 pm on Monday, the channel had programmed a South Korean film in prime time.

Should we still present this feature film by Bong Joon-ho?

Leaving the 2019 Cannes Film Festival with the Palme d'Or and then the Oscars, a few months later, with four statuettes, including that of best film and best director, it attracted nearly 2 million people in French cinemas.

Despite its aura of instant classic, its broadcast in the most exposed time slot of French television is for France 3 a "bet", believes Manuel Alduy, the director of cinema within the program directorate of France Televisions.

“It's still very different from what we usually offer,” he admits.

We are also in a context of the beginning of the holidays, we will have to see how it goes.

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Successful palm

If we look at the most recent audience scores of the last Palme d'Or, the results are mixed.

A family affair

, sacred in 2018, brought together 1.06 million people on Arte on May 26. On the same channel, a year earlier,

The Square

, awarded in 2017, had to be content with 669,000 curious. On May 19, 2019,

Me, Daniel Blake

, awarded in 2016, was followed on France 2 by 2.35 million moviegoers, far behind the 6 million who, at the same time, preferred

Sully

with Tom Hanks on TF1. As for 

Dheepan

, last French Palm to date, it had, in November 2018, with 1.8 million viewers, allowed the second channel to finish at the foot of the podium dominated that evening by TF1 thanks to 5.87 million

Tuche 2

fans

.

It is however important to remember that

Parasite

is much more unifying than the films cited.

It is the biggest success of a Palme d'Or at the French box office in the 21st century, after

Fahrenheit 9/11

, a documentary with 2.4 million admissions in 2004. “Every time you think you are getting money. ahead of the plot, the director finds a way to thwart expectations and replace them with his ideas, each more original and cheeky than the next.

He leaves no time to breathe, neither to the public, nor even to his characters, ”wrote Caroline Vié, film journalist for

20 Minutes

when the film had just been screened on the Croisette.

She promised the best fate to this “well-dressed” fable which “makes you want to go back there immediately”.

"No side"

"

 Parasite

, it's a great story and very accessible for an audience that is not necessarily used to South Korean cinema", underlines Manuel Alduy who is counting on the "magnifying effect" of the Cannes Film Festival whose 74th edition is 'opens Tuesday "so that the public takes the risk of coming to see it" on France 3. "We have already taken steps aside on films which, on paper, were not necessarily obvious for a broadcast on a channel clear. I think of

Tickles

, on the subject of violence against children, which in March reached 3.7 million viewers when he was not a millionaire in the cinema. "

Parasite

will also be available for catch-up on France.tv for a week.

"We want to give ourselves the chance that it reaches the widest possible audience", slips the director of cinema at France Teles.

The mission seems far from impossible.

On the other hand, France 3 will broadcast this Monday, at 11:15 p.m., just after Bong Joon-ho's film,

Happy End

by Michael Haneke.

Left empty-handed from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, this film had barely exceeded 85,000 tickets to theaters.

This is the other - the main one?

- channel programming bet.

Culture

Before "Parasite", the cinema of Bong Joon-ho, it was already tough

Cinema

Even in black and white, "Parasite" does not lack colors

A little more of Cannes ...

France 3 will also offer a Cannes-themed movie night on Monday, July 12.

The evening will begin with

Everybody Knows

by Ashgar Farhadi.

Worn by Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, this film opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. Then at 11:20 pm, place at

Redoutable

by Michel Hazanavicius.

In 2017, Louis Garrel was one of the favorites for the interpretation prize for his incarnation of Jean-Luc Godard, but he left empty-handed from the Croisette.

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