It is the 18th best seven-day start in France since 2001, and the best since Spider-Man : No Way Home in December 2021. The second episode of James Cameron’s saga brought together more than 2.7 million people in theaters in France, crushing the competition during a week marked by the end of the Football World Cup, with the semi-final and the final played by the Blues. A technical feat, this masterful blockbuster plunges the viewer into the heart of a sublimated nature, but threatened by ecocidal imperialism, inviting the viewer to go beyond the known boundaries of cinema.
“Avatar: The Way of the Water” did slightly better in theaters than the first in 2009, which exceeded 2.6 million admissions in the first week. The first had not turned the head of the critic of Release like this movie did: “Long waking dream in total immersion, inviting to bathe in the amniotic fluid of this fantasized and profuse state of nature, where all species, from the leather-tanned giant to the smallest iridescent fry, live in harmony. It is mass spectacle at the fateful hour of the collapse of ecosystems and the disappearance of thousands of species, the promise of a collective spell to embrace the ideal image of a world already lost. writes the latter in our columns. “I want to project my dreams into works”, also explained James Cameron, during an interview with Release.