MEXICO CITY – The few, the brave, were the other people who returned to cinemas in Mexico City this week and who had been closed for 4 months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Yes, there’s popcorn. But the filmmakers had to wear a mask and could only lift them for eating or drinking. And their temperatures were controlled at the entrance. They also had to walk on a disinfectant rug.
The appointments were good, but still to sit with an organization of friends: no more than two people were allowed to sit together, as long as they were surrounded by empty seats.
The theatres of the capital were allowed to open only 30% of their capacity, entire rows blocked with yellow ribbon, but despite this, there is no festival for the most productive seats.
On an IMAX screen in Mexico City, about a dozen consumers performed Wednesday, but with technical problems with a delayed projector the scheduled screening of the 2014 zone drama “Interstellar”.
“It’s wonderful to be able to come back,” Mora said. “For me, watching a movie in a movie theater is the most productive way to watch it.”
With new movie releases behind through global crashes and cinemas struggling to showcase anything, the pandemic has at least brought back the classics.
Antonio Alamillo, 47, manager of a bakery, and Nélida Cartujano, 42, teacher, came here to see James Dean’s 1955 vintage “Rebel Without a Cause”.
“I’m here the last day the theaters opened and here I am the first day they reopened,” Alamillo said. “I can’t live without the movies.”
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Mexico is the fourth largest film market in the world, after China, India and the United States. In terms of revenue, Mexico ranked ninth, with a priced ticket sales value of approximately $850 million in 2019. The country has low price ticket prices.
But the film board, Canacine, estimates that Mexican cinemas lost about 152 million tickets sold with the close, which lasted from March 25 to August 10. At least a dozen theaters across the country have announced its permanent closure.
Mexican Secretary of Culture Alejandra Frausto at one of the first screenings at the Cineteca Nacional complex in Mexico City.
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“A moment like this, the back to the cinema, looked like Array,” Frausto said. “But that’s exactly what art does, make it possible.”
Mexico surpassed the mark of half a million coronavirus cases on Thursday. The Department of Health has reported 7,371 new cases, bringing the total to 505,751 to date. The branch reported 627 more deaths shown through COVID-19, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 55,293 deaths.