Culture news Netflix strikes back at Amazon with this ultra-cliched French comedy, what did subscribers do to God?
Published on 03/10/2023 at 14:22
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The “war” between the various SVOD services is in full swing at the start of 2023. Disney+, but above all Amazon Prime Video and Netflix are going head-to-head. Against all expectations, it is now the French comedy that is the subject of all the attention.
Are you coming for vacation ?
The new original production from Amazon studios is coming to Prime Video. Michaël Youn, the troublemaker of French television in the early 2000s who became an actor and filmmaker, offers himself a memorable vacation on February 24, 2023. BDE is a French comedy directed by and with Michaël Youn in the main role narrating the highly eventful holidays of forty-somethings in the upscale resort of Val Thorens. Former members of a BDE (for Student Office), they come across the new generation. The stay promises to be epic.
Netflix was quick to respond by unsheathing another “made in France” comedy, not an original production, but a film released in 2018. Ibiza, directed and scripted by Arnaud Lemort (Depression and friends, Love is better for two, The antidote, etc.) features the “prince” of French comedy during a trip festive with the family on the famous island of the same name. Christian Clavier, formerly the interpreter of Asterix in the cinema, gives here the reply to Mathilde Seigner, Joey Starr as well as Olivier Marchal. The latter is none other than the director of 36 Quai des Orfèvres, MR 3, Carbone, Bronx and Overdose. Netflix subscribers flocked to this film which brings a ray of sunshine in this rainy month of March. Indeed, Ibiza occupies the TOP 2 of the most watched films on Netflix in France since its arrival on the streaming platform in early March 2023.
The cinema also targeted
SVOD services are not the only ones to host the annual production of French comedies. The month of February was marked by the theatrical releases and within a week of intervals of two films with the aim of wresting a sincere smile from the spectators: Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom on February 1 and Alibi.com 2 on February 8. The films of Guillaume Canet and Philippe Lacheau have since topped the French box office, even if the fate of the two feature films turns out to be very different. With 3,305 million admissions, Alibi.com 2 is already a financial success, which is not the case for the new adventures of Asterix the Gaul. The 4,354 million admissions are far from enough to reimburse a colossal budget estimated at 65 million euros.
