Photo of the crisis?: a block of queue to see a five-year-old movie for free in Cairo
Every Sunday at 6 p.m. the Cairo public cinema shows a film with free admission. This cultural proposal has been offered for many years, but in recent weeks the number of people attending this function has been growing slowly but surely. And this Sunday the phenomenon took another quantitative leap: at 5 p.m., when there was still almost an hour before the film began, more than a block of queue had already formed to enter. Photo of the crisis?
After 4 p.m. this Sunday, a line of people began to form along Santa Fe Street. Between talks and greetings with acquaintances, they waited for the doors of Cairo to open for the free movie screening, which is offered once a week.
The proposal for this Sunday was the movie “Pain and glory”from the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. It is a film released in 2019 and whose cast includes Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz and the Argentine Leonardo Sbaraglia.
When the clock marked a few minutes after 5 p.m., the line of people had already turned around Sarmiento, in the octave of the El Cairo bar, and continued to extend until around 6 p.m., when the film screening began.
The historic Cairo complex seeing becoming a meeting place and refuge of the old and new generations. The announcement of the death of the big screen does not seem to affect this movie theater, which has a large audience.
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Since its opening in 2009 as a public space, and until 2019, the Cairo provincial cinema had growing trends in which year after year the goals were met and even doubled, but that was cut short with the Covid-19 pandemic. But in recent months An adult audience, but also a youth audience began to frequent the room. Both are audiences that seek get away from the entertainment offerings of shopping centers.
