Chapter 1285

Cannes is not as spacious and vast as Berlin, nor as prosperous and noisy as Venice. After half a century of wind and frost in the old and dilapidated film palace, the 25 seat screening hall simply can not meet the market demand.

More Than This. In addition to the main competition unit, there are several links, such as attention unit, special exhibition unit and midnight exhibition. In just 12 days, more than 50 films will land in Cannes. Some works will be shown in the film palace, and some works will be shown in another place one kilometer away. But Cannes, the size of a palm, really has no more space to accommodate the screening hall——

What's more, in addition to May every year, how many small town residents are willing to rush into the cinema? It's just a town with a resident population of barely 70000. As a result, the limitations of the screening venues and the number of people they can accommodate make Cannes unique.

The 2000 audience in Lumiere hall is a drop in the bucket for the whole huge market. In other words, journalists, market and professionals are the main audience groups in Cannes. They watch the shortlisted works of the film festival for the first time.

More than 4000 media reporters constitute the main viewing lineup of Cannes Film Festival. From traditional media to electronic media, from magazine editors to social network celebrities, Cannes Film Festival has brought the communication characteristics of the Internet era to the extreme.

Despite this, countless crowds still flock to Cannes Film Festival in May when early summer comes.

In order to see the style and youth of the top stars, to experience the vanity fair, to feel the life under the spotlight, and to join the ranks of countless film lovers. Different from Toronto, which belongs to the audience, triliuride, which belongs to the film, and Sundance, which belongs to the art, Cannes has innumerable charm of its own, which is fascinating.

Cannes is always like this every year. It's exciting, exciting and eye-catching. The occasions where stars gather are surrounded by surging magnesium lights all the time. Applause and shouts last for 12 days, witnessing the brilliance of the sunrise and the brilliance of the sunset.

This year is even more so.

When the official organizing committee announced the jury list, it attracted the attention of the whole world for the first time.

Steven Spielberg will be the chairman of the jury. Although he has never won the highest award in the three major European film festivals for more than 30 years, he won the Venice Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 and the best screenwriter award of Cannes Film Festival in 1974. All these prove his status and glory.

The jury is also starry.

Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, Christopher waltz, Cristian Mungiu, Lynne Ramsay, Naomi Kawase, vidya balan, Daniel Auteuil.

The composition of the whole list follows the style of Cannes, seeking a balance between art and business, and starlight has become an important reference standard.

Naturally, Ang Lee has two Oscars for best director, two Venice Golden Lion awards and two Berlin Golden Bear awards; So is Nicole, Oscar actress and Berlin actress; Christopher has two best supporting actor Oscars and a Cannes Film winner trophy.

Romanian director Christian mengi won Cannes Palme d'Or in 2007 for "three weeks and two days in April"; Lynn Ramsey is a British director. At present, there are only three short films and three feature films, but she has won a soft hand in the various independent awards. In 2011, "we need to talk about Kevin" was a great success in the American award season.

Naomi Kawase, a Japanese director, is the direct director of Cannes, and "the lovely rosefinch" and "the forest of logs" are the representative works; As a representative of Indian actors, vidya balan will hold a special session in Cannes, which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Indian films.

French actor Daniel Otto is also a veteran actor. He has won Cannes, European film award, British Academy Award and French Caesar Award for his eighth day, hidden camera, heart in winter and man's ambition.

One chairman of the jury and eight members of the jury are all directors and actors. This year's Cannes Film Festival has gone further in terms of professional level, popularity and reputation. No doubt, this also makes the audience more looking forward to the final selection of the Palme d'Or.

According to the jury system of the three major European film festivals, the three highest level awards of Golden Bear, Golden Lion and golden palm are also the most direct embodiment of the jury's artistic appreciation taste.

Then, when the official organizing committee announced the shortlist of competition units, it caused a heated discussion all over the world for the second time.

A rough look at this list is enough to make people excited——

Jim Jarmush's "eternal love", Asha fahati's "past", Nicholas wending Raven's "divine forgiveness", Sanchi Chongshi's "straw shield", Roman Polanski's "Venus in fur", and Jia Zhangke's "destiny"

Francois orjon's "beauty" is zhiyuhe's "father like son", Steven Soderberg's "behind the candlestick", Alexander Payne's "Nebraska", Paul Sorrentino's "beautiful city", and James Gray's "immigrant"

Then there are the "drunken folk songs" of the Cohen brothers.

This is just a part of the list of exhibitors in the main competition.

In addition, other units include Sophia Coppola's "jewel", Alain guiraudie's "stranger by the lake", James Franco's "as I lay dying", Guillaume gailienne's "boys and giyom", duqifeng's "blind detective", Baz luhman's "Great Gatsby"

Wait, wait, wait.

This is a full weight shortlist. It's not just the main competition. A large number of highly recognized and anticipated works have emerged in other units. Each director or Cass lineup has come out alone, which is enough to make all news media flock together. Now, all works come together, how can people not be excited?

What's more, this year's Cannes Film Festival sacrificed the card of Paul Newman.

The official poster uses the late actor Paul Newman and his widow Joanna Woodward as the protagonists. They once offered the classic reverse kiss in their 1963 cooperative work "the new love story". This time, the poster was designed with this inspiration to express the memory of Paul Newman who died with the world in 2008, At the same time, it also aims to commemorate the love between the actor who has made outstanding contributions to the film industry and his wife.

Even before Joanna, Paul had another marriage and had two daughters and a son. When Paul and Joanna met and fell in love, many people suspected that Paul was cheating in marriage, and finally divorced his ex-wife, and then combined with Joanna. At that time, this relationship suffered a lot of criticism and attention.

But the marriage between Joanna and Paul lasted for half a century until death separated them. They are the classic imitative couples in Hollywood. They have no side news and negative rumors. They always keep a low profile and focus on running their own family. Even people in the industry are envious of them.

It's worth mentioning that not only life, but also Paul and Joanna are golden partners at work.

In 1958, the film "long hot summer", which the two actors cooperated for the first time, was shortlisted in the main competition unit of Cannes Film Festival. Paul won the title of film winner, and soon they married; In 1973, Paul directed and Joanna starred in the film "chick Phoenix chant" was once again shortlisted in the main competition unit of Cannes, and Joanna won the title.

This time, Cannes Film Festival prepared a special session to remember Paul, and invited Joanna to Cannes. There is no doubt that the film festival, which was originally bustling, is now surrounded by endless attention.

What's more, this year's Hollywood has sent out the troika of Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Gosling and Langley hall. Even James Franco, Tom sidleston, Matt Damon and other popular actors have to retreat to the second place. They are so powerful and popular that Cannes is hard to resist.

According to incomplete statistics, this year's Cannes Film Festival attracted 480000 people to the scene, which not only created the historical record of Cannes Film Festival, but also created the historical record of the three major European film festivals. Even if it was just may, the heat wave of midsummer could already be felt in this small town.

At this moment, in the train compartment, lanli can already see the tip of the iceberg of the heat wave.

After leaving London, Langley didn't fly straight to Cannes.

He chose the European star, crossed the channel tunnel, entered France from England, arrived in Paris from London, stopped and walked in that well-dressed city for three days, watched the performance of the Russian ballet theater and a small restoration exhibition of Paul Cezanne's lost paintings, and then took the train all the way to Cannes in the south.

It seems to span a long distance across the whole French territory, from the north to the south, but in fact, the train is only six hours, enjoying the beautiful scenery outside the window all the way, slowing down consciously, time will disappear unconsciously, and then the outline of Cannes railway station has appeared in the field of vision.

More than two-thirds of the carriages are already full of passengers, which is not very common in Europe. At this moment, they all start to pack their bags and get ready to leave.

Lan Li's sight Yu Guang noticed a young man on the other side of the corridor. He looked only in his early twenties, and he should be from China.

The reason why he noticed him was that before Langley fell asleep, the young man turned on his laptop and began to watch Lars von Trier's "melancholia". It seems that he should be preparing for this year's Cannes Film Festival and starting to supplement the relevant films before; But now it's the Avengers.

It takes a lot of courage to watch "melancholia" in the noisy and impetuous environment of the train.

The corner of Lan Li's mouth could not help but outline a smile.