“At Macumba, she dances every evening…”. The famous nightclub chain which inspired Jean-Pierre Mader for his title in the 1980s will soon no longer have any establishments open. The Macumba d'Englos, near Lille, was the last one still in operation – of the twenty-three that existed throughout France – and will close on February 23, reports The Voice of the North.
On social networks, the announcement of the closure caused a lot of reaction. “It’s the end of an era,” commented several Internet users under the establishment’s Facebook post.
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-The nightclub, which opened in November 1975, has a capacity of more than 1,000 people, with two rooms and two different atmospheres for 1,500 meters of dance floors.
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As France 3 recalls, the Macumba d'Englos had served as a filming location for Henri Verneuil's film, The Body of My Enemywith Jean-Paul Belmondo. It also appears as a setting in Love phew by Gilles Lellouche, released in 2024, with Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil.
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