The start of the winter holidays has not changed anything: the world of culture remains forced into hibernation and a total lack of prospects.
A frozen situation which continues to annoy and arouse the incomprehension of a whole sector of which the actor Pierre Niney has today made himself the spokesperson on Twitter.
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The resident of the Comédie-Française wanted to bounce back, this Sunday, on the symbolic milestone of 100 days of closure of the majority of cultural places to point out a range of inconsistencies in the management of the health crisis.
Calling on President Emmanuel Macron and Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot, Pierre Niney was surprised at the "double standards" which separates the continuous blacklisting of museums, theaters and cinemas, from the quiet functioning of places buildings, department stores and airplanes - yet just as busy.
Although the department stores have been closed since January 31, the bottom of the appeal has found an echo among other personalities in the world of culture, who oscillate between anger and spite, among which the host Nagui, or the director Hugo Gélin who cried out in despair: “
Consider us !!!
”Pierre Garnier, co-founder of the festival of young directors 7e Lune, for his part praised the“
precious commitment
”of Pierre Niney.
This new rant from the comedian comes three days after the publication of a column by actor and director Patrick Mille who, echoing young people and precarious people, already called on the President to re-authorize the activities considered as non-essential.
“
Reopen everything!
Be Churchillian!
He exclaimed.
A few days before, again, Nicolas Bedos had also called for the return of art in his farewell message to the social network Twitter: "
Strongly the reopening of dark rooms, strongly the reopening of a world where Culture considers itself
" he had written.
Technical unemployment for more than 100 days for the most part, even since last spring in the case of nightclubs, culture workers had been moved in the last fall by the non-priority and “
non-essential
” nature of their activities. activities.
If the epidemic is raging as never before in some countries like Portugal, others like Italy or Canada are slowly easing the closure of their cultural venues.
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Growing disarray
Pierre Niney had already joined other actors in December to challenge the government on the absolute necessity of reopening places of culture.
“
Frankly, it's hard to think that all the businesses, planes, trains and supermarkets in France can accommodate the public ... but not the cinemas and theaters which have made so much effort to be places that are beyond reproach in terms of health. .
”Then declared the artist on Twitter.
“
Dear Pierre Niney yes what we are going through is very hard.
We must hold on.
The pandemic is blazing across Europe.
Nothing is stabilized.
The most terrible thing would be to reopen and be forced to close after the holidays.
I will be at your side to overcome this appalling crisis,
”the Minister of Culture replied on December 10.
At the end of January, a column published in
Le Monde
and signed by a large panel of personalities in love with culture called for “the
immediate reopening of museums to improve the mental health of the French
”.
Unfortunately, while no new date for the reopening of cultural venues has yet been announced, the world of the arts remains, for the time being, a pure spectacle of desolation.
