Chapter 476

Last year, Jia Zhangke won the Golden Lion Award at last year's Venice Film Festival because Jia Zhangke's "good people in the Three Gorges" was released at the same time as the "golden armour all over the city". Zhang Weiping once said that there was "fishy" between Jia Zhangke and the chairman of the jury. This time, the Venice Film Festival ignored the past, The disagreement between Venice Film Festival and Zhang Yimou was resolved in a special way, that is, Zhang Guoshi was invited to be the chairman of the selection panel.

Zhang Yimou also gave face. This year's Venice Film Festival will open on August 29. Although he has been busy preparing for the opening ceremony of the Yanjing Olympic Games, Zhang Yimou successfully "asked for leave" after coordination with the Olympic Organizing Committee. His trip to Venice will last more than ten days.

Zhang Yimou and his old lover Gong Li seem to have an indescribable film fate. In 2000, Gong Li became the chairman of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival, which made it the "first time" for Chinese filmmakers to sit as the chairman of the jury of the three major international film festivals in Europe. In that year, my father and mother won the Silver Bear award, a jury award, two years later, Gong Li was invited to become the chairman of the jury of the Venice Film Festival, and Zhang Yimou, who has won three important awards of the International Film Festival, is the first chairman of the jury of the Venice Film Festival this year.

Zhang Guoshi's trip was very busy. As soon as he got off the plane, he went straight to the hotel on Lido island. As soon as he sat down, he received a phone call from his old friend Muller: "Zhang! I need your help." Muller has stayed in China for more than ten years and married a local wife. His Mandarin is more slippery than Zhang Yimou and has no accent at all.

Zhang Guoshi frowned and said, "what happened? My old friend?"

Muller said, "I'll wait for you in the old place..."

Venice seems to have always been a blessed place for Chinese. The success of the detective at the last minute is a "surprise" for Venice, and it is also a joy for Chinese films to be shortlisted one after another. Looking at the four films, they have different styles, but they also just summarize the height that Chinese films can reach on the two roads of art and commerce. First, regardless of the ambiguous historical relationship between Chinese films and Venice Film Festival, The names behind these films are still proud.

Although mark Muller, the president of the film festival, insisted that all the finalists won the favor of the organizing committee with their "originality and personalization", it is an indisputable fact that Hollywood leading stars stormed Venice, which has always been known as "artistic persistence". Mark Muller is suspected of turning Venice into a flashy vanity fair, and the Hollywood Legion has a prosperous lineup, The mainstream include Oscar rated Paul Haggis, mark Wang and George Clooney. Wes Anderson, who is rooted in the independent film circle and popular with Europeans, continues to carry forward his absurd and gorgeous style.

Whether it has a close relationship with Chinese films or a complex interest relationship with Hollywood, the Venice Film Festival still needs films worthy of the word "pure art" to be worthy of the artistic reputation accumulated over the years. Therefore, veterans with one or another genre and style lineage came out again. Two remaining spokesmen of the new wave, houmai and Chabrol, Appeared in the competition circle and the master exhibition circle respectively, which was more exciting than expected; Ken roach and Peter Greenaway, who represent the evils of realism and post classical romance, are also popular at the three major film festivals.

Today's Venice Film Festival is actually very tense. Under the pressure of Rome and Toronto, Marco Muller tried his best to seek deeper depth this year. Marco Muller invited many Temple level directors to show their new works here.

In the European Film Festival, it is obvious that Venice and the Chinese are the most cordial and ambiguous. Since the 1990s, directors from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan have come here to occupy the top of the mountain and become famous. This time, the four King Kong like teachers meet in Venice to hunt the golden lion.

Oliveira, 100, showed her new work, Hou Mai, 88, came to the competition again, and Woody Allen and Lin Quanze, national treasure directors of New York and South Korea, didn't forget to join the fun.

From Tim Burton's hairstyle, Takeshi Kitano's face, and Miki Chongshi's evil and nausea, their films are always unexpected and exude strange charm. Venice concentrated on bringing together evil classic films this year, which is very expected.

Each film festival has its own selection interest and corresponding characteristics. Compared with the commercial nature of Cannes and the political nature of Berlin, Venice is generally emphasized. It pays more attention to the artistry of films. In fact, this simple induction and analogy can not reflect the characteristics of the three major film festivals. Venice pays more attention to plain narration, the style of listening to thunder in silence and the form of national expression, Such a context can be seen from the list of awards in recent years.

Venice Film Festival has a special preference for those films with national and regional characteristics. The Indian film Monsoon Wedding Banquet, which won the Golden Lion Award in 2001, does not have much depth in love description, but it shows the conflict and integration of opposite elements such as love and morality, tradition and modernity, nobility and civilians with the help of a wedding banquet scene with national characteristics. The Chinese film "good man in the Three Gorges", which won the Golden Lion Award last year, also clearly reflects the interest of the Venice Film Festival. More interestingly, Zhang Yimou's two Golden Lion award winning films "Qiuju lawsuit" and "no less" also belong to the same style type of "soil gets dregs". The outer packaging of the two films are branded with the realistic folk customs of China.

Since it focuses on folk customs, Venice does not pursue Huang Zhong Da Lu, but prefers the flavor of thin horses in the west wind of the ancient road. It is easy to get Venice's approval for being simple, ordinary and desolate. The brothel sisters, which won the Golden Lion Award in 2002, shows the stories of the girls in the Irish asylum. It outlines the fate of several girls in the gentle and plain narration, Instead of showing the conflict of characters. Vera Drake, the best film of the 2004 Golden Lion Award, focuses on the daily life of a woman who secretly engages in abortion, and then makes a sharp turn from the plain narrative to highlight the turning point of the character's destiny.

Among the films in this competition, Chinese films account for four. It is certain that Li Kangsheng's help me, God of love and Du Qifeng's detective are not likely to win awards. Jiang Wen's sun also rises and Ang Lee's Lust Caution are likely to appear in the list of awards.

The United States has participated in eight films. According to past practice, their main role is to attract traffic. Venice may not make an exception to let Hollywood films win awards. At most, it will give Hollywood some comfort in some ancillary awards. On this point, Venice's position is more firm than Cannes, but the emergence of the mark gang has changed all this.

But there are two British films - this is a free world, which shows the story of two immigrant girls, and Atonement, which takes people and war as the background. Chaos by Egyptian director Youssef Shain may come out in the cold because of his national characteristics.

Two French films, the old director houmai's love between Astley and serrado and seeds and mules, have little hope. Italy's "peak moment" and "sweet and bitter" are more like the "participation" matrix of European films, because Italian films can't get the favor of Venice, which is also the reason why Italians are unhappy with the Venice International Film Festival and turn to the Rome Film Festival.

The film 12 angry men brought by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov lacks new ideas in subject matter, and it is difficult to hope to be included in the grand prize. The commercialization of "Night Tour" in Germany is too strong, and the plot is the same as that of "Da Vinci Code". There is no precedent for detective films to win awards at the Venice Film Festival. Spain's in Sylvia tells the story of a man returning to Strasbourg, France, trying to find the woman he met four years ago, but the director aimed the camera at foreign countries, which is contrary to the folk tradition of Venice. Japanese director Takashi Miike's "Shou Xi burn western film" is the grafting of Western and Japanese style violence. The local flavor is slightly inferior, winning the prize and lacking in strength.

From the above analysis, the main popular awards of this film festival are likely to be born from no country for old people, this is a free world, atonement, chaos, the sun also rises and Lust Caution.

After attending the red carpet show of the opening ceremony, mark went home in Gulfstream v. to be honest, there are black in this romantic capital and beautiful women from all over the world. Giselle still doesn't trust mark here, so she is very happy that mark is busy returning to Chicago to shoot the dark knight.

Little Martin can almost walk. Both mark and Giselle are very happy and proud. Mark doesn't forget to teach little Martin to walk on the plane. The nature of his work is destined to spend less time at home. If he can spend more time with his family, he can spend more time with his family.

As for Mark's private life, it's actually very rich. It's not reduced to hunting pigs at the film festival. Several of his lovers are eyeing him. As long as Giselle is not around him, they will rush up. They know each other's existence, compete and form a tacit understanding. They don't let other people enter the club. Anderson, the bodyguard captain, More is to arrange his date with his lover and provide confidentiality, which makes the special forces commando captain feel ashamed. In the past, he used to defend the country, protect dignitaries, rescue hostages and crack down on terrorists. Now he is mixed with pimps. If his life is not very bright now, at least on the surface, he can't meet his old comrades in arms.

Now Anderson is a talented person with face in front of his old comrades in arms and friends. When his old comrades in arms come to Los Angeles, he will arrange a party, provide holiday packages and want to take pictures with stars.

Mark is now satisfied. He has made so much money, created such a big family business, repaid huge debts, lived such a luxurious life, and Scarlett's production is imminent. All these make him happy to flow out.