Deconfinement: cinemas reopen in France

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An empty cinema hall in Mulhouse, October 29, 2020. (Photo illustration) AFP - SEBASTIEN BOZON

By: Angélique Férat

4 min

They had been closed since October 30 because of the Covid-19, 201 days continuously.

Cinemas have six months of films to catch up on Wednesday.

Their reopening is of course accompanied by sanitary measures - compulsory mask, no popcorn or ice cream in the rooms, distance between the spectators - but the public and the managers of the rooms are ready.

Example in the Alsatian capital, Strasbourg.

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