In addition to the daily fact in Italy, Time magazine in Germany and screen in Britain gave two stars.
The German "time weekly" and "the film begin with a strange cold tone, firmly catching the audience's attention. It is very attractive from the setting to the concept, and the cold mechanical performance is the icing on the cake. However, after entering the middle of the story, he began to lose his way. The director didn't seem to be able to fully determine his narrative focus. He not only lost the biggest core of black humor: "human transformed into an animal."; Moreover, on the theme of love and family, relationship and class, there is a vacillating deviation, which leads to the dissipation of all the energy accumulated in the first half of the period. "
Between the lines, you can deeply feel the German media's "hate iron but not steel". Later, the magazine specially wrote an in-depth film review to analyze, from the whole story framework to the main clues and then to the layout of the branch lines, and then deeply analyzed the story's starting and ending, expressing deep regret for the "chaos" of the final product, They think that "Eugene lansmus has the chance to shoot a masterpiece that is famous in history.".
At the same time, the article also emphasizes the excellence of the whole cast, not just Langley. Ben westshaw, Rachel Weitz, John C. Reilly and other actors have all contributed wonderful performances. Seemingly dull but actually clever way of performance gives the role more connotation that is worth exploring, which is also the reason why the article thinks that "film has countless possibilities".
"In the whole script, or in the whole movie, the only clear-cut and three-dimensional character is David played by Langley hall.
With the combination of emotion and the advancement of thought, lanli hall gives the role unlimited possibilities in the limited space; Unfortunately, this is the only complete role, and the lack of details of other roles makes the actors have no more room to play, which also limits the further development of the film.
The final result is that David and other characters, David and the main line of the plot are also slightly separated, because the real core idea interwoven by the role and the plot has not been clearly established, and the cohesive force also presents a state of collapse, which affects the audience's co singing. "
Later, this article came into the attention of the "lobster" crew. Langley even took the initiative to share the article's views with oggs, and both sides exchanged opinions.
During the film promotion period, oggs also expressed his gratitude publicly, not only to the reporters of German "time weekly", but also learned a lot from it; And mentioned his discussion with Langley before the film started. Obviously, they all realized the problem and tried to make adjustments.
"As they said, the role of lanli is undoubtedly the most complete and clear, because lanli knows what he is doing and where he should go. This film can reach the present height, and lanli's role is far bigger than he imagined; Unfortunately, we didn't spend enough time to polish all the other characters, and the core ideas of the second half of the story didn't come together. The final product really has room for improvement.
I think that's why we need to keep learning and growing. "
Engels not only accepted the opinions with an open mind, but also completed the review; But also a sincere exposition of the original lenley picky episode, let him really realize that an excellent actor for the whole film is irreplaceable importance.
In this way, North America and Europe won a good cheer. Not only did they not make complaints about lobster, but they also had more interest.
This also makes "lobster" win a good position in the award season - of course, this is the future.
Back to Cannes.
The last media to comment on the two stars is the British "screen".
"Indeed, 'lobster' is a different and enlightening work. It presents the current situation of our life with a kind of mirror shooting technique. It makes us start to reflect on our marriage and social class. The cold lines like a scalpel outline the framework of the whole era. Through the control skills shown in the film, oggs lansmus initially shows his master demeanor, but the gap between him and Stanley Kubrick lies in the humanistic care——
The core theme of the film is cold and alienated, even a little proud, just like the New York Intellectuals mocking other poets pretending to care about the world. This is arrogant and arrogant, can not arouse the audience's resonance.
But we still can't deny that lance moss really boldly challenged some people's sensitive nerves; Similarly, we can not deny that the performance of Langley hall and Rachel Weitz has a keen and delicate touch, which gives the film more profound content.
It's just that we're not sure what 'some content' is
These are the ten media reviews in Cannes official magazine.
It's hard to get too many clues from the score of the magazine. No one can predict the future of "lobster" in Cannes this year. Judging from the current mainstream trend, the French media generally expressed a positive attitude, which is exactly in line with the aesthetic style of the Cohen brothers. It's really promising to win the prize.
But the wind direction is just the wind direction, and the media can not accurately predict the preferences of the jury, which is nothing new in the three major European film festivals.
In the end, the official magazine was hot, with two five stars, four three stars, three two stars, and one star. Finally, in the evaluation of the full score of four, "lobster" got two point seven.
First of all, comments are relatively average; Secondly, the number of five stars is higher than that of one star, and the number of three stars is also higher than that of two stars. In other words, on the whole, the comments of "lobster" tend to be positive in the debate.
The average score of 2.7 is the most direct manifestation.
For Cannes Film Festival, more than three works can be called "classic works", such as "drunken folk songs" two years ago; But in the history of Cannes Film Festival, there are only more than 20 works that can win more than three points of evaluation.
Two seven points, this is already a very good evaluation, so what is the position of "lobster" in the main competition unit? It can be seen at a glance in the hands of the official magazine.
Today is the sixth day of Cannes Film Festival. The annual grand meeting is just half over. The screening plans of the main competition, the director fortnightly, a kind of attention and other unit departments are steadily unfolding. Among them, eight works have been screened in the most popular main competition unit, and all the scores are publicly presented
"Haijie diary", 2.5.
"The story of the story," 2.0.
Son of Saul, 2.8.
"My mother," 2.7.
6.
"My king," 1.4.
"Market law", 2.3.
Lobster, 2.7.
There is no need to analyze at all. The overall pattern of the main competition unit is very clear.
Gus Van Sant's "the sea of trees in the green woods" landed in Cannes under the expectation of many people, but encountered unprecedented full-scale street fighting. This work, starring Matthew McConnell, faced with a lot of verbal and written criticism, created the lowest score of Cannes since the 21st century, which is extremely tragic.
Hungarian director Laszlo nemes's debut feature film "son of sol" was rejected by the main competition unit of Berlin Film Festival at the beginning of this year. Although it can be shown in non competition units, the main creative team decided to give up Berlin and come to Cannes, which finally ushered in a huge success. At present, it leads the field magazine with the highest score of 2.8 points, But also at the premiere to win the full house, the Cohen brothers and Sienna Miller are tearful.
Then... Italian director Nanni Moretti's new work "my mother" and oggs lansmus'.
So what does that mean?
The answer is: it doesn't mean anything.
The magazine is a magazine, and the score is the score, while the award is another matter. The aesthetic appreciation of media reporters can not represent the opinions and opinions of the jury.
But one thing is for sure: "lobster" is far less severe than the attack on the street, or even less severe than the attack of "detached" at the beginning; After "anti cancer me", Lan Li, who once again challenged the comedy performance, unexpectedly refreshed the public impression and once again brought a novel performance.
It can be said that not long ago, Lan Li, who won the second Oscar, still maintained his consistent high level.
That's enough.
What's more, even if it's on the street, lanli is still able to ignite the discussion of reporters; So, it doesn't matter to journalists.
"So, how does it feel?" Waiting for Langley to finish reading the magazine, Bradley gave a lead.
Lan Li pursed the corners of his mouth. "I really want to see the two works of 'son of Saul' and 'sea of trees in Aoki Hara." The highest score and the lowest score.
Bradley couldn't help laughing.
Gavin asked curiously, "why? Just because of good reviews and bad reviews? "
"Partly. I have to admit, what kind of work did Gus shoot to make the media score so low. " Lanli once again glanced at the magazine: six stars and one star, four media refused to comment, which is really too bad, "if I remember correctly, when the elephant premiered in Cannes, because of the controversy, there were even reporters fighting at the media conference. I guess it's the same with this work? "
In the last life, lanli never watched the work "Qingmuyuan Shuhai" because he didn't think it was necessary, but now his perspective and ideas have changed, and he really has some curiosity.
"Previously, Christopher Nolan personally confirmed that Matthew McConnell was the number one choice for Star Trek, but he chose you in the end. After missing this work, it seems that Matthew's works in the past two years have not been able to meet the expectations, and are generally regarded as the curse of the little golden man. What do you think of this encounter of "Aoki yuanshuhai"