The American French Film Festival opened Monday in Hollywood, marked by concerns over the sharp drop in theatre attendance in France and the United States since the pandemic.
"There's no hiding the fact: cinema is experiencing a real upheaval," director Jean-Jacques Annaud told AFP at the 26th edition of the festival intended to show Hollywood the best of French productions.
Ultimately,"there is a whole category of so-called intermediate films which risk no longer having their place on the big screen," he said.In the United States, about 500 theatres have closed since the pandemic according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. In France, attendance had its worst September since 1980, according to the latest figures from the National Center for Cinema, with ticket sales down 34 percent compared to September 2019, before the pandemic.
"We have to go find our audience," she added."The emotion we have in a movie theatre will never be the same as in front of a TV or a telephone."
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