Who said dark rooms were now reserved for people with a health pass?
While from this Wednesday July 21, the health pass becomes mandatory in cultural places (cinemas, museums ...) accommodating more than 50 people, some cinemas have found the solution.
Lower their gauges to remain accessible to everyone.
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"A complementary formula for the unvaccinated"
By lowering their gauge to less than 50 people, some rooms offer sessions especially for those who have neither a PCR test nor a vaccine.
This is the case in Saint-Omer (Hauts-de-France), the management of the Ociné cinema has chosen to set up slots for people "who do not have a health pass".
Same initiative on the side of La Flèche in the Sarthe, where the Le Kid cinema offers a “complementary formula for the unvaccinated”.
"For people who have not yet had the opportunity to obtain the complete complete vaccination schedule", sessions are scheduled every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm.
But the cinema warns that "wearing a mask will remain compulsory" during these sessions.
In Plombières-les-Bains in the Vosges, the association cinema of the city even asked the director of the film the "sense of family", Jean Patrick Benes to be present at two screenings to lower the gauge to 49 and allow unvaccinated to be able to attend.
On its Facebook page, the cinema specifies that "all the sanitary rules in force remain the norm, but the sanitary pass will not be compulsory".
While recalling that "generally we welcome less than 50 people during the sessions".
A highly commented initiative on the social network.