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Is French cinema in danger?
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The year 2021 was marked by a sharp drop in cinema attendance (-55% compared to 2019).
AFP - SEBASTIEN BOZON
By: Romain Auzouy
1 min
While the Cannes Film Festival is currently taking place, the figures for French cinema hardly lend themselves to optimism.
Indeed, the year 2021 was marked by a sharp drop in attendance at dark rooms (-55% compared to 2019).
And the first trends of 2022 are not heading towards an improvement in the situation.
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However, the offer is prolific, with a dozen new films offered on average each week.
But the threats are multiple, first and foremost streaming platforms that are capturing an increasingly large audience.
How can cinema deal with it?
How to reverse the trend?
To discuss:
Laurent Creton,
professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, specialist in film economics, author in particular of the book
Economie du cinema.
Strategic perspectives
(reissue Armand Colin 2020).
Guillaume Bachy,
vice-president of the French Association of Art and Essay Cinemas (AFCAE) and director of the Le Palais cinema in Créteil.
Edouard Mauriat,
feature film president of the Syndicat des Producteurs Indépendants (SPI) and producer at Mille et une Productions.
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