Sunday 6 February 2011

Gaumont Rennes

Depuis cinema

Films: Shrek Forever After (2010), Tamara Drewe (2010)

Screens: 13  Ticket price: 11.80€

OK, time to get hypocritical -- retroactively or otherwise.  Despite roundly booing Gaumont's decision to set up shop right over the road from the Cineville (see above post) I did go there twice during my Rennes stay. And despite the rather pricey admission charge (which went even further north when you paid out for the 3D supplement and glasses for Shrek 4) there isn't an awful lot to complain about here.  It's a very slick cinema with friendly staff, comfortable seats and excellent presentation of films.  The movies we saw were both in their original English with French subs, and the 13 screens mean they can afford to sprinkle such relatively minority screenings among the expected indigenous and dubbed French-language stuff.  Combined with the nearby Cineville it means you have a mind-boggling 19 screens to choose from if you're in this part of the city, although inevitably some overlap in programming does occur.  But this place is not at all bad for an establishment run by The Man.   

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