"My Favorite Season" premiered on 14 May 1993 as the opening film at the 46th Cannes Film Festival. With 1.1 million tickets sold, it remains Téchiné's biggest box office success in France. The film was initially unable to acquire an American distributor and was released in the United States only three years later, after the modest art-house success of Téchiné's next film, "Wild Reeds". It made $760,865 at the American box office, a respectable amount for a foreign-language art film.