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BOX OFFICE France

The winners of 2011: Untouchable and the rest

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While the 2010 audience figure record (206.3m admissions, i.e. the best score since 1968) is about to be broken, it’s time to take stock of the box-office results for films released this year in French theatres. The final ranking is topped by two domestic comedies: directorial duo Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s phenomenal hit Untouchable [+see also:
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(14.56m admissions in seven weeks – distributed by Gaumont ) and Dany Boon’s Nothing to Declare [+see also:
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(8.13m viewers – Pathé). The podium is completed by David Yates’s UK/US co-production Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 [+see also:
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(6.51m admissions – Warner).

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In the Top 10, there is only one other European feature with Tom Hooper’s UK film The King’s Speech [+see also:
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(3m viewers - Wild Bunch Distribution) in eighth position.

Standing out among the 20 French films that surpassed the 1m admissions mark are Maïwenn’s Poliss [+see also:
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(2.3m viewers in eight weeks – Mars Distribution) and Philippe Le Guay’s Service Entrance [+see also:
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(2.27m – SND). They are followed by directorial trio Thomas N'Gijol, Fabrice Eboué and Lionel Stekete’s comedy Back To Square One [+see also:
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(1.8m – Mars); Bibo Bergeron’s animated film A Monster in Paris [+see also:
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(1.63m – EuropaCorp); Christophe Barratier’s War of the Buttons [+see also:
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(1.54m – Mars); Olivier Baroux’s The Tuches [+see also:
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(1.52m – Pathé); Eric Lavaine’s Welcome Aboard [+see also:
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(1.41m – Pathé); and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist [+see also:
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(1.52m admissions in nine weeks – Warner).

Next in line are Philippe de Chauveron’s L’élève Ducobu [+see also:
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(“Student Ducobu”, 1.47m – UGC); Yann Samuell’s War of the Buttons [+see also:
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(1.43m – UGC); Daniel Auteuil’s The Well-Digger’s Daughter [+see also:
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(1.39m – Pathé); Jérôme Salles’s The Burma Conspiracy [+see also:
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(1.35m - Wild Bunch); and Zep’s Titeuf, the Film (1.26m – Pathé). Just behind are directorial duo Frédéric Berthe and Pascal Serieis’s Hollywoo [+see also:
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(1.23m viewers in two weeks - StudioCanal); Philippe Guillard’s Jo’s Son [+see also:
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(1.23m - Gaumont); Nicolas Cuche’s Second Chance [+see also:
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(1.04m - Mars); Cédric Klapisch’s My Piece of the Pie [+see also:
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(1.02m – StudioCanal); and Olivier Marchal’s A Gang Story [+see also:
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(937,000 admissions in three weeks - Gaumont).

Among the non-domestic European films, there were noteworthy performances by Woody Allen’s Spanish co-production Midnight in Paris [+see also:
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(1.73m viewers - Mars); Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe’s German animated feature Animals United [+see also:
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(1.05m - Metropolitan Filmexport); Spanish helmer Jaume Collet-Serra’s UK/French/German co-production Unknown [+see also:
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(1m – StudioCanal); The Skin I Live In [+see also:
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by fellow Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (718,000 admissions - Pathé); and We Have A Pope [+see also:
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by Italy’s Nanni Moretti (694,000 - Le Pacte).

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(Translated from French)

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