SoundPortrait
The people keeping Paris dancing at 6am
They book hundred-capacity rooms, do not live off music, and hold up the Paris electronic scene on their own. Three nights with the collectives refusing to choose between rigour and joy.
Marilyse
Does arthouse cinema still have a twenty-year-old audience?
Empty rooms midweek, queues on Saturday night for a retrospective: the young audience has not vanished, it has changed rhythm.
Marilyse1 min
The claim comes back every year: young people are deserting cinemas. The figures say something more interesting.
They are not deserting, they are gathering
An ordinary Tuesday screening draws fifteen people. The same film, programmed as a retrospective on a Saturday, with an introduction and a drink afterwards, draws two hundred.
The film has not changed. What changed is everything placed around it.
The event against the catalogue
Against platforms offering everything, always, the cinema can no longer win on availability. It wins on what streaming will never do: a precise hour, a precise place, other people.
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