Actor: My Entertainment Era

Halfway through the festival schedule, some media outlets were already criticizing the new chairman Leskuhl and the festival's artistic director Fumao.

Because the average quality of this year's films was low, the media and audiences were dissatisfied.

"Aokigahara Jukai" premiered on the 16th and was booed by the audience in the theater. The next day's "Screen" program gave the film the lowest score in the history of the Cannes main competition, 0.6 points.

Two screening accidents occurred during the screening of Jia Zhangke's "Old Friends in Mountains and Rivers".

At the first media screening of "The Assassin," there was a serious sign of walk-outs. Halfway through the screening, several rows of the audience were already gone. When the screening was over, only 20 to 30% of the audience was left in the venue. The scene was not good to watch.

After the screening, French media commented: "The picture is beautiful, but it is also boring at the same time."

However, the two Chinese-language films received very good ratings in the catalogue. "A Tale of Mountains and Rivers" scored 2.8 and "The Assassin" scored 3.5, the highest scores in the film, on par with "Carol".

Domestic media have speculated that Chinese-language films will win awards this year - ""Old Man" and "Assassin Nie Yinniang" are considered to be the Chinese-language films most likely to win the Palme d'Or after "Farewell My Concubine."

At noon on the day of the closing ceremony, Zhang Yuanjun gave his last interview to domestic media.

Although they knew that Zhang Yuanjun could not reveal the inside story of the selection, reporters from the Movie Network still tried to trick Zhang Yuanjun, hoping to get some selection information out of him in advance.

Zhang Yuanjun said: "No film has yet been determined to win the award. The jury will not meet until after lunch to discuss it."

But the reporter still wants to ask: "Which Chinese film have you watched recently that left the deepest impression on you?"

It's no problem to ask foreign judges this question, but when asking Zhang Yuanjun, it's clear that you want to know his views on "Old Friends in Mountains and Rivers" and "The Assassin Nie Yinniang".

But Zhang Yuanjun was not fooled: "The last Chinese film I watched was "Wolf Warrior" which I watched in China last month."

Ended the interview and turned off the camera. Zhang Yuanjun smiled and said to reporters: "Don't try to trick me."

The reporter was not embarrassed and said with a grin: "It's work. Will Yifei come to the closing ceremony?"

"She went back the day before yesterday. She still has things to do at home." After chatting for a while, Zhang Yuanjun and the reporter went to have lunch separately.

After lunch, Zhang Yuanjun met with other judges to begin the final film discussion and award distribution.

There was no particularly violent quarrel between the jury and Pierre Lescure.

The Coen brothers did not show too much stubbornness and inhumanity in the distribution of awards. Half an hour after the red carpet started, the jury finalized the distribution of awards.

"The jury led by the Coen brothers walked on the red carpet. It is worth mentioning that the famous Chinese actor Zhang Yuanjun is one of the judges this year. I hope he can bring good luck to this year's Chinese-speaking army."

Movie palace.

Under the chairmanship of Lambert Wilson, the Short Film Palme d'Or, the Honorary Palme d'Or and the Best Debut Film Golden Camera Award were awarded.

After these three awards, it is the turn of the main competition unit.

Lambert Wilson introduced the jury.

The first award is the Best Screenplay Award.

"The best screenplay award goes to," Ethan Coen stood up and read, "for Michel Frank's 'Chronic.'"

Afro-haired Michelle Frank took the stage to accept the award.

The second award is Best Actress.

"Two actors won the Best Actress award," Joel Coen said, "Rooney Mara in Todd Haynes' Carol and Myron Le... Best's "My King" starring Emmanuel Beckett."

A rare double yolk egg for the movie queen.

The audience applauded to send the two actresses off to the stage.

The choice of actress is quite controversial backstage.

The opening film was directed by Beckett, and now the Best Actress award is given to Beckett. The organizing committee is really not afraid of gossip. The Jury Prize after Best Actress was awarded to "The Lobster", and the Best Actor after "The Lobster" was awarded to Frenchman Vincent Linton.

It's time for Best Director.

"Mr. Chairman, who won the Best Director Award tonight?"

Ethan Coen picked up the microphone: "Hou Xiaoxian."

Hou Xiaoxian in the audience smiled and slowly walked onto the stage.

After receiving the certificate of commendation, he first paid tribute to the judges.

Hou Xiaoxian did not know French, so he started with the sentence "Thank you everyone" that he has learned now, and then said in Chinese:

"I have been to Cannes seven times. I won an award before. I have forgotten what award it was. Winning the Director Award this time is a great encouragement to me. Thank you very much. Because making a movie is not that easy, especially when finding someone to win. More money is harder, so thank you very much, thank you to my crew, thank you.”

The subsequent Jury Prize was won by the Hungarian film "Son of Saul".

"The winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Picture is," said Ethan Coen, "Jacques Audiard's 'The Wandering Dupin.'"

The audience burst into warm applause.

The Palme d'Or, Best Actor, and Best Actress all stayed in France.

My heart has moved to the Pacific Ocean, but no matter what, this film festival is over.

Zhang Yuanjun went back to rest after attending the dinner party after the awards ceremony.

In the afternoon of the next day, Zhang Yuanjun boarded a plane back home in Paris.

Before the awards ceremony, the domestic media said that "We Are Old" and "The Assassin" are strong contenders for the Palme d'Or. Although they have not yet achieved their expectations, "The Assassin" can win the best director, which is also a beauty in the Chinese film industry. thing.

After the ceremony, Zhang Yuanjun still could not reveal the jury's award process backstage, but no matter what, the crew of "Assassin Nie Yinniang" must bear Zhang Yuanjun's feelings.

Therefore, two days after Zhang Yuanjun returned to China, he received an invitation to a celebration party for winning the award for "Assassin Nie Yinniang".

On Bend Island.

Zhang Yuanjun refused.

It's not that he's avoiding suspicion, it's that Zhang Yuanjun really can't leave.

He had a lot of work after returning to China.

"The Invisible Guest" is scheduled to start filming in Beijing at the beginning of next month, which is only ten days away, and Zhang Yuanjun has to keep an eye on the final preparations.

"Funeral Coffin" was officially renamed "Heart Labyrinth" and was submitted to the General Administration for review. Zhang Yuanjun felt that the problem was not big this time, and was discussing the schedule with Xin Yukun and Wanda's distribution manager.

Huayi finally got Gu Changwei, and "Redemption" was officially handed over to him. Zhang Yuanjun had already done more than half of the preparation work in the early stage. Gu Changwei estimated that if it was early, it would be able to start filming this winter. I met Zhang Yuanjun. Gu Changwei I took people out to see the scenery.

Gu Changwei took over "Redemption" on the first day. The "Invisible Guest" actor coordinator contacted Ma Chun the next day and invited her to play the role of the protagonist's wife in "The Invisible Guest", named Wu Lan.

Ma Chun happily agreed. Although it was a supporting role, as long as he could play with Zhang Yuanjun and Gong Li, a supporting role would be a supporting role.

Besides, it doesn’t matter what you act in this crew, the most important thing is getting in.

Zhang Yuanjun naturally has no objection. Wu Lan's role is not very important, as long as someone plays it.

Zhang Yuanjun is preparing two dramas at the same time, and Liu Yifei's "Wang Xiaofang" is also nervously advancing.

She really went to Huang Xiaoming to play the leading role for her! (End of chapter)