Arromanches 360, Movie theater in Arromanches-les-Bains, France
Arromanches 360 is a circular movie theater in Arromanches-les-Bains, France. It shows a film about the Battle of Normandy on nine screens arranged in a ring, mixing wartime archive footage with present-day shots of the same places.
The cinema opened in 1994 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Normandy landings. It was built to show archive films from British, Canadian, German, American and French sources, and it remains the only circular cinema still running in the country.
The film is shown in a round room where the screens wrap around the audience, so the story unfolds on all sides at once. Local people often bring visitors here as a first stop, because it gives a clear picture of what happened along this coast before they walk down to the beach.
The cinema sits on the hill above the town, a short walk from the seafront and the remains of the artificial harbor. It is easy to find by following signs from the center, and the circular layout means you can stand or turn freely to follow the images.
The building sits on the same cliff where Allied forces set up a temporary harbor in 1944, and from the outside you can still see pieces of the old mulberry structure in the water below. The film uses no narration, letting the images and sounds speak for themselves.
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