Ace This Quiz: Can You Score 12/12 on the Year’s Best Movies?

Tonight, as the clock strikes midnight, countdowns will commence all over France, marking the beginning of a new year. For movie buffs, this transition is not only a time to anticipate the upcoming 2025 releases (such as Avatar: Fire and Ash, Zootopia 2, Superman, Dog 51) but also to reflect on the past year.

2024 has once again delivered memorable moments, including George Miller’s return with Furiosa, Denis Villeneuve’s second installment of Dune, and, in the realm of animation, the highly anticipated sequel to the adventures of Riley and her emotions in Inside Out 2.

French cinema also shined brightly with surprising hits like Artus’s Un p’tit truc en plus, nearing 11 million admissions in France by year’s end, the recent success of The Substance by director Coralie Fargeat, which might surprise at the next Oscars, and the warm reception to the big-screen adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

The film starring Pierre Niney will be shown on Canal+ this Friday night, and we’ll share some behind-the-scenes secrets before presenting our last quiz of the year where you’ll try to identify the titles of these twelve films released in 2024.

DID YOU KNOW?

A classic revisited

The Count of Monte Cristo has been adapted around thirty times for TV and film. The most recent, The Count of Monte Cristo starring Jim Caviezel, was released in 2002, while Josée Dayan’s miniseries featuring Gérard Depardieu remains among the most renowned.

Reunions

Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte have reunited with several actors they have previously worked with. This includes Laurent Lafitte from Papa ou maman and its sequel, Patrick Mille who was in their first short film La Jungle, as well as Adèle Simphal and Marie Narbonne from Le Meilleur reste à venir.

Let’s talk money

The budget for The Count of Monte Cristo is estimated at 43 million euros. For comparison, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan cost 36 million, as did its sequel, Milady.