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Chapter 456 Venice ends

Among the post-80s actresses, Cheng Yu'an admires Tan Zhuo very much.

She is obviously under 30 years old, but she has a 40-year-old face.

This is really not to belittle, this kind of actress actually has a wide range of roles, and the audience doesn't have too many memories of her face-maybe this is the reason why she has not been popular.

But the director will like this kind of actor very much, because she will not restrict the director's performance because of her appearance.

For an actress who is too beautiful, the director will unconsciously want to make her look beautiful.

Just like Li Yu is to Fan Xiaopang.

The same is true of Liu Yifei.

Ordinary directors are always reluctant to deal with such actresses.

He readily agreed to the invitation of the crew of "Xiao He".

"Little Lotus" is director Liu Shu's first feature film, which was screened at Film Critics Week.

Liu Shu is in the independent film circle, and Cheng Yu'an doesn't know each other.

But he was flattered by Cheng Yuan's arrival.

Yuanyuan makes commercial films, but the company has a large number of screenwriters and literary consultants and literary coordinators, and there is also demand for independent films and literary films. Literary and artistic cafes like Liu Shu and Tan Zhuo are also needed by Yuanyuan.

The premiere of "Xiao He" was a bit bleak, the screening hall was small and easily filled with people, few local media in Venice came, and most of them were domestic reporters.

After watching the movie, Cheng Yu'an and Tan Zhuo and Liu Shu exchanged contact information, and went to accept interviews from Movie Network one after another.

After Tan Zhuo finished the interview, it was Cheng Yu'an's turn.

"Have you been waiting for a long time?" Cheng Yu'an greeted the reporter friends from the movie network. They were all old friends, and the conversation was very relaxed.

"Fine. Let's get started."

"Okay." Cheng Yu'an took the microphone and tapped the board with his mouth, "Start.

"Hello, viewers and friends from MovieNet, I'm Cheng Yu'an, and I'm in Venice."

"Is there anything special that the director needs to pay attention to when he is interviewed as a judge?" The first question is to ask him this.

Cheng Yu'an smiled: "Nothing special, the main thing is that you can't talk about competition movies. If you ask me how this year's movies are, I can still say, but if you want to ask me which movie I have, I can't talk about it."

"Doesn't it delay filming after participating in the film festival for such a long time?"

"It's okay, the new film is still in preparation, I communicate with the domestic team every day in Venice, there will be no delay."

"Is there anything you can share with us about the new film?"

"Hey, you're here waiting for me." Cheng Yu'an was very relaxed in the interview with the movie network, ""Old Father" (the name is tentatively chosen for the sake of confidentiality) is about an old man suffering from Alzheimer's disease. story."

"Is it a literary film?"

"Yes. Because after "Hunting", I made "Thieves", made some money and had an account with the company, so I wanted to make another literary film."

"Have many people asked you about Chinese films falling out of favor in Venice this year?"

"Yes. In the past few days, not only domestic media have asked me this, but many foreign journalists have also asked me my opinion on the collective absence of Chinese films in Venice this year."

"Is this the result of Mark Mueller's resignation?"

"I don't think so. Mark Muller and I are old friends. He didn't invite me to be a judge, but Barbara. I don't even know him. He invited me." Cheng Yu'an was actually Mark Muller as a judge But he couldn’t tell the truth, and it was Barbara who sent out the official judge invitation, “So I don’t think there is any need for conspiracy theory.

"Then asking you to be a judge is also a part of representing Chinese films. The organizing committee has also considered whether to invite judges in China.

"Also, I think that there are really good years and bad years in movies, and in good years, there may not necessarily be movies that will premiere in this month (end of August and beginning of September), and some movies may feel that they will come out at this time too early.

"In fact, the chairman of the film festival is very passive every year. It depends on what films are available at this time of year. In fact, this year's competition films are very strong. There are many masters and many good films. There are no Chinese films this year. We can only say that , this year may not be a good time, because we don't know any good movies that have been sent, so we rejected it.

"So I think it's too unspecific to speculate like that."

As a judge, Cheng Yu'an must speak for Venice.

"Have you watched "Tai Chi"? What do you think of it as a finalist for this year's screening unit?"

"I saw it, I watched it last night. It's a very interesting movie." The judges can evaluate the movies in the non-competitive screening unit.

Cheng Yu'an still gave "Tai Chi" face, and didn't say it was not good-looking.

"Non-competition films are much more relaxed and less serious than competition films. The screening unit gives some more commercial and entertainment films a chance to be exposed."

After chatting with the reporter for a while, we both knew that the other was very busy, so we broke up without talking much.

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In the middle of the film festival, several popular films were released one after another.

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master has mixed reviews:
Post-war veterans, PTSD, religious temptation, psychotherapy.

Why do these elements look so familiar.

As soon as I looked at the producer, Weinstein Films.

This year's biggest hit is South Korean director Kim Ki-duk's "Pieta."

He said at the press conference that the film aims to accuse capitalism of destroying interpersonal relationships and humanity.

Why are you so left, why are you so politically correct!

At the press conference, Kim Ki-duk also criticized Korean films by the way, saying that South Korea values ​​commercial films too much and does not give art films a living.

Do directors his age like to say this?
Wang Xiaoshuai is like this, and so is Lou Ye.

But Cheng Yu'an actually didn't like the movie "Pieta".

Except for the last scene where the truck drags the main character to draw a straight line of blood, the rest of the movie is too...too Park Chan-wook!

Kim Ki-duk's discussion of the protagonist's identity changed from the previous discussion, and he started the so-called "criticism of capitalist society", which made Cheng Yu'an feel that this old man is a bit out of tune.

But "Pieta" still retains Kim Ki-duk's consistent film values:

"He believed in love, he believed in redemption, he believed in mercy and forgiveness, but he didn't believe in the world."

This is why Cheng Yu'an still voted for "Pieta" in the end.

"Pieta" is not very good in terms of technology and theme, but the background is still there.

On the 8th local time, the 69th Venice Film Festival came to an end.

The Korean film "Pieta" won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture without any suspense amid cheers, and won the first Golden Lion for South Korea.

"The Master" won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director amid booing, and also contributed double yolk egg actor Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix.

Cheng Yu'an said to Liu Yifei at the awards ceremony: "Anyway, I didn't vote for "The Master". This award was given by Michael Mann. Because the judges almost got into a fight in the conference room."

(End of this chapter)