Chapter 1294

After Andy left, Langley didn't start working immediately. After lying on the balcony and enjoying an afternoon's sunbathing, night finally began to get busy.

Langley and Ryan joined up to attend a private party held by the chairman of Cannes Film Festival, Giles Jacobs, before the official opening. All the judges of the main competition unit and a kind of attention unit attended the party. In addition, all the cast members and celebrities who arrived in Cannes in advance were also invited.

On the party, there are all kinds of flowers, and lanli is also one of the important focuses.

The most interesting moment is the meeting of the "troika". The three actors, Lanley hall, Ryan Gosling and Leonardo DiCaprio, are known as the most popular Troika in this year's Cannes Film Festival. Not only fans and journalists, but also European film people are full of interest and curiosity.

Of course, there is also tieri Fumao, who can not be ignored.

Make complaints about the final selection and authority of the film festival in Cannes. Tieri is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and prestigious people in the industry. There are numerous rumors about him. It is beyond count that he is not an easy-going individual, strong and critical, and has caused many conflicts and conflicts in the process of cooperation.

But as the chairman of the selection committee, tieri's work is crucial. He is the guarantee of the quality and starlight of the whole festival. His skill, ability and taste will determine the direction of Cannes Film Festival. Tough and tough, that's his style.

Some insiders have disclosed that 80% of the works shortlisted in Cannes depend on quality, and 20% on others. The so-called others are contacts, direct relations, interests, starlight... And this "20 percent" is precisely the most difficult to control. The achievements of tieri's work in the past 10 years are obvious to all.

Everyone loves Thierry fomer. Everyone hates Thierry fomer.

Incidentally, Giles Jacobs began to serve as the chairman of the selection committee of Cannes Film Festival in 1977. After 23 years of precipitation and polishing, he became the chairman of Cannes Film Festival in 2000; The following year, Giles extended an olive branch to tieri, inviting him to succeed as chairman of the selection committee.

In fact, Thierry was younger and kinder than he thought.

Gray hair and dense crow's feet are always misleading. He is not 53 years old, but 73 years old. However, after meeting and talking with each other, his unique artist temperament is really different. It is not the mature and steady or cunning and shrewd in imagination, but the arrogance and coldness in his own world possessed by art creators, There's also a hint of merchant calculation.

If it is described by Lan Li, he will choose a word with oriental cultural characteristics: Confucian businessman.

It's a far cry from the movie king. However, Langley is convinced that tieri's style of work and leisure should be quite different.

"... in fact, my original idea was to invite gravity to be the opening film." Tieri showed a strangling expression and shook his head. "But unfortunately, Alfonso said that post production still needs a lot of time and effort, and even Venice and Toronto may not catch up. Is that true?"

Lanli was slightly surprised.

Gravity and the Great Gatsby are both produced and released by Warner Bros. But Langley had never heard of such details. Of course, Warner brothers did not need to report to him.

However, if "gravity" replaces "the Great Gatsby" as the opening work of this year's Cannes Film Festival, it is bound to be a very interesting thing.

"To be honest, I'm not sure." Lanli replied with a smile, "however, before shooting, we encountered many technical problems. Alfonso has been trying to solve it and really create a space film with unique visual experience. Therefore, post production is bound to be extremely difficult. But in the specific circumstances, you're going to embarrass me. To be honest, I don't know anything about post production. "

That's the truth.

Lanli didn't really understand the complexity of film post production; But to be sure, the post production of computer special effects obviously needs to spend more time and energy, not to mention the mature 3D technology now. The post production of "Avatar" is the most typical representative, which took nearly three years.

This time, too.

After all the shooting work of "gravity", lanli joined the cast of "drunken folk songs"; But in the end, "drunken folk" first landed on the stage of Cannes Film Festival, but "gravity" is still in intensive post production.

However, in the face of lanli's reply, tieri's eyes flashed slightly. He obviously didn't believe lanli's words, but he still said with a smile, "it's a pity. Now it seems that Alberto should be very happy

Alberto Barbera, the new president of the Venice Film Festival.

For Chinese audiences, the most familiar one is former president Marco Muller. He once went to China to study, and his first wife was also Chinese. After taking over the post of president of Venice Film Festival in 2004, Shuicheng opened the door to Chinese films. In the past eight years, he has made a lot of achievements.

The chairman of Venice Film Festival has a fixed number of years, four years as a cycle. In the two cycles of Marco as the chairman, Venice's international reputation and artistic achievements have advantages and disadvantages, good and bad, which has caused many disputes, but it is difficult to accurately describe.

On the one hand, Marco took the initiative to open his door to Hollywood, followed the example of Cannes, welcomed the arrival of numerous top stars, and created a lot of focus in the topic, which also brought considerable financial revenue to Venice. Even Venice's tourism industry showed a recovery momentum.

On the other hand, Marco's lack of enough promotion for Italian local films has triggered a strong rebound of local forces; At the same time, Marco put too much effort into the star effect, leading to a significant decline in the quality of the participating films and failing to accurately grasp the balance.

That's not all.

Faced with the impact of Toronto Film Festival, the attraction of Venice Film Festival to Hollywood is rapidly declining, and it has fallen into a rut again; However, Italy's economic decline and Venice's high prices have formed a contradiction, which makes the sales market of the film festival gradually depressed, and other film makers have been deterred.

In addition, the ambitious renovation project of Venice Film palace in 2007 was sentenced to "death penalty" last year. First, asbestos toxic substances were found in the foundation, and then it was found that the water quality of the foundation was no longer suitable for construction. This directly led to the complete collapse of the plan of Venice Film palace, which cost tens of millions of euros before and after, but achieved nothing.

Around the world, because of mark Muller, people have a new understanding of the Venice Film Festival, which is of positive significance; In Europe, because of mark Mueller, people also re recognize the negative significance of Venice Film Festival.

Last year, one of the hottest topics in the field of art and film in Europe was whether Marco should stay in office and whether he was willing to fight for it. Even during the film festivals held in Berlin and Cannes, there were endless discussions; After much deliberation, Marco chose to step down and be replaced by Alberto, who was the chairman of the Venice Film Festival selection committee from 1998 to 2002.

This year is the first year when Alberto took over the Venice Film Festival. It is a big pressure.

The relationship among the three major film festivals in Europe is contradictory. They compete with each other and support each other, care for each other and compete with each other.

Behind tieri's seemingly warm and friendly words, there is a secret speculation and spying, trying to learn more from lanli's mouth. Obviously, if gravity finally goes to Venice, he will be very, very disappointed. Jealousy and envy should not be able to be distinguished accurately.

Lan Li's smile rose slightly from the corner of his mouth. He felt that these intrigues in the art field were actually a little cute.

"I really don't know. Now I have to cross my fingers and start praying. For Warner Brothers, they naturally hope to catch up with Venice or Toronto, which is good for the box office. But if we miss Cannes, who knows if we will miss Venice and Toronto? " Lanli didn't seem to be aware of the deep meaning in tieri's words, and he answered earnestly.

Tieri's eyes showed a shallow smile, and lanli's words hinted that the post production progress still could not satisfy Warner Brothers. Now they are urging, missing Cannes is an accident, and missing Venice and Toronto is a probable event.

"Oh, poor Alberto. I'm really looking forward to this year's Venice film. You know, Alberto's artistic vision is always admirable. I used to like to communicate with him Tieri showed a look of regret and worry, eyes full of sincerity, did not feel any hypocrisy.

With a slight shrug and a smile, Langley said, "I'm sorry, I can't get involved in this topic. There must be an art film exchange group between you, but I'm not in it. "

The tone of ridicule immediately made tieri laugh happily, but there was no positive response, and then changed the topic.

Tieri didn't realize it until lanli turned around and left. He savored it carefully. Then he realized that lanli didn't say anything at the end of the day. Lanli just smoothed his hair. When the whole conversation was over, there were no leaves among the flowers.

This kind of consciousness makes tieri a little surprised, and then the smile rises slightly. Compared with anger and exasperation, it is more ridiculous and helpless.

It seems that this famous actor is more profound and interesting than he imagined; The title of hereditary aristocracy is definitely more than just a nominal name of a poor aristocrat.