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Lorraine North. ”Coronavirus”, the bad film of independent cinemas

It’s a disaster scenario that fell on them without warning. The pitch? A virus sweeping the world. That of 7e art does not escape the wave. In March 2020, France entered its first confinement. We lower the curtain on non-essential places. Cinemas are on the list. “The previous year, in 2019, we had counted 13,000 entries, remembers Jean-Michel Lavanoux. In 2020, this figure fell to 4,480.” The director of the MJC who manages the Casino de Jœuf cinema sighs. He is not the only one.

“The relationship to the image has changed”

His close collaborators, Jacky Carraro, operations manager, and Christian Wroel, in charge of the establishment’s Art and Essay programming, confirm it: the Casino has suffered. “Like all the other cinemas, specifies Jacky Carraro. What has hurt us a lot, beyond the periods of…

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