Chocolates, small cakes… When Le Regency, nestled in an old chapel in the countryside in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise in the Pas-de-Calais, reopened its doors on Wednesday, May 19, spectators rushed their arms loaded with gifts.
This unusual parade continued over the following days.
“It was very moving,”
says director Laurent Coët.
Something really happened that was beyond just coming back to see a movie on the big screen.
It was a human impulse that celebrated the return to a little more normal life.
With a gauge of 35%, we had to refuse people but no one complained. ”
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In Paris, the same day at the MK2 Library was just as historic.
From 7:30 am, a crowd of people pawed their way on the esplanade to attend the very first screening after two hundred days without a cinema.
By ordering his teams to open the doors a little before 8 a.m., Nathanaël Karmitz, chairman of the MK2 group's supervisory board, unsheathed his phone to
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