Released on Wednesday January 4 in our cinemas, “Tirailleurs” by Mathieu Vadepied is the first novelty of 2023 to cross the milestone of one million spectators.
Its very good start foreshadowed it. It is now done: Tirailleurs has become the first novelty of 2023 to reach one million spectators in French cinemas. Released on January 4 at the cinema, the feature film by Mathieu Vadepied will have taken a little less than four weeks to achieve this.
A success that confirms the aura of Omar Sy, its main actor and producer, capable of bringing people together in a more dramatic register with which the general public is less familiar with him. And around a subject, the fate of Senegalese skirmishers during the First World War, little known.
Passed by the last Cannes Film Festival, where it opened the Un Certain Regard category, Tirailleurs is the eighteenth feature film starring Omar Sy to attract more than a million spectators in dark rooms. And the ninth in which he holds one of the main roles.
Biggest success of 2023 in France to date, ahead of Babylon and Les Cyclades, Tirailleurs will not be able to catch up with Intouchables, the peak of Omar Sy’s career at the French box office for more than ten years. But he could take advantage of the good word-of-mouth that surrounds him to overtake Micmacs à tire-larigot, L’Appel de la forêt or Le Raid. See Our Happy Days and its 1,473,273.