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In a column published in the newspaper
Le Monde
, film professionals demand the reopening of theaters.
The text was signed by more than 800 people, including big names such as Jacques Audiard, Valérie Donzelli, Pierre Niney and Léa Seydoux.
Inside, they challenge the government and recall that 2,046 cinemas, or 5,913 screens, remain closed.
This open letter explains that this decision was however contradicted by an opinion of the Scientific Council of October 26 as well as by the ComCor study of the Institut Pasteur, published on December 10.
A future that worries
The signatories also regret that it is possible to "queue up to buy sneakers or ice cream, pile up in supermarkets or take the train, even when crowded" while the cinemas remain closed.
"The nightmare that the cinema industry, its workers, is living, is not so much that of the year 2020, certainly extremely difficult, but indeed that of the two or even three years to come", they relate.
The tribune recalls that the cinema industry employs no less than 340,000 people.
"Your government is killing French cinema", assure the signatories.
For them, no “theater, place of culture or cinema has been a source of contamination”.
The artists invite the government to read a German study by the Hermann-Rietschel Institute, published on February 19, which indicates that "cinemas are twice as safe as supermarkets and three times safer than train travel. ".
The complete list of signatories can be found on the SFR (Société des Réalisateurs de Films) website.
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