A couple nights ago we went to the Orange Cinema, an open-air movie theater on Lake Zurich that is set up for a month in the summer. A different film is shown every night, and tickets sell out far in advance. (Many thanks to Ali for hitting the ticket office the day they went on sale. She’s still not over the fact that the Miami Vice night was already sold out…).
Seating is first-come first-served, a clever ploy to get the audience to arrive hours in advance and buy food and drinks from the vendors inside the gates. Luckily one of the vendors was Hiltl, making me not mind this early arrival time at all. With our (CHF 22) admissions tickets we also got free packaged ice cream cones, which we only realized after my husband went out to find ‘real’ ice cream somewhere else (not that this stopped him from eating the free stuff, too).
Right before the movie was scheduled to start, the giant screen rose up from its reclining position to stand on two stilts out in the lake. The setting was gorgeous, with the lake and the lights from the houses on the far shore in the background. Not a bad way to spend a summer night.
The Orange Cinema is all but sold out for the rest of the summer, but if you’re going to be in Zurich next summer, I definitely recommend checking it out.
What was the movie?
Paris je t’aime
18 short films set in Paris all done by different directors. I liked it.
oh, i want to see that one!
the last open air cinema in geneva was the sequel “too fast, too furious”, not worth going to see we figured.