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"Desperately dark movie theaters"

2020-12-29T20:25:48.488Z


The editorial of Le Figaro by Étienne de Montety. Who does not remember their first film? Was it Mary Poppins, Doctor Zhivago, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ? Cinema punctuates our lives, it is inseparable from our collective memory. Do you remember The Circle of Missing Poets , on the Champs? We owe him our first emotions. Thanks to him, we had a liturgy that was a promise of happiness: waiting under the big posters - will we have a place? -, the


Who does not remember their first film?

Was it

Mary Poppins, Doctor Zhivago, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

?

Cinema punctuates our lives, it is inseparable from our collective memory.

Do you remember

The Circle of Missing Poets

, on the Champs?

We owe him our first emotions.

Thanks to him, we had a liturgy that was a promise of happiness: waiting under the big posters - will we have a place?

-, the ticket held out to an opener who tore it, before passing through the bays, carrying a large tray of sweets.

All of this was part of the event even before the curtain opened and the credits rolled off.

Today, the rooms remain desperately dark.

The magic has stopped: we are told that watching a movie in the city is seriously harmful to your health.

This is an unprecedented situation for one hundred and twenty-five years: even during the German Occupation, the cinemas remained open.

We flocked there, first because there were signed masterpieces

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Source: lefigaro

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