At the Dulac cinemas, a deleterious climate

A page is turning at Reflet Médicis, the iconic art-house cinema on rue Champollion in Paris ( ^5th arrondissement). Jean-Marc Zekri, its director since 2007, was fired by Sophie Dulac, head of the Dulac Cinéma network founded in 2001, comprising five establishments employing around thirty people - in addition to the "Reflet", L'Arlequin ( ^6th ), the Majestic Bastille ( ^11th ), the Escurial ( ^13th ) and the Majestic Passy ( ^16th ). Sophie Dulac, 67, a film producer and distributor, heiress and granddaughter of Publicis founder Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906-1996), also created the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, the ^14th edition of which will take place from June 17 to 23 in Paris.

Jean-Marc Zekri will leave his post on July 9. The ouster of the forty-year-old, who made Le Reflet a showcase, a meeting place for film buffs in search of rare works, has aroused incomprehension among his colleagues. He is notably criticized for having, beyond his working hours, organized a meeting with a speaker. Furthermore, one of his colleagues allegedly came to work with his dog, which allegedly attacked a spectator and defecated on the carpet. Another time, the cinema's alarm was allegedly not activated at night.

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