Mathieu Kassovitz at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. -
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While operators navigate between anger and incomprehension following the announcement by Jean Castex on Thursday that cultural venues would remain closed at least until January 7, 2021, the filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz was invited to react on the 22H Max set. on BFM TV.
The director of the cult film
La Haine
believes that cinemas are "absolutely not essential in the situation in which we are", and denounces "a form of misplaced ego".
“You have TV, you can watch movies at home,” he puts into perspective, adding that “cinema is no longer essential as it once was”.
"Cinemas are doomed to disappear"
For the director, “the future of cinema, unfortunately, is no longer there.
It is like fighting so that an animal species does not disappear.
(...) The cinemas are doomed to disappear and there, it's just an accelerator.
There are a lot of cinemas that will no longer be there at the start of the school year, a lot of cinema owners who will have to sell ”
And to add: "Cinema will evolve, as society evolves, but the most important thing is to see how we will get out of that".
Mathieu Kassovitz believes that if the government reopened cinemas and other cultural places now, "they would be blamed."
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