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Cinema prices cut for festival
Catch today’s hits for just €4 as part of the Fête du Cinéma and perhaps win a prize
ENJOY a night – or an afternoon – at the cinema this weekend for just €4 a ticket with the Fête du Cinéma which runs from Sunday until Wednesday, July 1.
You may get a chance to see Jurassic World, ice hockey film Inside Out (called Vice-Versa in France), Mad Max: Fury Road, Shaun the Sheep (called, you guessed, Shaun Le Mouton), Far from the Madding Crowd (called Loin de la foule déchaînée), Beach Boys film Love & Mercy or sci-fi thriller Ex Machina.
All will cost just €4 at participating cinemas, although films in 3D or special showings may be dearer.
The cheap-ticket festival is timed to cover two “film weeks” with cinemas changing their programmes on Wednesdays, the last day of the event – giving cinema-goers the chance to see two films for roughly the price of one.
Many films in French cinemas are in English – especially the blockbusters – and these are marked with “VO” in the programme: but German or Indian-made films will still be in German or Indian if marked VO.
BNP Paribas customers get a better deal as it has extended the cheap deal from July 2 to July 8 if clients go to its website at mabanque.bnpparibas or its Facebook page.
Every cinema-goer will get a chance to win prizes ranging from a chance to climb the steps at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, a year of free cinema or tour the Warner Bros studio in London as each will be given a scratchcard with a unique number to be checked on the www.feteducinema.com site.
Find a participating cinema on the same site, www.feteducinema.com and get a taste of Jurassic World in this (in French) trailer click through after the advertisement.