Yesterday, after many months, I watched a movie at the Cinema Quadrat, Mannheim.

The hall, tucked in a corner of a large office-cum residential complex, screens foreign-language art films. There are probably seventy to eighty seats in all, but I’ve never seen more than ten to fifteen people on any occasion I’ve been there.  Often people come alone.  A reminder that there still exist people who go to the movies to watch, not to socialize.



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