How the end-of-year celebrations will make their cinema (and vice versa)

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• The operators of the cinemas affirm it: they are ready to receive the public.

• A ticket time-stamping system will allow the evening session to be kept.

• The programming should be as diverse as it is of good quality for the holiday season.

A big sigh of relief.

This is how cinema operators welcomed the presidential announcement of the reopening of cinemas on December 15.

If the “health objectives are achieved”, ie if the cap of 5,000 contaminations per day is not exceeded during this period.

Stopped since October 29, and after three months of closure in the spring, the professionals really needed this good news.

Reopening of cinemas on December 15th !!

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- Sophie Soulignac (@SophieSoulignac) November 24, 2020

“We have a sword of Damocles over our heads but we are optimistic about the future.

: we will be ready for the reopening, ”says Richard Patry to

.

And the president of the National Federation of French Cinemas to explain that 25 million spectators had returned to the cinema after the first confinement without the slightest cluster being to be deplored in the theaters.

"Compliance with health instructions with wearing a mask, hydroalcoholic gel, distance and barrier gestures is essential," he says.

We are cinema exhibitors but also citizens!

"

The evening session preserved

There are many reasons to be happy for Richard Patry and his colleagues.

The government finally accepted the principle of time-stamped tickets allowing the 8pm session to be kept.

“We proposed this system during the first curfew,” he recalls.

Seeing it adopted is beneficial: it means that spectators will be able to go to the show after work or after their races, and then return home legally.

»A godsend when we know that this famous evening session is one of the busiest.

No clutter

On the programming side, the news is also excellent.

“Last year, we had sixty-three new feature films released in December,” says Richard Patry.

This year, we should only have about ten.

There will therefore be no congestion in the rooms.

»December 15, D-day of the reopening, will be devoted exclusively to works briefly released on October 28, such as

by Maïwenn or Garcon

by Nicolas Maury.

"We are also committed to resume films whose career was suddenly stopped and they will thus be able to continue to exist", insists Richard Patry.

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by Ruben Alvès,

by Rémi Chayé and, of course,

by Albert Dupontel will find their way back to the big screens.

For new products, we will have to wait until December 16 for

by Patty Jenkins

by Quentin Dupieux,

by Tomm Moore and

by Charlène Favier.

by Laurent Tirard and

by Cédric Jimenez. 

Joël Crawford's

are scheduled for the following week.

Diversity and festivities

“It is wonderful to see the diversity and the quality of the films offered,” insists Richard Patry.

It's going to be a party in theaters for all genres of cinema!

I know that was missed by many spectators that we expect in irreproachable security conditions.

We take the pandemic seriously ”.

Let us hope that she does not come to invite herself to the festivities.

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