
There are films that you only need to watch once to remember them forever. Settings, storylines, and characters that stick with you regardless of time, as if they weren't simply part of a fictional plot you have, up until that very point, never heard of before, but a searing retelling of events, a relationship, or even just a feeling, that have shaken up your life.
Reopened in October after a nine-month restoration, Paris's Élysées Lincoln cinema is a legendary yet discreet, family-owned address which, since 1969, has lured culture-discerning Parisians and curious passersby alike into its velvety salles de cinéma.