"It's boring. The Oscars, Berlin Film Festival, and Cannes Film Festival all seem to have nothing to do with our Chinese films this year!"
"Who says it's not the case? Where's Director Dog? Why has he disappeared?"
"That's right. If the dog director doesn't come out and show off, I won't be used to it."
"Just wait until August. This year's Venice Film Festival will be very interesting."
"Yes, it's not just "Cinema Paradiso" directed by Gou. According to current news, there are three Chinese films that are expected to compete for the Venice Golden Lion this year!"
"Hahaha, there's no drama, they're all accompanying me. Director Gou's "Cinema Paradiso" has such an obvious advantage."
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Netizens have a rare consensus of opinion. They all think that this year’s Venice Film Festival is the mainstream!
Who let Li Yi's "Cinema Paradiso" show its signs so early?
In addition, there are no Chinese films winning awards in Cannes and Berlin, so naturally, we can only watch the Venice Film Festival, which will be held at the latest.
Then news came that Li Yi and "Cinema Paradiso" were once again on the hot search list.
Li Yi wanted to say something this time, it was really not me who caused the trouble this time.
what news?
Of course, the list of jury members for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been announced.
Berto Manning suddenly appears on the list again, and there is no doubt about his position. He is the chairman of the jury of this year's Venice Film Festival!
"Damn it, doesn't this mean that "Cinema Paradiso" is stable?"
"It must be stable! You must know that "Cinema Paradiso" was poached to the Venice Film Festival by Bertolt Manning to a certain extent. If this film does not win an award, wouldn't it be a slap in the face?"
"Didn't we agree to be fair and just? Isn't this an implicit decision? Where is the authority?"
"Upstairs, did you just get access to the Internet? Are you fair and equitable? Which film festival is fair and equitable? It's all about sharing pork, and it's all about human nature!"
"Whether it's the Oscars, Cannes, Berlin Film Festival, or Venice, it's all the same routine!"
"Why do I think it's not the dog director who wants to win the award, but these film festivals want to give him the award?"
"If we win Venice and go to Berlin next year, wouldn't it be a direct Grand Slam?"
"Are you thinking shit upstairs? How can it be that easy? Although Berto Manning's appointment as the chairman of the jury of this Venice Film Festival does mean that at least "Cinema Paradiso" will not return empty-handed, but it may not be the Golden Lion The prize, maybe a silver lion, or a consolation prize is hard to say.”
"Do you really think the other competition films are vegetarian?"
In fact, this time it is indeed obvious that "Cinema Paradiso" will not return empty-handed, it basically has no chance of running away.
But which award it can win really depends on the quality of the film itself.
"Cinema Paradiso" is endorsed by Bertolt Manning, but that doesn't mean that other films have nothing to do with it. In fact, none of the films in the main competition every year has anything to do with the members of the film festival's jury. of?
Not to mention anything else, just because the judges and the director are from the same country, they are related.
So, this is also one of the rules of the game.
After all, the film festival still needs to maintain its authority, so even if it's a related party, if you want to win an award, you have to look at the film itself.
However, this year Li Yi, apart from anything else, feels that the movie "Cinema Paradiso" must at least win the Silver Lion Award to match it.
After all, it can be said that this movie is extremely special in the entire world of cinema.
And this is an Italian movie, so it is only natural that the Venice Film Festival should praise this movie.
Of course, the premise is that this movie is indeed good enough!
Time passed in confusion.
This year's Venice Film Festival obviously focuses on Chinese films.
Especially after July, when the Venice Film Festival announced the main competition unit film list.
It has made countless Chinese movie fans and media focus their attention on this year's Venice Film Festival.
On July 28, the organizing committee of the 77th Venice International Film Festival announced the film list for this year's main competition unit. In the end, a total of 21 films were shortlisted for the main competition.
This is nothing. The key point is that among the 21 films shortlisted for the main competition, there are actually four Chinese films, or four films directed by Chinese directors.
I don’t know if “Cinema Paradiso” was intentional or not, but it was placed first among the 21 films shortlisted for the main competition.
The other three Chinese movies are also quite interesting.
They are from Hong Kong Island, Taiwan and the Mainland!
They are "The Best Time" by Hong Kong's veteran literary and artistic film director Feng Jiaqi; "Forty Years of Tragedy" by Li Tian, a Taiwanese literary and artistic film director; and "Old Man" by Wang Xiao, one of the sixth-generation directors from the Mainland. "Youth".
Interestingly, these three can be said to be direct directors of the Venice Film Festival.
Each of them has won an award at the Venice Film Festival, and Wang Xiao has even won the Golden Lion Award. However, it has been almost ten years.
The other two have both won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, one is the Jury Prize and the other is the Best Director!
From this aspect, it seems that they have more hope of winning the award than Li Yi.
But the result was untimely. If it was in previous years, it might be true, but this year, obviously, no one would think so.
Even they themselves are relatively pessimistic.
Especially when "Cinema Paradiso" became the opening film of the Venice Film Festival, this pessimistic mood became even stronger.
That’s not to say that the opening film must be awesome, but it also means to some extent that this film is a key film promoted by the Venice Film Festival!
Domestic movie fans are celebrating, thinking that with so many Chinese films shortlisted for the main competition this year, and also Li Yi and "Cinema Paradiso" winning awards, they must be a sure winner.
Some movie fans are even fantasizing about whether Chinese films will sweep all the awards at this year's Venice Film Festival?
Although it is a fantasy, the possibility is indeed very low, but at least it gives everyone something to look forward to. What if?
What if the judges at the Venice Film Festival collectively lose their minds?
This year's Venice Film Festival is destined to attract the attention of countless Chinese movie fans and media.
But in fact, compared with Cannes' gradual commercialization, Venice has always adhered to a literary and artistic style!
Of course, the main competition section of Cannes still insists on selecting some cool works, but its other sections, especially the film trading market, have an astonishing turnover, stabilizing at more than 1 billion US dollars!
Hollywood needs Cannes as a screening platform, and other countries also need Cannes as a platform to promote movies or introduce movies.
Therefore, many literary and artistic film people say that Cannes is no longer pure and has become Hollywood.
But the fact is that commercialization has doubled the influence of the Cannes Film Festival, and it has already become the top three European film festivals.
On the contrary, it is almost impossible to see the stalls during the marche du film market in collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival or the similar American Film Market (AFM) in Venice.
The Venice Film Festival has nothing to do with the mass market. In fact, there is no official market at all. You cannot expect to see promotional leaflets or flyers here. The world's oldest film festival is unique.
Of course, this also leads to the fact that the Venice Film Festival is full of glamour, but its influence is not as good as each year.
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