Sinking back into a socially-distanced leather seat at a safe distance from other customers and having to slip off your mask to tuck into the popcorn: going to the pictures is certainly different post-lockdown.
At the Vue cinema in the Westfield shopping centre in west London, film fans are greeted by a masked staff member and ushered towards a hand-sanitiser.
The usual bustle is absent, but there's still a crackle of excitement in the air over Tenet, Christopher Nolan's impenetrable timewarp action movie, the first postpandemic blockbuster.
Tim Richards, 61, the Canadianborn founder of the Vue International chain, has seen the film several times and admits he still doesn't understand it.
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