After a fleeting reopening in April that lasted only 15 days, the San Luis cinemas return to their activity with the expectation of maintaining their functions over time. The long-awaited “Cruella” and the horror “Pray for us” make up the billboard with which Cinemacenter will once again welcome viewers.
Tickets went on sale in the middle of last week, the same day that the provincial government announced that it would enable a series of cultural activities from today, including cinemas. “As soon as we found out, we began to recondition the rooms and adapt the protocols,” announced Mercedes Condorí, manager of Cinemacenter San Luis.
The only difference established between the first reopening and the current one in terms of health protocols is the amount of public allowed. Now there will be a maximum of 30 percent of the capacity of the rooms.
Condorí said she was very anxious about the return and was enthusiastic about the vaccination rhythm that the province is carrying out, a situation that, she supposes, will make it possible for people to attend the functions to be distracted after so long.
One of the measures implemented by the cinema to avoid the gathering of people in the shopping corridors is the online sale of tickets, which has been available from last week until minutes before the first show for today’s two premieres. The billboard with “Cruella” and “Pray for us” will continue until Wednesday, and on Thursday a new edition of “The Conjuring” will be added, which awakens many promises among programmers.
“For that movie, the tickets are also already on sale,” said Mercedes.
Already released on streaming platforms, but not yet on the screen and with the quality offered by cinemas, “Cruella” is possibly the highest grossing film of the first half of the year, to the point that the studios that filmed it are already thinking in making the sequel.
The film that the people of San Luis will see from today in the cinema is set in London in the 70s, with the punk movement on the boil, and shows the first steps of who would later become a villain recognized for his evil. That is why “Cruella” has a different approach than its film versions.
She is still a somewhat innocent young woman, an orphan and dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
In the story, “Cruella” is not yet obsessed with making a Dalmatian dog fur coat, but the true villain of the story is Baroness Von Hellman, an unscrupulous queen of fashion with whom she will fight a duel with all or nothing.
The other production that will be seen in the first half of the week, with the possibility of continuing until at least next Thursday, is “Pray for us”, a religious horror film that has an argument that is centered on the fake news.
The story is that of a girl with hearing problems who, after a vision of the Virgin Mary, regains hearing and speech, and adds the ability to heal. From there to a succession of terrifying deaths there will be only one step.
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