Thanks to the receipts, which so far amount to 2,170,404 at the box office, the comedy is The time of a summer is now the Quebec film that has grossed the most money at the box office since then Liar, in 2019.
Le temps d’un été has been showing since July 14, surpassing December 23 (2022) and The Guide to the Perfect Family (2021), the two biggest Quebec box office hits of the last two years.
However, Louise Archambault’s feature still has a long way to go to match the $6 million that Menteur, a comedy directed by Émile Gaudreault and starring Louis-José Houde and Antoine Bertrand, collected in the summer of 2019.
“This is wonderful news for film and for cinema in Quebec,” said distributor Immina Films president Patrick Roy in a press release Thursday.
“People are returning to cinemas across the province in large numbers and it is wonderful to see the feature film directed by Louise Archambault and written by Marie Vien continuing to reach audiences as it enters its eighth week. “Le temps d’un été” is a luminous and unifying work that manages to touch people’s hearts and is our biggest box office success at Immina Films to date.
Le temps d’un été tells the story of a street priest and priest from Montreal (played by Patrice Robitaille) who has to decide to close his church because he can no longer pay the bills. After inheriting an estate in Bas-du-Fleuve, he decides to take a group of homeless people there who, like him, need a vacation.
The film is still being shown in more than twenty cinemas across the province.