After the filming of "Su Yuan" was completed, Li Yi directly started the post-editing work.
There was no other 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 to "The Truman Show", realistic themes like "Suwon" are actually Cannes' favorite!
Venice Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival, these three film festivals are also called the three major film festivals in Europe and are the most representative film festivals.
These three major film festivals have their own artistic purposes for measuring film quality:
The Venice Film Festival focuses more on the discussion of human nature and the artistry of the film itself, and encourages film innovation.
Cannes prefers films with realistic themes and artistic value.
When selecting excellent films, the Berlin Film Festival prefers films that are more politically correct after balancing business and art.
Therefore, in fact, "The Truman Show" is more in line with the appetite of the Venice Film Festival, while "Suwon" is more in line with the appetite of the Cannes Film Festival.
Even though "The Truman Show" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the possibility of this movie winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes is actually not high. On the contrary, it is more promising for Best Director.
In comparison, "Sowon" is more promising.
Of course, there are still big differences between the three major European film festivals and the Oscars.
The three major film festivals all like to cultivate their own direct directors in order to expand and maintain the influence of the film festival.
For example, if Li Yi participates in Cannes and wins an award, he will obviously be a direct descendant of the Cannes Film Festival.
Of course, this is based on winning a prize.
Winning the award or not is, at most, the icing on the cake for Li Yi himself.
But for a movie like "Sowon", because it is not a commercial movie, if it can win an award at the Cannes Film Festival, it will play a very big role in promoting the movie.
Although Li Yi is not short of money, the filming of "Su Yuan" was not for making money.
But more box office means more people watching it, which means the movie will have greater influence.
This is what Li Yi pursues.
This was also his original intention of shooting this film, hoping that through this film, people would pay more attention to this terrible social phenomenon.
"Sowon" is different from other movies. The violation of minors involved in this movie can be said to be a terrible problem all over the world.
Therefore, this film has a higher chance of winning an award at Cannes.
Of course, none of this can be guaranteed at this time.
Interestingly, Xue Kaishan is also one of the judges at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
This year's Cannes Film Festival opens on May 28th.
If it had been ten days and a half earlier, Li Yi might not be able to catch up.
On this trip to Cannes, Li Yi not only brought the main creative members of the "So Yuan" crew, but also the main creative members of "The Truman Show". A large group of people came together, especially "So Yuan"
》The main creative members of the crew, filming this movie is actually a torture for any actor.
Therefore, this trip is also meant to relax a bit.
In May, the opening of the film festival marks the official start of the Cannes summer, and the colorful time flows from the screen to everyone living here.
This small city in southern France, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, will be flooded with more than 100,000 people, including film professionals, media personnel and tourists from all over the world.
It can be said that there are many stories between Chinese films and Cannes.
Many Chinese filmmakers have won world-wide honors, all starting from Cannes.
For example, Xue Kaishan, Chen Wen, etc.
But what’s interesting is that from the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century, when the Chinese film market was in the ascendant, it was almost a regular visitor to the three major European film festivals every year. Even if it didn’t win awards, at least there would be many films every year.
Entered the main competition units of three major film festivals.
However, after China's film market entered a period of rapid explosion, although many domestic literary and artistic film directors' films were still selected for the main competition every year, the number of awards became very few.
In fact, last year and the year before last, for two consecutive years, none of the Chinese films were shortlisted for the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival.
This has also led to a significant decline in domestic attention to the Cannes Film Festival.
However, China is the world's second largest film market and a country with a large population. The Cannes Film Festival, which is increasingly eager for influence, will not ignore it.
Therefore, they are also eager to support China's direct Cannes Film Festival directors.
Originally, a commercial film director like Li Yi would not come into their sight, but who made Li Yi make a literary film like "The Truman Show" and it became a commercial success.
A commercial film director with extremely strong appeal in China began to shoot literary films.
So it is reasonable to be drawn in.
Especially after Li Yi won the Oscar for Best Picture, it can be said that his influence has reached a higher level.
Of course, in addition to being a holy place for literary and artistic films, Cannes is also a huge film market!
Compared to Li Yi, the purpose of coming to Cannes is very pure, to participate in the film festival, compete for the Palme d'Or, and promote "Sowon".
The purpose of Lou Jianjun's visit this time is more simply to sell movies!
Not only "The Truman Show", but also "Su Yuan" and the films previously shot by Li Yi, many of which have not yet sold the rights to countries outside of Asia and North America.
This time, Li Yi and the others directly booked a hotel, but there was no way, there were a lot of people coming.
We have received clear news that both "The Truman Show" and "Suwon" have been shortlisted for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
The two films will be publicly screened at the Palais des Festivals at the Cannes Film Festival in Japan.
In fact, Li Yi didn't do much public relations, but he just won the Oscar for Best Picture, and "The Truman Show" really made Li Yi famous around the world.
Even "Sowon" has also attracted a lot of attention.
Of course, "Suwon" was shortlisted for the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. Although the Cannes Film Festival wants to win over it, it is more due to the film's own subject matter advantages and the quality of the film.
Facts have proved that Cannes' approach to win over Li Yi this time has paid off hugely.
Because of this year's Cannes Film Festival, domestic attention is obviously much higher than in the past.
Especially this year, Li Yi has two films shortlisted for the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Whether or not the Chinese people are eager to pay attention is actually very simple. For example, in the World Cup, when China entered the World Cup, no matter who it played, it was China's home field.
This can be seen from the fact that a domestic online platform won the broadcast rights of the Cannes Film Festival Closing Ceremony and Awards Ceremony at a high price.
In the past two years, no Chinese film has entered the main competition, and no one cares about broadcast rights or anything like that!
Not only that, it is obvious that among the tourists in Cannes this year, the proportion of Chinese tourists is significantly higher.
When Li Yi and others go out for a walk, they can see domestic tourists appearing from time to time.
