Coronavirus: Cinemas want to brave the closure to protest against health measures (Illustration) -
Camille Allain / 20 Minutes
Twenty cinemas in France plan to “show films” to the public this weekend, a “symbolic action” to protest against the closing of theaters due to the health crisis linked to Covid-19, announced two professional associations on Thursday .
Movie theaters closed for the first time a year ago.
They reopened only between the two confinements and have a total of more than 240 days of closure, recall the National Group of Research Cinemas (GNCR) and Acid (Association of independent cinema for its distribution).
“Complementary” actions to theater occupations
"We are all tired of living with ersatz (culture), there is this weariness, this sadness, this lack" of cinemas, said director Clément Schneider, co-president of Acid.
The actions of this weekend, "completely complementary" to the theater occupations which are multiplying in France, should make it possible to denounce "the stubborn refusal of the government to reopen places of culture", he added.
These actions, the details of which are kept confidential, must be organized "in the strictest respect of a widely tested health protocol," said the organizers.
For its part, the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF) had asked at the beginning of the week its members to be heard on the occasion of the first anniversary of the closing of theaters, between the Césars ceremony on Friday and Sunday.
“Between June 22 and October 30 (2020), 27 million admissions were made in France without any cluster having declared itself”, recalls the FNCF, which also underlines that “300 to 400 films await the reopening rooms to go out and that this figure grows every week ”.
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