In France, cinemas have been closed for several months.

While VOD platforms seem to recover part of their audience, the general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, declares to have "want to cry out and be enraged against those who announce the death of cinema", Sunday on Europe 1 .

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Apart from a few die-hards this weekend, cinemas have not shown films for several months in France.

At the same time, on-demand VOD platforms are seeing a great appetite from the public for their services.

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En balade avec

, the program of Pascale Clark Sunday on Europe 1, the general delegate of the Festival de Cannes and director of the Lumière Institute in Lyon, Thierry Frémaux, says he "wants to cry out and be enraged against those who announce the death of cinema ".

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"People are obviously going to come back to theaters"

He assures us that it is not because he is "against platforms", because he "thinks that we can do both" in good complementarity.

But good because he is "convinced, as it happened last summer and in the fall, that people will obviously come back to theaters" as soon as possible.

"They're even waiting for that!"

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For the moment, Thierry Frémaux is rather patient and does not seem to want to waste his energy in railing against the restrictions imposed by the government to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic.

"I'm not going to roll on the ground," he said.

"Rage, we have it. But against whom? Against what? Anyway, it's no use. Let's look to the future. As we speak, we still think [the reopening] should be soon. "

For the director of the Institut Lumière, looking to the future means preparing to "be strong for the recovery".

"What people will be going back to theaters for is not to see armchairs and screens. It's to see works."

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And Thierry Frémaux does not say he is worried about what the public will be able to see in the coming months.

"I see a lot of films before everyone else," he explains.

"We see very, very, beautiful things, French cinema in particular."