Foreigners, who usually represent 60% of admissions, will be much less numerous this summer.

This is a significant loss of earnings, but also the opportunity to meet curious people from France.

Laurence des Cars, the president of the museum, wants to be optimistic in any case.

The cinemas are full - much more than expected.

The spectators are delighted, the distributors a little less, because the films are scrambling to make their theatrical release: about twenty-five per week, instead of ten usually.

We also take you to the theater, in the effervescence of the final preparations and the final rehearsals.

Stage fright is making a comeback for artists ... but for some it is a much duller day: with the gauge at 35% of maximum capacity, it is not profitable to reopen.

>> See also: Nicolas Maury: "The future of cinema is not cinema in the living room"

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