In Gérardmer (Vosges)
A Breton drizzle wets the Vosges city.
The mild spell melted the snow that fell at the beginning of January.
The writer Bernard Werber, president of the jury for this 31st edition placed under the auspices of literature, can go out without a hat.
Festival-goers and Gérôme residents remember with nostalgia that a decade ago, they had a picnic on the frozen lake.
This year, the misty lake invites more drowning than sliding.
Everything goes wrong, especially the climate.
Fortunately, some things don't change, like the rituals that accompany each screening.
When it gets dark, the schoolboy audience always gives their voice.
He shouts
“
No
!”
»
with each anti-piracy pictogram displayed on the screen.
He responds,
“
Shut up
!”
»
to the volunteer who shouts
“
it’s going to be all dark
”
.
And he applauds the traditional shrill sneer, the famous “witch’s cry”, which punctuates the conditioning.
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We only saw witches on the screens.
Halfway through the festival…
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