On Wednesday, the government again loosened the screw by allowing theaters, cinemas or other cultural establishments to remain open until 11 p.m., the new curfew hours.
The actor Charles Berling returns to Europe 1 on the seven months of closure which preceded the deconfinement.
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For almost a month now theaters, cinemas, museums and other cultural venues have come back to life.
Even if the gauges are still limited, the public is responding.
For the actor and director of the Liberté theater in Toulon Charles Berling, the closure that these establishments had to face was "disproportionate".
He was the Sunday morning guest of Europe 1.
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"The reaction of our policies today, in particular of the Castex government, is for me disproportionate compared to what it was possible to do", advance the actor Charles Berling at the microphone of Europe 1 retrospectively facing the crisis of the coronavirus.
For him, cultural establishments are "an absolutely essential complement" to smartphone and television screens.
The actor speaks of "missed opportunities" during this last confinement: "for a Parisian, to go to the Louvre in an extremely respectful way of health standards would have been the occasion to be finally alone in front of the Mona Lisa".
Culture has paid "too much"
During this last year punctuated by three confinements, cultural places remained closed for almost ten discontinuous months.
A price "too expensive" for the sector, according to Charles Berling.
The director of the Liberté theater in Toulon insists that the platforms have taken up too much space during the closures.
"These are flows of leisure more than culture or art," said the actor.
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"Through the Covid, I felt the great fragility of this cultural network that comes to us from the post-war period with people like Malraux, people who were convinced that culture was a common good necessary for the population and for a civilization ", supposes the director of the Liberté theater. Charles Berling calls for restoring the image of culture and realizing its importance. "It is not a small question, it is something foundational between us", concludes the actor.