--- description: The film received the second-most lenient rating in France’s system title: France Decides 'Fifty Shades of Grey' OK for Teenagers image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # French Teenagers Can Go See _Fifty Shades of Grey_ by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 11, 2015 11:40 PM CUT by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 11, 2015 11:40 PM CUT _Fifty Shades of Grey_ [got an 18 rating](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/02/50-shades-grey-gets-18-and-over-rating-uk "undefined") in the U.K., an R rating in the U.S.—and France gave it a 12 rating, meaning anyone age 12 and over can see the erotic film in theaters, [_Variety_ reports](http://variety.com/2015/film/news/fifty-shades-of-grey-france-rating-pg-12-teens-1201431122/ "undefined"). France has [five options for movie ratings](http://www.cnc.fr/web/en/film-classification "undefined"), with the most lenient being equivalent to America’s G rating. The 12 rating is the second-most lenient rating in France’s system. _Fifty Shades of Grey_ arrives in U.S. theaters Feb. 13. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/11/fifty-shades-france-rating-12 "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3706273/france-fifty-shades-of-grey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3706273/france-fifty-shades-of-grey/"},"headline":"French Teenagers Can Go See Fifty Shades of Grey","datePublished":"2015-02-11T23:40:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:21:13.981Z","description":"The film received the second-most lenient rating in France’s system","url":"https://time.com/3706273/france-fifty-shades-of-grey/","keywords":["movies","France","Fifty Shades of Grey"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3706273/france-fifty-shades-of-grey/","name":"French Teenagers Can Go See Fifty Shades of Grey"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Super Fans React To 50 Shades of Grey Screening","description":"Super fans who attended an early screening of the 50 Shades of Grey movie at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City had a lot to say about the film, which is set to release on February 13th.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/QjE5FVDr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-06T21:10:27.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/QjE5FVDr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3706273/france-fifty-shades-of-grey/","duration":"PT1M27S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3706273/france-fifty-shades-of-grey/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```