Bring back the intermission

Sir, – Further to recent correspondence (Letters, August 11th), in Switzerland there has always been an intermission halfway through a movie, the reason being that smoking was never allowed in the cinema. So smokers were given time for a cigarette and others got goodies and stretched their legs.

Watching Oppenheimer this week, an interval was most welcome. – Yours, etc,

ROSI O’SULLIVAN,

Dalkey,

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