My Brother is Getting Married performs well in France
Having garnered almost 23,000 admissions, My Brother is Getting Married [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Stéphane Bron
interview: Thierry Spicher
film profile] (see Focus) is the Swiss film to have drawn the most viewers in French theatres in 2007, according to the ranking published by Le Film Français.
Jean-Stéphane Bron’s debut feature in fact leaves the other four titles released in France last year trailing far behind: Marcel Schüpbach’s Carla’s List (7,200 admissions); Jeanne Waltz’s A Parting Shot [+see also:
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interview: Jeanne Waltz
interview: Pierre-Alain Meier
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Only the minority co-production The Missing Star [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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