The artists are "tired, anxious but do not come out washed out" of the crisis, estimated Roselyne Bachelot at the microphone of the program "Les Enfants de la République", broadcast this Sunday on Radio J. She is committed to ensuring that the government continues “to help all those who need it”.
Nearly 14 billion euros have been mobilized for the world of culture in France since the start of the health crisis "Everyone recognizes that there is not a country that has done as much as France to save its culture,” she said.
Great inequality between rooms
Because “I'm not all-out optimism!
I know that in the cinema, there is still a 25% drop in attendance, in live performance too “at the start of the year, compared to the same period before the crisis linked to Covid-19.
The drop would be 20 to 25% depending on the theaters, compared to the same period in 2019. And with a strong inequality between the theaters: "there are shows that work", with full theaters, and others where the public is not there, regretted the minister.
Many shows have suffered during the holidays from contamination from their artists or technicians, and many are empty seats each evening, due to positive cases that are revealed among the spectators at the last minute.
Restrictions on gatherings have begun to be lifted: since Wednesday, there is no longer a 2,000-person gauge for seated gatherings, and standing concerts will be able to resume on February 16.
But not everything will be settled: “There are programming problems because standing concerts are generally international tours.
Standing concerts are going to have a harder time getting back to normal than classical concerts, ”acknowledged Bachelot.
According to the minister, the world of culture is “faced with both” an extremely harsh pandemic and (…) the great digital wind, the appearance of the metaverse.
It's extremely violent, this double anguish.