Fueled by a trend on TikTok and a teenage audience won over during school holidays, the film The consent continues to defy statistics. Vanessa Filho’s work recorded 300,000 entries in three weeks. And if almost all films attract a maximum number of spectators during the first days of release, that is not the case for this one, which fills theaters more and more.
To the point that on Wednesday, the film recorded more than 23,500 admissions, its best daily figure since its release on October 11, according to figures released by its producer Marc Missonnier. After a modest first week (60,000 entries), the success was notably fueled by the reactions that young spectators, with serious faces, shared on TikTok.
Young audiences seduced by an art-house film
“It’s unheard of,” declared Marc Missonnier, producer of the film, who said he was “unable” to know how far this success would take the film. “The usual models do not apply, the big question is what will happen after the end of the school holidays” on Sunday.
“The theaters tell us that they have never had so many young people under 20 or 25 come to see a French auteur film,” he added, recounting having been “completely overwhelmed” by the craze on TikTok.
This adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s best-seller describes unvarnished the influence of the writer Gabriel Matzneff (played by Jean-Paul Rouve) over a 14-year-old girl (Kim Higelin). The film intended, upon its release, to disseminate its message even more widely, even if it can shock, with its scenes of intimacy shown head-on between the fifty-year-old novelist and the high school student.