A night at Paradiso, the first "cinema-hotel" in Paris

Éric Martin for Le Figaro Magazine (photos)

To be cold in the back, it is at the Hotel Paradiso that you will have to take a shower while watching

Psychosis

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In Paris, on the edge of the Place de la Nation, there are 34 rooms and two suites arranged over seven floors.

Nestled in the halls of the MK2 Nation, the place opens up like a curious machine to explore the history of cinema.

“The concept has evolved according to technology and inspiration,”

explain Nathanaël and Elisha Karmitz, creators of the place.

But our first idea did not deviate: a hotel where each room would be a cinema. ”

By taking your key, under the neon lights of the entrance, you access a labyrinthine catalog of several thousand titles.

Two clicks on a tablet, a large screen covers the window and the room falls into darkness.

The film starts.

Flashback

We could, depending on the programming, go back in the history of the company MK2 and unwind a saga of French cinema.

Start, for example, with

Cléo

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