In an official statementNational Filmmakers Association And Carlo Lizzani Award considers the closure of the historic Odeon Cinema a few days ago in Milan “extremely serious” and expresses “the most absolute disagreement with the lack of response (with a few rare exceptions) from the sector and the institution.”
“It is unacceptable that Milan, the city in which the post-Brexit period has been the focus of major capital investments that revived entrepreneurship, trade, construction and finance, remains indifferent to the loss of the place of culture, art and entertainment,” the document says. press release and ready to give up one of the most representative monuments of Italian Art Nouveau after seeing it transformed into yet another shopping center just around the corner from the Duomo. In a city where the opera has its maximum celebration in an internationally recognized emblematic place such as La Scala, the Odeon, built in 1929, should fulfill the same function for the seventh art, becoming the most magnificent home of European cinema.”
“In addition to EU funds, additional resources to save the Odeon, which has seen the parade of world stars on the red carpet, such as Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, should be allocated by creating a fund to support historic halls in a difficult position, receiving resources from the targeted tax that platforms are subject to. concludes the press release. “The upheavals caused by new players in the distribution and operating system will essentially require compensatory forms aimed at screens that represented the 20th century.”