“What pisses me off is not only the false promise, but being taken hostage and being talked to like 12-year-old kids! That’s enough!” Actor and director Gilles Lellouche is against the government after the decision announced Thursday, December 10 by Prime Minister Jean Castex, to keep places of culture closed for at least three additional weeks. “January 7 is a review clause, not a reopening date,” insisted Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot, the day after this announcement.
The disappointment is great for culture, as cinemas, theaters and museums were prepared to reopen this Tuesday, December 15. The actor and director, like all cultural actors, thought this date acquired after the statements of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, at the end of November, detailing a deconfinement by stages.
“Scottish shower”
“The period is so dark, so dark, that we cling to all the positive signals. We were told that the theaters were going to reopen on December 15. To tell us the opposite five days before, is unacceptable! Gilles Lellouche. Even if there was no certainty of reopening the cinemas, it was a Scottish shower. “
The actor does not take offense: “Shopping centers have the right to receive people by the thousands, who touch clothes, food. We, with respected and respectable sanitary conditions, we do not have the right to reopen ?! We walk on the head! Roselyne Bachelot must start working! “.
Culture is not a priority for the government and it is a tragedy.
Gilles Lellouche
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The Minister of Culture “is not stupid but she was not listened to”. And the consultation with the cinema industry did not take place. “Culture is not a priority for the government and it’s a tragedy, denounces Gilles Lellouche. We are in a society so withdrawn, we have been so used for months and months to look at platforms and internet, that it was beneficial to return to the theater, to the cinema, as it is beneficial to have collective experiences, to renew the dialogue. “
Gilles Lellouche, currently filming in Lithuania for Jérôme Salle’s next film, Kompromat, a thriller, returned to Paris to promote the highly anticipated North Bac by Cédric Jimenez, whose release scheduled for December 23 is postponed to a later date, due to the prolonged confinement of cultural places.
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“I’m angry. It’s irresponsible. It’s also a film industry. At some point, things are going to have to start again. We are going to have to live.”
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