cinema odyssey

as most of you know very well, i adore going to the movies:) everywhere i am, i try to find a movie theatre. so from the very begging i was trying to trace down one here. and this is my story...:)

...there are no cinemas in calavi
...there are 3 in cotonou: benin, concord and some other
...cinema benin is no longer a cinema, it's a church for some popumlar sect
...cinema concord shows only a few movies weekly, hard to find out when exactly
...nobody knows anything about the third cinema...
...hope! there're "salles video" - private rooms with a tv, showing a few movies daily, entrance at less than 20cents
...there's one at a marketplace close to our's place!
...first tryout: meike and me went to the salle video, liked the movie, entered, were greeted traditionally by the family with water, waited and waited because the electricity was out (as usuall) in the whole zone, waited... and went home without watching a single second of a movie:/
...second tryout: as above, the electricity was there this time. we were seated on a bench in a tiny, provisoric shed. the video cd kept breaking down but finally we've changed the movie and the other one worked. the movie was a bollywood fantastic thriller. we left before the end...