Paolo Ferretti, the cinema’s manager, said 2017 was a slow one for the Italian film industry, but foreign films kept attendance at sustainable levels.
And there is still a strong band of avid cinema fans who refuse to cave in to the likes of Netflix.
Another factor affecting cinema and viewing habits in the 1990s was the arrival of Silvio Berlusconi on the political scene.
“But Italians don’t see that reflection any more in films, it’s almost as if this love affair with our own image has been broken.”
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