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Cinéma Colisée
Most of the Marrakesh International Film Festival events are held at this plush cinema, so that might be David Lynch's seat you're sitting in - no wonder the evening seems a little surreal. Women come here frequently, without being asked if they come here often.
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Cinéma Eden
You don't know how rowdy cinema can get until you've caught a romantic comedy with the all-male audience in this mud-brick movie house tiled with broken plates, plastered with Bollywood posters and carpeted with peanuts. As Juan Goytisolo explains in Cinema Eden: Essays from the Muslim Mediterranean , only films with happy endings are allowed here - the management prefers evenings here to be a laugh riot, rather than any other kind.
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Théâtre Royal
Twenty-five years in the making, the Théâtre Royal is a sore subject for Marrakshis still waiting for a completed interior - apparently the work wasn't done to specifications, the money's gone, and the whole legal ordeal's become a monumental embarrassment. Meanwhile regular performances are held in a Carthage-style outdoor amphitheatre with hard seats but terrific acoustics.
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