tearjerker director

Chapter 488 Cannes Premiere
After "Su Yuan" was finished, Li Yi directly started the post-editing work.

There was no way, Albert Frey at the Cannes Film Festival almost urged Li Yi to submit the film to the Cannes Film Festival as soon as possible.

Compared with "The Truman Show", realistic themes like "Su Yuan" are Cannes' favorites!
The Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival, these three film festivals are also known as the three major film festivals in Europe and are the most representative film festivals.

These three major film festivals have their own artistic purposes in measuring the quality of films:
The Venice Film Festival focuses more on the exploration of human nature and the artistry of the film itself, and encourages film innovation.

Cannes prefers realistic themes and films with artistic value.

In the selection of excellent films, the Berlin Film Festival prefers films that are more in line with political correctness after balancing business and art.

Therefore, in fact, "The Truman Show" is more in line with the appetite of the Venice Film Festival, and "Suyuan" is more in line with the appetite of the Cannes Film Festival.

Don't look at "The Truman Show" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, but the possibility of this film winning the Palme d'Or in Cannes is actually not high. On the contrary, the best director is more promising.

In contrast, "Suyuan" is more promising.

Of course, there is still a big difference between the three major European film festivals and the Oscars.

The three major film festivals like to cultivate their own directors in order to expand and maintain the influence of the film festival.

For example, if Li Yi participates in Cannes to win an award, then it is obviously equivalent to being a direct descendant of the Cannes Film Festival.

Of course, this is based on winning the prize.

Whether he wins the prize or not is at best the icing on the cake for Li Yi himself.

But for a movie like "Suyuan", because it is not a commercial movie, if it can win an award at the Cannes Film Festival, it will have a very important effect on the promotion of the movie.

Although Li Yi is not short of money, the filming of "Suyuan" was not for making money.

But more box office means more people watching, which means that the movie will gain more influence.

This is what Li Yi pursues.

This is also his original intention of making this film, hoping that through this film, people will pay more attention to this terrible social phenomenon.

"Suyuan" is different from other movies. The violation of minors involved in this movie can be said to be a terrible problem in the whole world.

Therefore, it is more likely that this film will win an award in Cannes.

Of course, none of these can be guaranteed at present.

Interestingly, Xue Kaishan is also one of the judges at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

This year's Cannes Film Festival kicks off on May 5.

If it was ten days and a half months earlier, Li Yi might really not be able to catch up.

This trip to Cannes, Li Yi not only brought the main creative members of the "Su Yuan" crew, but also the main creative members of "The Truman Show".A large group of people came together, especially the main creative members of the "Su Yuan" crew, to shoot this movie, in fact, it is a torment for any actor.

Therefore, this trip also means to relax.

In May, the opening of the film festival marks the official start of Cannes summer, and the colorful time flows from the screen to everyone who lives here.

This small city located in the south of France and on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea will attract more than [-] people, including film practitioners, media personnel and tourists from all over the world.

It can be said that there are many stories between Huaguo Film and Cannes.

Many Chinese filmmakers have won worldwide honors, starting from Cannes.

Such as Xue Kaishan, such as Chen Wen and so on.

But what is interesting is that from the 90s to the beginning of the [-]st century, when the Huaguo film market was in the ascendant, almost every year they were frequent visitors to the three major European film festivals. The main competition unit of the big film festival.

But on the contrary, after entering the rapid explosion period of Huaguo's film market, although there are still many domestic literary and artistic film directors' films selected for the main competition unit every year, very few of them win awards.

Even last year and the year before last, Huaguo films have not been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival for two consecutive years.

And this has also led to a significant decline in domestic attention to the Cannes Film Festival.

However, the world's second largest film market like Huaguo is also a populous country, and the Cannes Film Festival, which is increasingly eager for influence, will naturally not ignore it.

Therefore, they are also eager to support Huaguo's Cannes Film Festival directors again.

Originally, a commercial film director like Li Yi would not have entered their sights, but who made Li Yi make a literary film like "The Truman Show" and still shine commercially.

A commercial film director with a strong appeal in China began to shoot literary films.

So being drawn in is also a reasonable thing.

Especially after Li Yi won the Oscar for Best Picture, it can be said that his influence has increased to a higher level.

Of course, in addition to being a holy place for literary and artistic films, Cannes is also a huge market for selling films!
Compared to Li Yi's purpose of coming to Cannes is very pure, to participate in the film festival, compete for the Palme d'Or, and promote "Su Yuan".

The purpose of Lou Jianjun's visit this time is even more purely to sell movies!

Not only "The Truman Show", but also "Suyuan", as well as the films Li Yi shot before, but many of them have not yet sold the copyrights of countries other than Asia and North America.

This time, Li Yi and the others directly booked a hotel, there was no way, there were a lot of people here.

It has been confirmed that both "The Truman Show" and "Su Yuan" have been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival.

The two films will be screened at the Palais des Festivals at the Cannes Film Festival on the 29th and 30th respectively.

In fact, Li Yi didn't do too much public relations, but he just won the Oscar for Best Picture, and "The Truman Show" can be said to have really made Li Yi famous all over the world.

Even "Su Yuan" also won a lot of attention.

Of course, "Suyuan" can be shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival, which means that the Cannes Film Festival wants to win over, but it is more because of the film's own theme advantages and the quality of the film.

Facts have proved that Cannes's approach of wooing Li Yi this time has already paid off hugely.

Because of this year's Cannes Film Festival, the domestic attention is obviously much higher than before.

Especially this year, Li Yi alone has two films shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival.

Whether Chinese people pay attention to whether they are eager or not is actually very simple. For example, the World Cup. In the year when Hua Guo entered the World Cup, no matter who the game was, it was Hua Guo's home game.

It can be seen from the fact that domestic online platforms won the rights to broadcast the closing ceremony and awards ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival at a high price.

In the past two years, no Huaguo film has entered the main competition unit, and no one cares about the broadcasting rights!

Not only that, among the tourists in Cannes this year, the proportion of Chinese tourists is significantly higher.

When Li Yi and others went out for a stroll, they could see domestic tourists appearing from time to time.

(End of this chapter)