The association cinema le Beauliau, in Bouguenais, near Nantes -

Cinema le Beaulieu

  • Closed for the first time a year ago, the cinemas celebrate this "sad anniversary" this weekend

  • Some will organize screenings while others meet their audience for symbolic actions

It is an exceptional session, which will bring together around forty privileged people, "while respecting distances and sanitary rules".

This weekend, somewhere in the Nantes metropolis, an associative cinema decided to relight its projectors despite the ban.

This confidential meeting (the team did not want us to communicate the location, for fear of crowds and possible penalties) should allow these enthusiasts to finally find, for barely 1h30, the comfort of the armchairs. and the darkness of a room.

The opportunity to celebrate, as many cinemas in the city and the country intend to do, a "sad anniversary": that of the first closure of cinemas, decided a year ago due to confinement.

In Bouguenais, the team of the associative cinema Le Beaulieu is also preparing to mobilize.

After nearly 240 days of closure, the structure and its 80 volunteers have only one wish: that the public come back.

This Saturday, she invites all her supporters to meet in front of the cinema, for a photo.

"We have a lot of messages, people need to come back," says director Elise Guignard.

We are ready to apply all the necessary measures to reopen.

If we need more distance, we will do it, even if our premises are large, ventilated, the spectators do not meet and do not touch anything.

Besides that, people are piling up in stores and transport ... It's completely inconsistent.

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A queue, "like in the good old days"

While the Minister of Culture has unveiled her goal of reopening cultural venues in the second quarter of 2021, the goal of this weekend is to increase the pressure and show that the wait is high.

Saturday afternoon, in front of the famous arthouse cinema Katorza, moviegoers are invited to gather to form a long queue outside, "like in the good old days".

The rest of the program for this "non-session" will be revealed on site.

In recent days, they have also started to publish large numbers of messages on the Facebook page of this place dear to Nantes.

“The Katorza was our getaway with the girls, writes for example Claire, a regular.

Warm in the dark room, we could go on a trip, be upset, turned around, warm our brains, cry and laugh, and go home with the feeling of having lived a parenthesis far from our daily life.

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At least welcome schools?

At the Lutétia in Saint-Herblain, which normally issues 30,000 tickets per year, we are also impatient.

Regularly, volunteers come to test the equipment and carry out maintenance operations in order to be ready for a possible green light.

Here, and this request is relayed by many cinemas, we would like to be able to at least find the school public, which sometimes represents a quarter or even a third of attendance.

"It seems urgent to us that at least schoolchildren, college students, high school students, can find the path of culture outside their establishments, writes for example the direction of the Cinematograph, in Nantes, which has printed a large count of the days of closure on its storefront.

Although many of us have continued to speak in schools, the place of culture is essential, before an entire generation is conditioned to the scale of a laptop screen, at best a television.

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