Winter went to spring, the days passed day by day, and Xu Chunqiu gradually regained his strength.

It was also the winter of this year, and since its release in China, the box office reputation has been rising, and the widely acclaimed "Confined to Day and Night" has officially been publicly confirmed to be released overseas.

When Xu Chunqiu first heard the news from Tang Ze, his reaction was actually quite flat.

It's not that she hasn't had a film released overseas, and the "Crazy Day" with Feng Tusheng was released simultaneously at home and abroad.

Tang Ze was on the other end of the phone, and secretly scolded this kid in his heart for not being enlightened: "You don't know what overseas releases mean to you!"

"The Venice Film Festival is in September, as long as the director's "Confined to Day and Night" hits theaters in Europe, and the Golden Lion and Volpi Cup in September, you will have a chance to compete. ”

Xu Chunqiu locked the screen and curled up his hands and feet back into Lu Xiu's arms.

He lowered his head, kissed her on the top of her hair, and asked casually, "Tang Ze?"

Xu Chunqiu nodded and gave a gentle "um".

"What did he say?"

Xu Chunqiu raised his face: "If nothing else, I should go to Venice again in September this year." ”

......

As soon as the news was released, the first to get excited were the Chinese who settled overseas and the groups of international students scattered around the world.

"Really, my God, is "Confined to Day and Night" going to be released overseas?

"The international students in Jiacun burst into tears on the spot, hesitating every day to see pirated resources on the Internet, and now they finally don't have to worry about it?"

"Tu Zisu doesn't have the international influence of Feng Tusheng, I originally thought that this movie didn't have a chance to be seen in the cinema, but I never expected that I was still thinking about it yesterday and announced that it would land in theaters today. ”

"Support the genuine version, this must be supported, isn't Xu Chunqiu's performance worth the price of a movie ticket, won't the conscience of those who sell pirated resources on the Internet hurt?"

"The domestic evaluation of this movie is about to blow to the sky, is it really that good?"

"I was looking forward to it, I was looking forward to ......"

“......”

Charles lives in Lyon, France, and is an independent film critic.

He is not the kind of layman who makes gags and complains, but a serious student who made up his life, and later missed the industry by mistake and changed careers to do film reviews.

Like most people, he always has a preference when it comes to watching movies, and he doesn't like Asian movies, especially those from East Asian cultures.

Charles always felt that the way Oriental people expressed their feelings was too subtle, whether it was love or hate, the feelings should not be vigorous, where did so many twists and turns come from.

But that's what film critics eat, whether they like it or not, watching movies has evolved from a mere entertainment to a part of his work.

Charles sighed and walked into the screening room with his movie ticket in the sweet smell of popcorn.

The screening room was not full, it was empty, and almost all of them were Chinese except for him.

This is actually not too surprising, if it weren't for the task on his back, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to choose this movie.

If it is a Feng disciple, it is better to say that his main battlefield itself is international, and he himself is a Chinese who grew up in France.

Tu Zisu's popularity only stays within the scope of China, many Westerners have more or less heard of Feng Tu Sheng, and Tu Zisu's name is completely unfamiliar, and they have never heard of it.

Europeans are not sensitive to Asian facial features, and even if they remember last year's Venice Film Festival, there was an Asian girl who lost last year's Venice Best Actress Jill Leonard, and missed the Volpi Cup, few people can match the Asian girl's face with Xu Chunqiu.

The huge screen in front of him lit up, and the film began.

The film "Day and Night" was not re-dubbed when it was introduced, but completely retained the original voice of the actors, but added an extra layer of French translation under the Chinese subtitles.

A line of titles emerge from the pitch-black curtain, which is the French translation of the film, "L'immortel".

L'immortel, eternal life, a puzzling name.

Charles sat back in the upholstered seat, his posture a little broken, his eyes falling on the big screen in front of him, an Oriental man who seemed to him too elegant and delicate held up a small baby, and dropped a kiss on her forehead almost reverently.

A love story with a subtle taste unique to the East.

Charles watched and watched, his expression gradually changed a little, neither because of the plot of the film, nor because of the performance of the actors, but because of the techniques used by the production team in the filming of this film.

The so-called "laymen watch the excitement, insiders watch the doorway", many film critics after learning too much about filming techniques, when they sit in the cinema, they will lose the fun of watching movies to a certain extent, and always unconsciously begin to analyze the lens language on the big screen.

And this "Confined to Day and Night" has achieved the ultimate in shooting techniques and lens language.

Just from the perspective of the lens between the hero and heroine, you can feel the age gap between the two people, when Xiao Lin called Ji Shanhai "Uncle Ji" day and night, most of the shots given to the male protagonist were shot from the back, and the director brought out the tallness of this image through such techniques.

However, as its name suggests, "L'immortel", this is a man who will never grow old, so the upward shot gradually evolves into a head-up shot, and then a faint tilt towards an overhead shot.

Vertical shooting, overhead shooting, head-up, wide-angle, mid-focus, telephoto, orbital lenses, orbital rocker combination lenses, probe miniature lenses, Steadicam lenses, and even 360-degree surround lenses.

No, not only the shooting techniques, but also the editing and composition in post-production, zoom, split-screen, upscaling, jump cut, interior montage, exterior montage, symmetrical composition, golden section composition, quarter-quadrant composition......

In the 100 years since the birth of the film, the director has been eager to cram all the techniques into this short 120 minutes. A variety of shooting techniques are piled up, and the most important thing is that each technique is actually just right.

Perhaps the layman will not be able to see the many ways in which there are so many of them, they can't name these techniques, and they may not even be aware of their existence, but Charles learned this, and it is precisely because he knows him how rare it is to know such a skillful, almost dazzling lens language.

This requires the production team to spend a lot of time in the early stages of filming to conceive the storyboard, and the director who leads the shooting must have a solid foundation and experience, otherwise it will look ingenious and counterproductive.