There are three Cannes journals, the British "Screen", the American "Hollywood Reporter" and the French "France Film". These journals publish a special issue every day during the festival to summarize and comment on various recent activities.
These catalogs are free and can be seen everywhere from the Cinema Palace to major hotels. As the first work in the main competition to be screened, "The Little Seamstress" naturally attracted widespread attention.
When He Xin came back from his run the next morning, he saw that today's latest issue of the event magazine had been placed in the hotel lobby. He casually took two copies and flipped through them. Although he couldn't understand the contents, it did not hinder him.
See the pictures inside.
For example, the cover of "Screen" shows the American film "The Numbers" produced by Warner Bros. and starring Hollywood actress Sandra Brooke, which is participating in the screening section.
One more thing, the cover of this kind of event magazine can basically be put on if you have money, and the cost ranges from 50,000 to 100,000 euros. Later, Wang Xueqi's first director's film "In the Name of the Father" and Huang Bo's
Both "The Memory Master" appeared on the cover of "Screen" during the Cannes Film Festival.
Then they use it to promote domestically and make headlines one after another. Domestic audiences often mistakenly think that being on the cover of the Cannes event is a great thing. Then competitors, just to be black, publicize that they have spent money.
Using the title "Cannes Catalog Falls from the Altar" to add gimmicks will mislead the audience into thinking that it is a secret operation, which is very disgraceful.
In fact, the debut issue is to spend money to advertise your own movies. The purpose is to promote your own movies and find overseas buyers. Of course, movies like "In the Name of the Father" and "Master of Memory" in later generations can spend 100,000 euros.
It makes headlines domestically, improves your own profile, and increases your exposure internationally. In the end, it is still a very cost-effective deal.
If it’s too expensive, there are also the inner pages of the program. Basically, the first five pages are like this. He Xin turned to the middle part to find his movie, which also published the acceptance speech of the main creator on the stage at yesterday’s premiere.
In the photo during the interview, he was standing next to director Dai Sijie, and his image is still very eye-catching in the photo.
There were a few film reviews at the front that I couldn't understand, so I turned back and saw that the screening review gave "The Little Seamstress" a score of 2.6, a score that was neither too high nor too low.
According to the Cannes program, the full score is 4 points. Generally, if it exceeds 3 points, it is considered a very high score. "The Party at Southern Station", which was almost praised by the domestic media in later generations, only received a score of 2.7 when it participated in the Cannes Film Festival.
point.
Of course, high scores do not necessarily mean winning awards. The 2018 Korean film "Burning" once scored the highest score of 3.8 in the history of Cannes, but in the end it was not accepted.
After the premiere of "The Little Seamstress", in a sense, He Xin's mission to participate in this film festival has almost been completed, and now he is waiting for the closing ceremony on the 26th.
If you are lucky and can win one or two minor awards, it will obviously be of great benefit to the global distribution of the film. The biggest benefit for an actor is that more audiences can know him. Of course, unless he can win the Best Actor or Best Actress
, that’s another matter.
In contrast, Zhou Xun and Chen Kun are much busier. Under Li Xiaowan's arrangement, they not only have to attend various activities, but also accept exclusive interviews from domestic reporters.
It is said that the domestic China Film Group has also specially sent a delegation to the marketing activities of this film festival to promote Chinese films to foreign counterparts, and at the same time, it also selects excellent foreign films for the broad masses of the domestic people.
In addition to the domestic guests Kai Ye, Gong Li, and Jiang Wen invited by the film festival, as well as Tianzhuangzhuang, Lu Chuan and others who came with the China Film Group, the Chinese army participating in the film festival was quite strong, so it also attracted many
Domestic media.
As Berlin's Best Newcomer last year, Shinco's Golden Horse Best Actor, and one of the leading actors in films shortlisted for the main competition, He Xin is naturally one of the targets that domestic media are chasing for interviews.
After all, when you are abroad, you always feel a sense of intimacy when you see Chinese people. At first, he was quite happy to introduce interviews from domestic reporters.
But after a few times, he couldn't bear it.
Even if it’s just asking over and over again something like “Are you confident about winning this award?”
"Can you predict whether "The Little Seamstress" will win this time?"
"Can you comment on your performance in The Little Seamstress?"
"Can you please tell me about your feelings about working with Chen Kun and Zhou Xun?"
This kind of low-level question is fine, but you have to ask: "Why do you always make banned films?"
Or "Chief Jia's "Ren Xiaoyao" was shortlisted for the main competition, but it failed to pass the domestic review. What is your comment on this?"
This is not very friendly.
He Xin really wanted to ask back at that time: "What the hell do you mean?"
If he really did this, I'm afraid it would be too late for those reporters to be happy!
"The actor used foul language!"
"He Xin loses his composure, fearing that he will face emotional setbacks!"
“The Golden Horse Best Actor is a big name in Cannes!”
News with titles like this will probably be all over the domestic media the next day.
Therefore, he could only bite the bullet and said: "First of all, the actors are passive. Who could have known that the finished film would be banned when filming? As for Chief Jia, I'm sorry that I'm not familiar with him, so I can't comment."
"Why are all three films banned?"
"Bad luck, bad luck!"
From then on, he stayed away from home, either staying in his room or going out for shopping or watching movies.
Speaking of watching movies, he really found a good movie.
The films in the exhibition were all original versions with English subtitles, which he could neither understand nor understand. There were not many Chinese-language films to choose from. "Two Eyes" directed by Chen Guofu would not be released until the 21st, and "Ren Xiaoyao" by Chief Jia
" was scheduled to premiere on the 23rd.
That day happened to meet the Korean movie "The Drunken Painter" that was shortlisted for the main competition. Although he couldn't understand Korean, considering that we all belong to East Asia and share the same culture, it shouldn't be as difficult as watching a Western movie that he couldn't understand, so
So I bought a ticket and went in to join in the fun.
Now, of course, he is not as fussy about a movie ticket worth more than ten euros as he was in Berlin.
This is a biographical film.
Although he couldn't understand the dialogue, the film's screen design, detail processing, and generally understandable storyline were all outstanding.
It is also a biographical film, which reminds him of the film "Mei Lanfang" produced by Kai Ye, a former winner of the Palme d'Or, who has no works at this year's film festival, but was touted by the domestic media as the red carpet finale of the opening ceremony.
Although the latter has exquisite and gorgeous pictures, it is inevitably ordinary and featureless, while the former tells the life of a paranoid lunatic painter, like a black swan, a psychological process of self-transformation, self-overthrow and reshape, especially the ending, which is really full of charm and full of charm.
It is Zen-like without any trace of deliberateness.
Chinese painting and Zen are our own culture, but they are carried forward by others!
Looking back at Kai Ye's "Mei Lanfang", it can't help but be artificial and too exaggerated!
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"Director Chen!"
"Brother Jiahui!"
"Sister Ruoying!"
"Ha, Ah Xin!"
"Miss Zhou, Mr. Chen, welcome! Welcome!"
Today is the premiere of "Double Eyes", and He Xin, Zhou Xun, and Chen Kun came to support them. Chen Guofu, who was wearing a black windbreaker and looked cool, shook their hands and greeted them warmly.
Judging from the title alone, Chen Guofu was obviously more casual and affectionate towards He Xin.
This is because Milk Tea invited him to dinner two days ago, and Chen Guofu also accompanied him at that time. The communication between filmmakers is naturally inseparable from the topic of movies. Chen Guofu prefers suspense and horror themes. The two of them discussed the topic of "The Garden of Forking Paths"
The conversation turned out to be very interesting.
However, through this meal, He Xin also noticed that the relationship between Milk Tea and Chen Guofu seemed to be very close, far beyond the relationship between a director and an actress, or between friends.
Generally speaking, the screening unit of "Two Eyes" is shortlisted for screening and selling films in Cannes. If it is a new director, it usually organizes a private screening and invites reporters and film producers to participate. If the response is good, the number of screenings will be expanded.
And the scale, if it is normal, then it will be withdrawn quietly.
Otherwise, the Cinema Palace wouldn't have so many mini screening rooms with 25 to 50 people.
Chen Guofu is obviously very generous. He booked a 300-seat theater for today's premiere, which is quite large.
"Two Eyes" is a horror film. The poster shows a big-headed baby corpse soaked in a glass bottle with a pair of red eyes staring out. It looks very scary at first glance. I guess it is to comfort foreigners.
Patterns like this often appeared on the posters of Hong Kong's low-budget horror films in the 1990s. The background of the entire poster was similar to that of "Beijing No. 81" in later generations. After He Xin saw it, his first feeling was that it was relatively low.
It has a strong smell of bad movies.
However, when he arrived at the scene, He Xin found that the movie fans were quite popular. Fans walked in in twos and threes. By the time they entered the cinema, most of the seats were already occupied. The three rows of seats in front were reserved for reporters, film producers and important guests.
He Xin and three other people were placed in the second row. After they sat down, people kept greeting them. Most of them were journalists or filmmakers from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
After sitting around for a while, I saw more and more people coming in, and it was finally full. When Chen Guofu, Liang Jiahui and Milk Tea walked in accompanied by Zhang Manyu, the place suddenly caused a commotion.
As a Chinese actress, I am afraid that only the two "Gong Huangmanshen" can become famous internationally, and for more than ten years in the future, no one can surpass them.
If we judge success or failure based on awards alone, Zhang Manyu, who has won Best Actress in Berlin and Cannes, even surpasses Gong Li, who only has one Best Actress award in Venice.
Of course, Zhang Manyu was still just a Berlin film queen at this time.
He Xin met her and her French director husband at the opening ceremony. "The Devil's Lover" directed by her French director husband was also shortlisted for the main competition of this film festival.
He Xin vaguely remembered that the marriage between Zhang Manyu and her French director husband did not last long, and they later divorced. However, separations and reunions like this are too common in the entertainment industry, especially cross-border marriages or couples. There are almost no such marriages.
Long lasting.
For example, Chen Chong, Wei Wei, Ning Jing, etc., including later classmate Xiao Zhang, are all like this.
Zhang Manyu was sitting in the front row. While Chen Guofu was speaking on the stage, He Xinzheng secretly looked at Manshen's profile. Today she was not dressed up like she was at the opening ceremony. Her clothes were very casual and she only put on light makeup. Sometimes she was sitting with