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11.09.2023 - 17:35 / variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “The Eternal Memory,” Chilean documentarian Maite Alberdi’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated “The Mole Agent,” is smashing box office records in Chile. Bowing Thursday Aug. 24 in 70 theaters and shooting straight to No.
1, “The Eternal Memory’s” first week 80,157 ticket sales gave the film the biggest bow of any doc feature in history in Chile and the best opening of any Chilean film of any kind since 2018. As the film sold out at screenings, its screen count was hiked to a 105 screen count from Aug. 28, doubling theaters in some regions and adding ones in parts of Chile which doesn’t normally screen national films.
“The Eternal Memory’s” first 10-day 102,696 admissions converted it into the high-grossing doc feature in Chilean history. Tracking at near to 200,000 admissions, “The Eternal Memory” has now begun to challenge live action features, such as “Papa al Rescate,” Chile’s big early year comedy. “What’s most interesting is that we’re talking about a little-seen phenomenon: a film that wins Sundance and plays the Berlinale but yet is still an audience phenomenon in a country of origin,” said Alexandra Galvis, who distributes the film in Chile via Market Chile.
Rare examples of that double whammy are Pablo Larraín’s “No,” Andrés Wood’s “Violeta Went to Heaven” and Sebastián Lelio’s “Gloria.” “The Eternal Memory” is fast approaching those films’ box office, she noted. “Normally, we have films of enormous quality and festival awards; and on the other hand, big commercial productions of good quality which are looking for mass audiences but don’t have festival runs. Maite is the first woman to achieve both: Multi-prized cinema at international events that also breaks box
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