Les
Soeurs Fachées continued on the top 10
box-office last week. Good reviews and positive
word-of-mouth have kept people going to the Cineplex
so that Les
Soeurs
Fachées is able to hold on extremely well
at the French box office, off just 17% on
its 5th week
release,
remains 7th
place on the chart. From January
19-25, the comedy of Alexandra
Leclere has more than 135
558 attendances, making the overall admissions
now to 1
230 667 - a gross almost matches
blockbusters hits like National
Treasure or The Polar
Express and tops Alexander, The
Grudge, Melinda and
Melinda or Lemony
Snicket’s a series of unfortunate
events, among other recent releases. Next week, Martin
Scorcese’s Aviator should
open in first place but as no other opener seems
likely to have a strong
debut, except maybe 2 local productions, the latest
Isabelle's
film is expected to remain on top 10 for one more
week. (this information is provided
by Fabrice at http://fabinoche.free.fr)
However, no matter how
well the film does, it hasn't been nominated for any
of the coming Cesar
Awards. As the nominations announced
yesterday (Jan, 24),
neither
Isabelle or Catherine is
on the five finalists of the Best Actress, nor Alexandra
Leclere and
her film debut is for the Best Premier Film. Whether
is the film worth of several nominations? Whether Isabelle's
other performance - in Ma
Mère (released early of the year) - should
be overlooked? Leave your comments at Forum
- Isabelle, Award free?
Les
Soeurs Fachées, the last surprise of 2004,
remains in the top 10 for the 4th week at
the French
box
office.
Despite
of new releases,
it held on an excellent 7th place with 163
868 admissions from 441 screens
(+ 41). The film by far already makes a total of 1
095 109 admissions, ten times as much
as Isabelle's previous film Ma
mère (108
353), and more than a sum of her last 5 films
together - Ma
mère:
108 353 admissions
+ Le
temps du loup: 30
380 + La
pianiste: 768 464 + La
vie promise:
124 626 + Deux: 9
277 = 1 041 100 admissions
in total. However, with 355 admissions in average
per screen
(- 42% from last week), Isabelle
Huppert's latest movie
should fall outside the top 10 next week. But still
playing at 382 theatres on Wednesday, for its 5th week
of release, its career is not finished yet.
As
for Hedda
Gabler, it is also a complete success
for Isabelle Huppert
as its 41 dates
in Paris are already fully booked, nearly one month
before the
premiere night. There are still some seats available
for its 7 dates
in
La
Comédie de Geneva, Switzerland, from March
13-20, but those who may want to attend Isabelle’s
outstanding performance there would better not
lose time and
book a ticket as soon as possible. (this article is provided
by Fabrice at http://fabinoche.free.fr)
Starting on Jan 13, 2005,
Hedda
Galber, mis en scene par Erica
Lacascade, is put
on at Odéon-Théâtre
de l'Europeaux aux
Ateliers Berthier. Isabelle plays the heroine
Hedda Gabler in this classical play, writ tent in 1891
by Henrik Ibsen
Le
Monde: The miracle of a great actress, in which one
scans the play as looks up a diamond. In Hedda
Gabler, she is imperially fragile. A woman
at the edge of the vertigo, who fights fists closed
between
refusal and abandonment, others and herself,
at this border where only one bullet can end the combat.
A bullet in the temple, not in the heart. But it is where
Hedda Gabler says
that it places the beauty. Very high. (more from "Isabelle
Huppert prête sa solitude à Hedda Gabler",
La Monde, 14 jan. 2005). If you want to talk about the
play, go to the FORUM - In Theater.
The
3rd Week Release of Les Soeurs Fachéees 2005.01.10
(Fabrice)
The craze of the French audience for Isabelle
Huppert's latest film is now definite.
Indeed and however incredible it can sound, "Les
soeurs fachées" is now 3rd
at the French box office (ahead of National
Treasure, Der Untergang,
The grudge, The
Incredibles or Bridget
Jones 2 notably),
after three weeks of release, which means it not only
resists new releases very well (such as "Alexander" or "Der
Intergang" this week in France) but even
goes on increasing its market share each week. Now
playing
at 400 theatres nationwide (+ 20), Les
soeurs fachées attracted 252
662 more people from January 5 to 11,
so that its total of admissions is now very close to
one million (931 241 in
just three weeks). Besides,
Alexandra Leclère's
comedy has still the 3rd best average per screen of
the top 10, which lets it
be understood that its successful career is bound to
last.
Next
week, among other newcomers, Claude
Berri's "L'un
reste, l'autre part", Hayao
Miyazaki's "Howl
moving castle" or Woody
Allen's "Melinda
and Melinda" should
be its most serious rivals and could change the deal,
though. I'll tell you whether Les
soeurs fachées remains in the top 10 for the 4th week
in a row or not. Actually I think it will - by
Fabrice (http://fabinoche.free.fr/)
(Fabrice)
The latest Isabelle film, "Les
Soeurs Fachées" does incredibly well
at the French box office, so much so that it should
surpass
La Pianiste's
national score very soon and that it is already IH's
biggest hit since 8
Femmes.
Indeed, Les
Soeurs Fachées opened 5th at the
box-office, with 365 125 admission
from 340 screens
(only), from December 22 to 28. Now after 2 weeks
of release,
Les Soeurs Fachées is
still 5th at the box-office, with 314
400 more admissions
on 380 screens (= +40) from December 29 to January
4. The total of admissions is now close to 680
000 (679
525). It is besides the
2nd week in a row that Les
Soeurs Fachées has
the best average per
screen of the top 20 (!), although
it must face stiff competition from Hollywood blockbusters
like The Incredibles (+
than 900 screens), Ocean's
12 (789 screens), National
Treasure, Bridget Jones
2 or Lemony snicket`s a series of unfortunate
events, notably.
It
is therefore a real success for Isabelle
Huppert,
after a few commercial failures in the past few years
(Ma Mère, Le
Temps du Loup, Deux, La
Vie Promise).
And so, finally, the french audience prefers her last
2 comedies (after 8
femmes) to all of her recent dramas,
which is not bad for an actress who's supposed not
to be very "funny".
Susan
Sontag died of leukemia
on Tuesd, Dec 28, at the age of 71. With her dies the
era of the glamorous public intellectual - and perhaps
even the idea of New York as the center of modern literary
intelligence. (more at TheVillager)
Isabelle, related
to Susan Sonntag as
she will star in a film adpated from Sontag's novel
"In
America", in direction of Polish director Jerzy
skolimoski), gives the evidence of "she
is seemingly like an eternal student. A striking youth.
A capacity also, to be done almost childish. Far from
confining herself
in the theory, the reasoning or the analysis, she understood.
she was madly beautiful, with her thick long hair,
still like teenager. All blacks, with a white
wick. In New
York, she gave the impression lately of a great loneliness
in her own country. Already, the voice of Susan misses.
She died two days after the advertisement of the catastrophe
of the Indian Ocean. She will not have posed her lucid
glance on this disaster, will not have scanned the
flood of images of fear, to find the words. She had
endorsed this word of Katerine
Mansfield: 'At the
end, the truth is the only thing which is worth to
be required'". (from Libération,
"Déjà,
la voix de Susan manque")
This site does not have any affinities to Isabelle Huppert
officials
Every word written and
complied here is simply from the souls of her honest fans, and their fantasies
on this respectful and great actress in the world.
