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Breathless cinemas

2020-12-29T19:13:48.878Z


SURVEY - The year that is coming to an end will have seen the first long-term closure of theaters since the cinema has existed and the unprecedented platform offensive. A double penalty for operators, who will have to reinvent themselves at the end of this crisis.


In Guingamp, in Brittany, the facade of the Les Korrigans cinema is barred with a banner “I am not essential”.

Inside, Christmas decoration lights up movie posters that might have drawn crowds for the holidays.

"In view of the crowded shopping centers, a third confinement hangs in our face,"

sighs its director, Xavier Herveau.

“The government helps us but does anything else,

asserts this entrepreneur.

The independent operators of Dinan and Saint-Brieuc, with whom I speak by videoconference, are also having trouble sleeping.

Fortunately, we are united.

"

At 37, Xavier Herveau is one of the young dynamic bosses of French cinemas.

In this sub-prefecture of 7,000 inhabitants, its sessions at 10 pm on weekdays with feature films such as

Peninsula

,

Tenet

or

30 days max

have been a revolution for young people.

Its choice of films and events such as tea parties attract spectators who

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Source: lefigaro

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