Chapter 1505

The celebration of the 70th Venice Film Festival has not yet come to an end, and the exhibition of the main competition is still in full swing. The 38th Toronto Film Festival can't wait to warm up and get ready for the climax. Since last year, the dates of the two festivals have gradually begun to overlap, The situation of stepping on the beginning of the tail has continued to this year.

From the current situation, Venice is not optimistic, Toronto is rising.

Before the major media in North America had time to marvel at the decline and decline of the Venice Film Festival, the opening ceremony of "gravity" has already ushered in the peak of the whole festival. The average quality and outstanding standard of the entries in the subsequent main competition units are far from reaching the height of "gravity", which is really disappointing; Then the heat wave in Toronto has set off a frenzy of focus and discussion.

"The new history of Toronto's long queue: starting 48 hours ahead of time!" Gravity is a new record

"The Toronto Film Festival is equal to the people's Film Festival, with a queue of more than 2000 viewers. It deserves its reputation."

"Before gravity, the Langley hall mania is spreading in Toronto."

"Camping for two days and two nights in front of the cinema, just to support gravity for the first time: the heyday of Langley hall has come."

"From the wave of praise to the wave of popularity, the global Premiere of gravity is unstoppable!"

"Book the best picture in advance?" "Gravity's strength is opening the 2013 awards season."

"In an orderly but crowded queue, Langley hall is making a new history of the Toronto Film Festival."

"Even if you can't get into the screening hall, the queue is still overwhelming!" Gravity is the biggest hit of Toronto Film Festival

"North American audience, gravity is coming!"

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Although Lan Li appeared in the queue outside the cinema and sincerely advised the fans not to stay up late in the queue, they still need to pay attention to their health, but his appearance has become the "welfare" passed down by the fans from mouth to mouth. Virtually, the queue has not decreased, but also doubled, which makes Lan Li not laugh or cry.

In the end, there were more than 2000 people queuing up at the "gravity" scene, while the premiere screening hall could only accommodate 1000 people. This has become a unique brilliant scene in the history of the Toronto Film Festival. Even after ten years, even if Langley came again, this scene has not been able to appear again, The main reason is that 2013 was too special and too sensational. By chance, it created such a miracle.

Toronto, a close neighbor, is bursting out with incredible energy. The huge momentum of long queues has shocked all audiences in North America, and even spread all over the world. Whether you like it or not, whether you are curious or not, the momentum of "gravity" has spread to a higher level, From Venice's full score screen to Toronto's crowd, the film really dominates the focus of attention in September.

Lanli and Alfonso stayed in Toronto for four days. They were interviewed by more than 200 media, held two press conferences, and held a small fan meeting. From the exclamation of film critics to the love of the audience, they once again lit a flame for the publicity of "gravity" landing in the North American market.

After the premiere of "gravity" in Toronto, it once again successfully ushered in a wave of praise.

Compared with Venice's 15 full marks, Toronto has finally got a non full mark. For a commercial film, this is expected, but the non full mark evaluation appears much later than expected.

Among the 11 important media ratings that emerged from the Toronto Film Festival, there were two non full scores, respectively from "independent Telegraph" and "new Yorker".

"Independent Telegraph", 95 points, "gravity has opened up a real space field that has stripped off the sugar coating, allowing the audience to enter and have a good time in it. The use of many advanced film technologies may fall into misunderstanding at any time, but Alfonso Caron has successfully avoided this and created a masterpiece."

"New Yorker", 95%, "gravity" is not a movie that wins by creativity and thought - just like Stanley Kubrick's "2001 Space Odyssey", but it is still a work that the physiological feeling is magnified to the extreme, and the experience of five senses releases the charm of film. In a sense, the weakness of the story has been made up for by the excellent performance of Langley hall

Although there is no full score, 95% of the praise is still strong enough; In addition to the nine scores, all of them have a full score of 100.

So far, the average media score of "gravity" is 99.6 points. According to the principle of rounding, it is still 100 points for the time being. This also means that after the baptism of two film festivals, the media's high praise rate is still high, which also makes the expectation value continue to rise.

Incidentally, before the New York Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival came to an end.

Venice awarded the Golden Lion prize to the Italian film "the ring of Rome", which is the second documentary to win the highest prize in the history of three major European film festivals. After "Fahrenheit 911" won the golden palm of Cannes Film Festival in 2004, Venice also has the first documentary to win the Golden Lion Prize in its history.

But... Bernardo Bertolucci, the chairman of the jury who once shot "the last emperor" and "Paris in a dream", was scolded by the media and the audience.

In an interview, Bernardo firmly said that he was moved to tears by watching the "ring of Rome expressway", and now there are fewer and fewer film makers who sincerely make documentaries. It is for this reason that he and the members of the jury decided to award the Golden Lion award to this work.

However, other film critics and the audience did not approve of it at all. They thought that the documentary was just a film made for the chairman of the jury of Italian nationality. No one except the Italians could feel the sincerity and moving of the work. Before the opening of the film festival, the worry that the 70th anniversary Golden Lion Award belongs to the "return home" of Italian films has finally happened, which is undoubtedly a major blow to the international reputation of the film festival.

As we all know, the awards of the film festival have nothing to do with the media rating, but the jury is the core. However, even if the rating is put aside, even if the "gravity" is not able to enter the main competition unit, there are still many works that are more worthy of praise in Venice this year.

It is disappointing that the jury headed by benaldo Bertolucci failed to make a fair choice.

The 70th Venice Golden Lion award was later called the most "watery" one in film history by many people, which seems to be exaggerating. But at least it is certain that since the 21st century, this Golden Lion award has received the least recognition and approval, which is undoubtedly worse for Venice, which is in trouble.

The Venice Film Festival, which is about to enter its 71st year, is now facing a serious crisis.

In this context, sighs and wrists about "gravity" missing the main competition unit become more and more frequent. However, Alberto Abella, the new chairman of the film festival, is relieved - if "gravity" still gets cold when it enters the main competition unit, then it is the real public relations crisis.

For Alberto, there is good news and bad news in his first year in office. If he can't think out a clear development idea, the same dilemma will still exist next year.

Toronto's people's choice award also broke out in the cold, "twelve years of slavery" defeated "gravity" and successfully reached the top.

This result can not be completely said to be an accident. It is not so much an unexpected result as an early warning of the award season.

British director Steve McQueen, who worked with Michael Fassbender to produce two wonderful works of "hunger" and "shame", made "twelve years of slavery" focusing on racial issues this time. After the premiere of the Toronto superstar, he received a lot of praise, and the media's praise even surpassed "gravity" for a time——

"Gravity" has nine out of eleven reviews in Toronto, while "twelve years of slavery" has all 18 reviews in Toronto.

Such a situation is similar to "Adele's life" and "drunken folk" in Cannes this year. At that time, "drunken folk" regretfully lost the golden palm; And now gravity has unfortunately missed the people's Choice Award. I don't know if it has something to do with the rebellious psychology caused by the fierce winning momentum of Langley - no one can accurately assert that there is a direct link between the two.

Finally, in the people's Choice Award of this year's Toronto Film Festival, "twelve years of slavery" won the award successfully, "gravity" came in second, and "prisoner" came in third.

Since "Slumdog Millionaire" won the Toronto people's Choice Award in 2008, it has been on its way to the top of the Oscars. The highest award of the Toronto Film Festival has been hailed as a new vane of the North American award season. In the past five years, four people's choice winners have been nominated for best picture.

Now "twelve years of slavery" has been born. In addition to the particularity of focusing on black themes, Brad Pitt's escort, and Fox Searchlight's purchase of the distribution rights in North America, the Academy's public relations in the award season can foresee a bloodbath. Now, it has faintly surpassed "gravity" and become the number one seed.

Of course, it's not that "gravity" is not good enough. It's just that "twelve years of servitude" has also made a strong debut. Therefore, the storm of award season has been brewing.

"Gravity" shows a strong momentum, leaving Toronto and heading for New York.