Underground cineasts come forward

The group who built the secret cinema-restaurant-bar complex underneath Paris has met with the Guardian reporter who broke the story.

Huddled round a table in an anonymous Latin Quarter bar, the group’s members - of whom only Lazar wanted to be named - relate past exploits: rock concerts for up to 4,000 people in old underground quarries; 2am projections in a locked film theatre; art and photo exhibitions in supposedly sealed-off subterranean galleries.