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Chapter 311 Trip to Cannes ([-])

Regarding Godard, Chinese and foreign film critics have mixed opinions, but anyone with common sense in film history recognizes Godard's greatness: Godard is to film what Einstein is to physics.

He is the staunchest standard-bearer of the New Wave, constantly innovating film language and expanding the boundaries of film.

But there is another saying in the industry: Everyone who studies film and television art has a reason to hate Godard.

As a professional director, although Cheng Yu'an has little interest in the French New Wave, he still respects Godard, an old man, and even wants to meet Godard to chat with him through relationships, but this old man has no interest in commercial film directors like Cheng Yu'an. interest.

Why do you say Godard, because the old man is doing things at the film festival.

Godard, Matthew Amalek, Xavier Biwas, Oliver Assayas and others jointly signed a statement, saying that the US authorities' request for the extradition of director Polanski is a "real case". Lies", whose intention was to discredit Polanski, they also signed a "petition" asking the Swiss authorities to deny the US extradition of Polanski.Xavier Biwas also showed the black clothes with Polanski's name on them to reporters from various countries during the pre-screening of his competition film "Man and God", symbolizing condolences.

The signing of the joint letter also attracted other directors' arguments on the extradition incident.Director Woody Allen, who brought "Encounter a Stranger" to the Cannes screening, said that Polanski has already been punished, and the U.S. Attorney's Office should not continue to entangle this old story.

What "old events"?
In 1977, the 13-year-old American actress Samantha Gaimer was lured by Polanski into taking nude photos and forcing her to have sex.

Samantha Gaimer later took Polanski to court, and Polanski fled the United States.

The US police have pursued this case for 30 years.

During the period, the past was brought up from time to time, which made her feel miserable after quitting the film and television industry to live an ordinary life. Finally, in September last year, Polanski was arrested in Switzerland, but Samantha Geimer expressed forgiveness for Poland at this time. Ski and asked for the charges against him to be dropped.

For 30 years, some things are not forgiven, but forgotten.

Before the opening ceremony, Polanski's case added another wave. A British actress claimed that Polanski had sexually harassed her when she was only 16 years old during the filming of "The Pirates Win the Golden Crown".

This incident has also shaken the French who have always supported Polanski. French Minister of Culture Frederick Mitterrand said: "As a minister, I will not comment on this matter anymore, because this matter is really serious. Too complicated."

Jill Jacobs, chairman of the film festival, also tried to remain neutral: "Polanski is a great director, but he is also a citizen. No one is above the law. Whether he is guilty or not is beyond our judgment. "

Michael Douglas, who followed "Wall Street 2" to Cannes to promote it, opposed it. He said he would never participate in the joint petition.

Of course Woody Allen supported Polanski, he himself is not a good bird.

If this petition letter is just the beginning, then the main course is the collective demonstration of the French audience.

Against main-competition hit Rachid Buchhara's Outlaw.

Rachid Bouchara's film depicts the Sétif massacre in Algeria by the French from an Algerian perspective.

This made the French audience very dissatisfied. The mayor of Cannes personally led the people to take to the streets to parade, holding the national flag and singing Marseillaise.

The point is that Ratched Bouchara is French, and "Outlaws" was invested by the French Film Fund.

So, Lu Chuan, you are really lucky to be born in China. If you moved to another country, you filmed "Nanjing!"Nanjing! "was beaten to death by the audience.

But Cheng Yu'an is only responsible for eating melons, and he has nothing to do with these bullshit matters.

Cheng Yu'an took Yuan Yuan and his party to the premiere of "Everyday Chongqing" and returned to the hotel.

Han Yan said: "This film is also ashamed to say it is a commercial film."

Although he is a novice, he has been with Cheng Yu'an for seven or eight years, and he hasn't seen any movies.

Cheng Yu'an's tone revealed a little helplessness: "Wang Xiaoshuai wants to make a commercial film, but he can't let go. His thinking has been fixed and he wants to embrace the market, but his brain can't keep up."

This is the tragedy of their generation of underground directors. Not all directors are like Zhang Yimou, who can quickly switch from literary films to commercial films.

Look at the director of Kaige, after so many years, has he turned over?

"This film actually cost 3500 million yuan." Teng Huatao was also incredulous after watching it.

He made a lot of low-budget films, and it was obvious at a glance that Wang Xiaoshuai was messing around.

3500 million to make such a literary and not literary, commercial and not commercial film, the box office needs to exceed [-] million to pay back.

The main investor of "Rizhao Chongqing", Han Xiaoxi, chairman of Tianbao Huaying's board of directors, came to Cannes to support Wang Xiaoshuai.

As a result, only less than 500 million copyrights were sold.

By the way, the overseas distribution copyright of "A Little Thing of First Love" did not sell very well, but the remake rights have always been sold in dozens of countries, with a total price of more than 2000 million US dollars.

Han Xiaoxi almost died of anger when she compared the left and right sides.

At the premiere before, Han Xiaoxi and Cheng Yuan secretly complained about Wang Xiaoshuai: "He swears that this time it must be a commercial film."

No matter how fine Cheng Yu'an is, he must be consoling from the director's point of view: "It's okay, the old horse also stumbles sometimes."

Cheng Yu'an still cared about Wang Xiaoshuai's face when he was outside, otherwise he would have scolded him long ago.

On the forum of the Shanghai Film Festival last year, Wang Xiaoshuai lashed out at Lu Chuan and Ning Hao, saying that their directors with a box office of over [-] million were failures: "I envy their success, but as directors, they are failures."

Cheng Yu'an didn't participate in the Shanghai Film Festival at the time, but Wang Xiaoshuai gave him a weird meal: "I only know some young directors who don't do well in filming. The company on the left and the company on the right. He is the chairman and a businessman, but he is not a director." director."

Therefore, Cheng Yu'an was able to bring people to his premiere to support him because of the love of his compatriots.

The long-distance film sales journey came to an end on the 20th.

The two films sold well, and the task was overfulfilled.

Later, Cheng Yu'an gave everyone a holiday, so they should have fun and eat.

However, Han Yan and Teng Huatao seemed to have gone too far in Cannes.

He and Teng Huatao didn't see anyone all day long. After the film festival closed, everyone got on the plane, and they both lost weight.

Cheng Yu'an still didn't understand, and said with a smile: "Do you know what makes the most money during the film festival?"

"Of course it's a movie."

"No." Cheng Yu'an shook his head, "Every year at the film festival, skilled women from all over Europe come to Cannes. They are the most profitable people in the entire film festival."

Han Yan was a little embarrassed, and Cheng Yu'an said: "You are single now, it's okay to play around, but pay attention to your body."

Han Yan said: "I didn't play much. The problem is that the big wild horses are too powerful. I and the old man can't exhaust them physically."

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