Prime Minister Jean Castex attended the screening of the film
Slalom
in the Parisian cinema Les 7 Parnassiens, on Wednesday afternoon, on the first day of the reopening of the theaters, and expressed his
"pride"
in having supported the operators of theaters. .
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The head of government was accompanied by the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot. The president of the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF), Richard Patry, explained to the head of government that, on the whole of France,
"we think we will make 200,000 admissions (Wednesday), or twice more than a traditional Wednesday: the French have a great desire to go back to the movies ”
.
"And we understand them!"
, replied the Prime Minister.
Jean Castex also praised his action with representatives of the sector, while the president of the FNCF stressed that in
"the United States, we think that a quarter of cinemas will not reopen"
, seeing
"the big difference and other countries envy us ”
.
The session took place in the multi-art house located in the Montparnasse district.
Thirty average spectators also attended the screening, while cinemas are currently limited to a maximum level of 35%.
“Slalom”, director Charlène Favier's first feature film, brings together Noée Abita and Jérémie Renier.
This subtle and visually ambitious drama deciphers with finesse the mechanisms of psychological control at the origin of a taboo in sport: sexual abuse.
The film, after having received a warm welcome in Angoulême, had been selected by the Cannes film festival in 2020.
Asked by AFP about the last feature film he had seen in the cinema, Jean Castex replied that it was
J'accuse
, by Roman Polanski, about the Dreyfus affair.
“History, always history!”
Commented the Prime Minister, specifying that this meeting had taken place “at the Lido de Prades”, a town in the Pyrénées-Orientales of which he was mayor before entering Matignon.