Movies

Due to an extremely long night out the night before, we decided to take it easy one night and head to the movies. We wanted to see In the Air with George Clooney, so like normal, we looked in the paper, found where it was playing and headed off to the theater. There are multiple theaters in Clermont, the biggest being the one in Place de Jaude, which is also where the mall is. We went to a smaller one though, and really had no idea what to expect. We used our student ids and paid 4 euro for tickets. 4 euro! Sweet! We then went in search of the concession stand just to see what it was like. We followed the signs and ended up at....a vending machine. Luckily, as a true American I had brough gummy bears and worms with me to the show. So we enter the theater and it is pretty nice, kind of like one of the smaller theaters where they show movies that have been out for a while in the States. We take our seats and the movie beings, in English, with French subtitles. As the movie progresses we realize that either American humor doesn't translate well, or the subtitles aren't clueing the audience in on the humor, or the French just don't laugh during movies. The Americans are laughing, while everyone else is dead silent. Kind of strange really. To boot, we have said gummy bears and worms and of course the packages aren't silent as we are passing them back and forth. I can only imagine the French in the theater were seriously having their American stereotypes reinforced while watching this movie with us.