The Venice International Film Festival, although its influence is increasingly declining because of its insistence on being niche and literary, but for China.
Always one of the three major film festivals in Europe!
In terms of influence, it's actually just not as lively as the Cannes Film Festival, but the quality is basically the same.
Moreover, this year there are so many Chinese films shortlisted for the main competition section of the Venice International Film Festival, so many Chinese movie fans have chosen Venice as their travel and vacation destination early on.
The Venice International Film Festival, as in previous years, is still held on Lido Island.
Lido Island is the second largest island after the main island of Venice. It is dotted with truly wealthy areas, commercial streets, entertainment venues, tourist facilities, etc.
Even though the Venice Film Festival is indeed less influential than before, let alone compared with Cannes, at this time of year, you can still see a huge crowd of reporters, editors, fashion bloggers, movie fans and tourists.
Li Yi actually came here quite early. Of course, he had never been to Venice, and the movie had already finished anyway, so he brought Xu Nannan here in advance.
I have to say that the scenery of Lido Island is really different from other places.
As we all know, the Venice Film Festival is held on Lido Island, but many people don’t know that this slender island is an internationally recognized health resort. This island is the first choice for many retired people!
When Li Yi and Xu Nannan came here, the most intuitive and profound impression was that there were so many old men and old ladies here. In the streets and alleys, in restaurants, on buses, at the beach... you can always see stumbling old people, but they
In an instant, you will abandon the adjectives "old and slow" and turn to their fashionable, clean and tidy attire!
Most of the old men here wear suits with leather shoes or casual suits, wearing casual hats or beach shorts and sunglasses. The old ladies wear either a skirt, a small bag and a cane, or a casual and elegant dress with sandals or a bikini. They are very energetic.
Full of charm. No matter what kind of outfit you match, you can see the word "meticulous". This is something new for Li Yi and Xu Nannan.
However, as the film festival approaches, Li Yi and Xu Nannan can only temporarily stop their interest in playing.
Although Li Yi honestly has no particular obsession with whether he will win or not, but since he has come here, he naturally hopes to win the award.
What's more, it's the movie "Cinema Paradiso"!
As the opening film, "Cinema Paradiso" has naturally attracted much attention and is also one of the officially promoted films in Venice.
However, compared with Cannes and Hollywood, the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival did seem a bit dim.
The film festival officially opens. The home venue is the Film Palace, and the first person to appear must be the jury!
Then there are stars from all walks of life, evenly divided between business celebrities and literary celebrities. The red carpet is naturally indispensable, but the red carpet is only more than 30 meters long, which still makes people feel a bit low.
But this does not prevent female stars from all over the world from competing for their beauty.
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At nine o'clock, "Cinema Paradiso" will be shown in the main hall of the Cinema Palace.
As the opening film, naturally a lot of people paid attention to it.
In addition to guests and media personnel, there are also a large number of spectators.
Amidst the applause, the main creators sat in the front row of the crew.
The movie is about to start!
In the theater, three domestic directors who have been shortlisted for the main competition of the Venice Film Festival this year are here.
In fact, it can be said that Li Yi and the group of domestic literary and artistic film directors are not compatible.
But in the past two years, Li Yi has actually entered the literary and artistic film industry directly, and even more exaggeratedly won awards, and the box office is also so that they can say that they are jealous of it.
This year has been quite depressing for Feng Jiaqi, Li Tian and Wang Xiao.
Of course, despite this, they are all Chinese filmmakers after all, so it is part of the title that they come to support it. At the same time, there is another point, that is, this is the opening film.
However, they are also extremely curious about Li Yi's film, which is favored by Italian directors such as Berto Manning.
In fact, not only them, but also many of Li Yi's competitors at this year's Venice Film Festival were also present.
For them, they have known about "Cinema Paradiso" for a long time, and they all know that it is their biggest competitor for winning awards this year.
There are also many media from domestic and foreign countries. Let’s not talk about domestic media reporters. There are so many here this year. Let’s talk about foreign media. There are also a lot of them. After all, Li Yi is really famous internationally now.
Not a nobody.
After all, he has won awards and his movies have box office success, so it is difficult for people to ignore him.
Then there are the movie fans.
Many movie fans came from China, including Liu Fei and Chen Jingning. After all, those who can come to the Venice Film Festival are not necessarily rich or expensive, but they are at least moderately wealthy. During the film festival, the prices and expenses are really extraordinary for ordinary people.
Affordable.
In fact, many domestic movie fans are familiar with this movie. After all, Li Yi has been in the headlines so many times!
But I was confused as to what story this movie was telling.
The synopsis of "Cinema Paradiso" is simply outrageous. It is almost the same as what Li Yi said in a previous interview: it tells the story of Duoduo, a child who grew up in a village in the small town of Cefalu in Sicily, Italy.
A story about growing up, about first love, about movies, about friendship, and about dreams!
You might as well not have said it if you had said it!
People who were present and knew about this movie were actually quite curious about it.
Because Bertolt Manning's evaluation of this movie was so high that the movie hadn't even been made yet.
There are even rumors that the reason why Berto Manning became the chairman of the Venice Film Festival jury this year is to promote this movie. Of course, this statement is a bit nonsense, but "Cinema Paradiso" was indeed discovered by Berto Manning.
It was brought to the Venice Film Festival, but there is no doubt about this!
The lights on the ceiling went out one after another, and the originally noisy screening room instantly became quiet, and the big screen lit up.
"Director Li Yi's work!"
There are three subtitles in Chinese, Italian and English.
For domestic movie fans, this is a sentimental experience!
But for the directors who came from China, all of them couldn't help but curl their lips, saying, "Hey, this is such a shame, it doesn't stop when you go abroad, it's still like this."
Of course, it's more sour. After all, such a prefix is really not something that ordinary directors would dare to use in every movie.
As domestic directors, they have a deeper understanding of what these six words mean in director Li Yi's works.
However, this is always a film festival for literary and artistic films, and they want to see if you, Li Yi, can also play literary and artistic films!
