22/08/2008

Having garnered 140,876 admissions in its first week on release in French theatres, Italian director Matteo Garrone’s compelling Gomorrah [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Domenico Procacci
interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Matteo Garrone
film profile] (see Focus) has got off to an impressive start. Winner of the Grand Prize at the latest Cannes Film Festival, the title boasts the second highest per screen average (1164 viewers), after US blockbuster The Dark Knight (1551 viewers).

Launched by Le Pacte on a prudent 121 screens, despite unanimous praise from critics and mainstream press alike, Gomorrah claims seventh position in the weekly box office rankings. The promising first-week performance of this big-screen adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s investigation (re-published in France on the occasion of the film’s release) has already prompted its distributor (Jean Labadie) to increase the print run to 176.

(Translated from French)