Argentina - January 16, 2025 The Argentine filmmaker and Oscar winner Juan José Campanella, stated in an interview with EFE that the problem with cinema is “its death and agony” due to the lack of audience in theaters, and he attributes it to “the social tendency towards isolation.” Camera: JULIETA BARRERA. STATEMENTS BY JUAN JOSÉ CAMPANELLA, ARGENTINE FILMMAKER: I prefer not to talk about politics. It's been a year since the general elections that I promised my family and my partners that, besides, I wanted to live a little more quietly. Cinema obviously has a much more serious problem, which we are not talking about here, which is its death. Its death and agony all over the world, the movie theaters in debt because people do not go, the movies that nobody goes to see more than once, because at most if they have the courage to go to see it once, the second time they watch it on television. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]