Snubbed in Paris but deemed hilarious in the rest of France and Navarre ... Bodins' third film is defying box office laws with a triumph in the cinema almost everywhere, except in the capital.
Basically, a fair reward for a comic duo who have built their spirit of derision on "
peasant common sense
".
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The
Bodins
in Thailand
at the top of the box office in front of Aline
The owners of the dark rooms, located outside the capital and its immediate surroundings, are pleased to note the success of the film
Les Bodins in Thailand
, released on November 17 and directed by Frédéric Forestier.
Thus Aurélie Delage, the owner of the Mégarama de Garat near Angoulême, does not hesitate to proclaim it: “
Here in rural areas, it is completely a box.
We have a lot of people who haven't been to the cinema for years, the screenings are full, people laugh and come out with a smile
”.
Watch the video
Les Bodins
in performance at the Zénith in Paris
What to relieve the operator, who scrutinizes with anguish the filling of its rooms since the start of the pandemic. And she is not the only one: in small towns, medium-sized towns and villages, the adventures of Maria, the toothless farmer, tyrannical but endearing and not stingy with a good word and her son Christian, a little in his fifties. sleeve, is the box of the year.
Caricature with broad strokes, a humor that hits the mark without being embarrassed by finesse: the
Bodin's
recipe
has conquered 860,000 spectators in ten days of operation, and has a good chance of quickly exceeding one million spectators, explains to AFP Eric Marti, head of Comscore, a company specializing in box office analysis.
When the cinema looks gloomy, especially for independent films desperate to find their audience, a few other French films have been able to do well in recent months:
Aline
, the biopic on Celine Dion by Valérie Lemercier, has started very well,
Bac
Cédric Jimenez's
North
was the surprise success of the summer.
But the Bodins do nothing like the others: the Parisian spectator who would like to see the film will only find it in two theaters in the capital, and in its first week, only 4% of the spectators came from Île-de-France, according to the professional review
Le Film Français
.
The good words of the local people
This success in the provinces is a fair turnaround for Vincent Dubois and Jean-Christian Fraiscinet, the two humorists who invented these characters in 1994 in Indre-et-Loire. Because the Bodins, who in the film will rub shoulders with the exoticism of Thai beaches to cure Christian's depression, patiently built their success with tours and TV appearances.
Their last show "
Grandeur nature
", whose tour has just resumed and which should continue until 2023, has already attracted 1.5 million spectators "
sold out in all the Zéniths of France
". Without counting the multiple representations in the Bodin's farm, in Descartes, in Indre-et-Loire.
"
Bodin's are good words, truths that people of the land tell each other, a simplicity
”, underlines their historical producer, Claude Cyndecki, who also produces Corsicans of I Muvrini. “
These are two talented artists who are despised because they represent the province and the countryside. But that's starting to change. With success, self-righteous people are afraid of missing something,
”he says again.
How far will the cinema success of those who claim “
authenticity
” and “
common sense
” go? "
They rely on a very fan, very loyal audience, it's a film that can last a very long time,
" said Eric Marti, for whom this success snowballed. "
With the Bodins, the promise is clear, we know where we are going: we are on the pleasure that we will share, have a good laugh,
”continues the specialist, who notes that this type of unifying comedies has been lacking since the reopening of cinemas. .
A void that could be filled by the release scheduled for December 8 of
Tuche 4
, all categories champions of popular laughter.
Bodin's in Thailand
by Frédéric Forestier, in 2021, with Vincent Dubois, Jean-Christian Fraiscinet, Bella Boonsang ...
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