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All too brief a documentary by the director Guy Gilles, and just in this short poem of a film I could see a poet of the cinema at work. His voice is heard as he recounts the loss of local cinemas in Paris, and the sight of this loss and the fragments of posters on desolate walls outside one specific cinema brought tears to my eyes. The abandoned cinema was about to be converted into a garage, and his filming in black and white evoked memories of the many films of the past not made in colour and in 1965 when this documentary was made colour was almost a necessity in the larger cinemas in Paris. All of this is seen through a teenage youth's eyes, and I realised this was Guy Gilles recalling his own former years and the attachment he had to such lost places of ordinary cinematic entertainment. To be found on YouTube, and I hope like me viewers will want to hunt down more of this poet of the cinema's work. The youth in the film is Patrick Jouane. I believe he is in other films by this extraordinary director.