Dahan and Donnersmarck see “la vie en rose”
French cinema has got off to a fine start at the 2007 box office with Olivier Dahan’s La Vie en Rose [+see also:
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The film on the life of Edith Piaf (see news) has attracted a whopping 2.8m filmgoers in 14 days (€16.8m gross, distribution TFM), with attendance falling only 18% in its second week, which saw another local blockbuster – Gérard Krawczyk’s Taxi 4 [+see also:
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Distributed by EuropaCorp and ARP Sélection, the adventures of the Marseille taxi driver is now in pole position with 3.2m admissions after two weeks on screens (€18.7m gross).
German helmer Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck’s 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner, The Lives of Others [+see also:
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European cinema is also in the headlines with 630,000 admissions in three weeks for the joint UK/Italian/French production Hannibal Rising [+see also:
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With a 56% market share since January 2007, French films’ share rose to 72% and 65% in the last two weeks of February.
Films to get off to a good start in their first week were Valérie Guignabodet’s Dance With Him [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Laurent Tirard’s Molière [+see also:
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Luc Besson’s inexhaustible Arthur and the Invisibles [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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