Italian censorship visa # 96307 delivered on 20 May 2002.
First released in France in January 2003 in only 80 art-house theaters, by word-of-mouth the film became a big hit in the art-house world, and by the third week more copies were printed and it was screened in many more theaters. At the 4th week the movie had over 400.000 tickets sold, and it run a record-long 12 weeks in many art-house theaters. Almost unnoticed in Italy at first in 2002, it was then released again a second time in Italy in 2003.