The dinner lasted more than two hours, but the whole delegation was very satisfied and thought it tasted great. China is a country of foodies, and the only one who can wrestle with China in terms of food is probably France. As a top restaurant in France, the taste of Maxim's Restaurant is naturally top-notch.

Coming out of the restaurant, Xu Wangqiu is ready to go to the Flora Café with Pierre Cardin and chat with French filmmakers. He originally wanted to ask Zhang Yimou to come along, but considering that Zhang Yimou's foreign language was not very good and he didn't like to deal with strangers, he was estimated to be bored after going, so he gave up. He walked up to Hu Jian and said, "Mr. Hu, Lao Pi is going to take me to the Flower God Cafe, where there is a gathering of French filmmakers." I've heard that there are quite a few famous directors and actors, and I want to check them out, but I might come back late. ”

If other people ask for leave to go out at night, Hu Jian will definitely not approve it. If he does not come back, he, the head of the delegation, will be responsible, and his future will be ruined, and even the members of the delegation will be implicated. However, he believed that Xu Wangqiu would not do this kind of thing, according to his observation, Xu Wangqiu was not interested in going abroad at all, and should not do such a thing as defection, but he still reminded: "You go, but it's better to come back early, we have to go to Cannes tomorrow!"

Xu Wangqiu smiled and nodded, then got into Pierre Cardin's car and drove towards the Flower God Cafe. When they arrived at the Flower God Cafe, they didn't see the filmmakers at the party, only a few ordinary guests drinking coffee. Pierre Cardin asked the manager of the coffee shop why there was no one at the party. The manager told Pierre Cardin that they were going to talk to the director of the film tonight at the Alain Drôme house screening of "The Rouge de la Rouge".

Coming out of the Flower God Café, Pierre Cardin and Xu Wangqiu got in the car and drove towards Alain Delon's house. Pierre Cardin told Xu Wangqiu that their art salon sometimes organizes movie viewing activities, and after watching the movie, they will exchange and discuss. "La Rouge de la Opera" is a particularly sensational film of late, which has been wildly sought after by young people, and the Parisian newspapers have been full of articles about the film.

Xu Wangqiu had seen "The Singer of the Opera" and knew that this was Jean-Jacques Benex's first feature film. Jean-Jacques Beneces, along with Luc Besson and Léo Carax, is known as the Three Musketeers of the French post-New Wave. Among them, Luc Besson is the most famous, Carax has the highest artistic achievements, and Benex is the earliest of the three to become famous, and his famous work is "The Rouge de la Opera", and the representative work is "The Wild Rose of Paris". However, Benex's films were only good with "La Rouge de la Opera" and "The Wild Rose of Paris", and the other works were rather mediocre, and by the nineties he did not make any more films, turning to the management of the film industry.

The car drove for a while in front of a villa on the outskirts of Paris. The walls are covered with creepers, green and green, and through the iron railing of the gate, you can see that inside stands a baroque villa. In front of the villa was a meadow, and there were all kinds of cars parked next to it, about twenty or thirty cars.

Two strong men dressed in black stood at the gate, and one of them came up and said to Pierre Cardin, "Sir, this is private territory, please leave immediately." ”

Pierre Cardin didn't say much, and directly took out a golden badge and handed it to the man in black. The man took the badge and looked at it, returned the badge to Pierre Cardin, and said very politely: "Sir, you are a member of the salon, you can enter." With that, he picked up the walkie-talkie and asked the people inside to open the door.

The car slowly drove to the yard, and Pierre Cardin and the others found an empty spot to get the car in place and walked down from it. When they came to the door of the villa, the man in black standing at the door opened the door for them. I don't know what's going on, this situation reminds Xu Wangqiu of "Eyes Open".

However, after walking into the room, Xu Wangqiu didn't see the man in black wearing a mask, let alone **. This is a very elegantly decorated living room, with antique furniture, beautiful vases, and impressionistic paintings on the walls. But at this time, the living room was empty, and there was no one left.

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "I thought that when I came in, I would see a house full of **, men and women wearing masks, all kinds of promiscuity/sex." ”

Xu Wangqiu is talking about the upper-class party in "Eyes Wide Open", which will not be released until 1999, and Pierre Cardin naturally does not know. However, he was taken aback when he heard Xu Wangqiu's words, because that kind of party does exist, but that kind of party is a game that the rich people in the upper class like to play.

If someone else told it, he wouldn't be surprised, but Xu Wangqiu is Chinese, and he claims to have never been abroad, how can he know about this game played by European high society?

Pierre Cardin couldn't help but ask, "How did you know that kind of party existed?"

Xu Wangqiu couldn't explain, so he said with a smile: "I heard from a friend, he said that the rich people abroad are poor and extravagant, and many people are very empty in their hearts, so that they are a little perverted." They organize promiscuity/sex parties and even kidnap underage boys to be slaves on the island. I saw that you guys were so mysterious that you had to have a special badge to get in, which was a bit similar to what he described, and I thought you were playing with this kind of thing. ”

Pierre Cardin laughs: "It's a serious art salon, it's mainly about art, and sometimes there are drunken and promiscuous things, but overall it's okay, I'm a person who doesn't like those things, so I rarely go to the events they organize." ”

Pierre Cardin led Xu Wangqiu through the living room, through the hallway and into a dark room. On the wall facing the entrance is a screen showing "The Rouge de la Opera". Xu Wangqiu watched it through the light of the movie, and there were about twenty or thirty people in the room, both men and women, but they couldn't see their appearance clearly. They found a place to sit down and watch the movie quietly. The movie has already been played for more than half of the time, but Xu Wangqiu has seen this movie and knows the storyline, so he won't be confused and don't understand what he is talking about.

The story is about Julius, an 18-year-old postman, who is a big fan of the famous black female singer Senia Harvey. Julius secretly brought a very high-quality tape recorder to her concert and secretly recorded Senia's singing. At the same time, Julius also stumbled upon a cassette tape alleging the ringleader of the prostitution and drug syndicates. As a result, Julius is involved in the pursuit of both the police and the underworld.

This film can be regarded as a police movie, but it has a bit of a film noir flavor. The multiple lines in the movie are played at the same time, although it has a dramatic effect, but at the same time, it also makes the film extremely scattered, resulting in a slow pace of the film. In fact, most French movies have this problem, the story is more scattered, and the pace is slow, which may be related to the character of the French. The story and audiovisual language of this film are relatively average, but the cinematography and lighting are great, the sense of form is strong, and the picture is very beautiful.

The movie ended quickly, the lights in the room came on, and the audience began to applaud. Xu Wangqiu and Pierre Cardin will naturally be no exception, and they also applauded.

Just then, Alain Delon, the owner of the villa, saw Pierre Cardin and Xu Wangqiu and walked over.

Alain Delon knows that Pierre Cardin has never been married, and now seeing Pierre Cardin coming over with a young handsome guy, he wonders if Pierre Cardin has come out of the closet. There are a lot of gays among fashion designers, and in the past two years, the famous designers Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent have been in trouble all over the city because of their fight for men. In Alain Delon's opinion, if Pierre Cardin finds a lover, it will be a matter of congratulations for both men and women. He said hello to Pierre Cardin, looked at Xu Wangqiu and said with a smile, "Who is this?"

Pierre Cardin smiled and introduced Alain Delon to Xu Wangqiu: "This is my friend, Xu Wangqiu, an artist from China. Last year, a Chinese film "Hoe Rape" was released in France, and the response was very strong, and he was the director of the film. ”

Alain Delon was surprised to hear that Xu Wangqiu was the director of "The Rape": "It turns out that you are the director of "The Rape", and that movie is fantastic. I watched it with Truffaut and, after watching it, he told me that the director of the film was a genius. ”

The rest of the audience was also very surprised to hear that Xu Wangqiu was the director of "The Rape", which shook the film industry after its release in France last year, and the film has a lot of innovation in audiovisual language, and the technique is extremely skillful, and the critics exclaimed that after Satyajit Rey and Akira Kurosawa, another talented Asian director has been born. They never dreamed that the director of "The Rape" would be so young that he looked like a film school student.

Xu Wangqiu has a good impression of Alain Delon, not only because of classic movies such as "Zorro" and "Lone Killer", but more importantly, he is particularly friendly to China. He smiled and said, "Mr. Alain Delon, it's a great pleasure to see you. ”

After a few pleasantries, Alain Delon introduced Xu Wangqiu to the guests, and he pointed to a short man in his forties, as well as a beautiful girl in her twenties next to him: "This is Mr. Polanski, this is Miss Natasha Kinski." ”

Xu Wangqiu is very fond of Polanski's "Chinatown" and "The Pianist", and he also asked Polanski when he went to Nortel in 2008. Natasha Kinski's father is the famous German actor Klaus Kinski, who lived with Roman Polanski at the age of 16 and starred in Polanski's movie "Tess", and became famous in one fell swoop. Because she has both pure and sexy temperament, she is favored by big directors and is known as the first beauty in the European film industry in the 80s.

Xu Wangqiu stretched out his hand very politely: "Mr. Polanski, I am your loyal fan, and I especially like your "Chinatown". ”

Polanski's melancholy eyes twinkled with surprise, "The Rape" is a very good film, and the director shows amazing creativity in the film, and the method is so mature that it is hard to believe that it was written by a young man in his twenties. However, he didn't show his doubts, stretched out his hand to shake Xu Wangqiu, and said lightly: "It's a pleasure to see you, "Hoe Rape" is an outstanding movie, I like it very much." ”

Xu Wangqiu stretched out his hand to Natasha Kinsky, smiled and praised: "Miss Natasha Kinsky, I have seen "Tess" starring you, you are simply more beautiful than in the movie." If Catherine Deneuve is the first lady of European cinema, then you are the first beauty of European cinema. ”

No matter how beautiful a girl is, she likes to be complimented, and Natasha Kinski is no exception, smiling brightly: "Thank you." She looked at the director in front of her, who looked younger than herself, and said with a little curiosity: "I have never seen a director as young as you, and it looks like a film school student." ”

Xu Wangqiu thought to himself that I was a student of the film academy, although I didn't go to class anymore, he didn't want to talk about it, and said nonsense: "China is a socialist country, socialism pays attention to equality, new directors and old directors are completely equal, as long as you are good enough, you can get opportunities." ”

Alain Delon introduced Xu Wangqiu to the rest of the people present: "This is Mr. Claude Chabrol, this is Mr. Andrei Zuraski, this is ......"