Letters

Where are the cinema goers?

Having a cinema to themselves felt weird

Thu Sept 22 2022 - 00:04

Sir, – Tom McElligott writing on cinema attendance in Kerry (Letters, September 21st) urges me to relay my own cinematic experience last Sunday when my spouse and I decided to go see Róise & Frank, an Irish produced film, at the Pálás Cinema in Galway.

Looking forward to sitting in a theatre with fellow cinephiles we found ourselves in an eerily completely empty cinema for the entire length of the film.

I oddly found myself missing the latecomers, the smell of popcorn, the coughing, the children crying, the rustling and even the guy who laughs when there’s nothing whatsoever to laugh about.

– Yours, etc,

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MARY WILKINSON,

Barna,

Galway.