Woody Allen is no longer a recipe. His 49th film, rifkin Festival, It is a huge flop at the box office. According to information from Parisianhis comedy with Louis Garrel got off to its worst start in France, with just 61,000 viewers in two weeks.
At the end of its operation, rifkin’s party hopes to achieve Woody Allen’s worst score since woody and the robotsa science fiction comedy that drew only 218,000 viewers in 1973.
A filmmaker accustomed to success
Woody Allen, who released a movie a year for nearly half a century, has often been a big hit in France. Until the mid-2010s, his films still regularly drew a million viewers in dark rooms.
Jasmine Blue attracted 1.4 million viewers in 2013. Y magic in the moonlight achieved a million admissions in 2014. Even the irrational man (2015) and Coffee Society (2016) came close to this score, with 942,000 and 984,000 entries, respectively.
But his last two films had started his decline: Wheel of Fortune, in 2017, it only attracted 372,660 viewers. Y A rainy day in New York (2019), released after accusations of sexual touching by her daughter Dylan Farrow, gathered 585,417 viewers.
The 86-year-old director has not yet said his last word: he will shoot his fiftieth film, a thriller, in Paris at the start of the school year.
Source: BFM TV
