Since Gu Jun decided to participate in the Cannes Film Festival, he began to collect some relevant information.

This year, there are only two Chinese films participating in this year's Cannes, and Lou Ye's "The Mystery of the Floating City" participates in a kind of attention unit.

Lou Ye is a very typical sixth-generation underground director, who is not well known to domestic audiences, so naturally has no attention.

But Chen Kaige is different, and there are many voices surrounding him.

Most are not optimistic. The sound is also similar to the meaning of 'the master is in the wild, the clown is rampant'.

This may also be the reason why Chen Kaige is so low-key that he doesn't even inform Gu Jun when he is not sure.

What can Gu Jun do, he can only fool himself like this.

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The year is 2012, and this year's Cannes Film Festival is the 65th. Italian director and actor Nanni Moleti is the president of the jury.

Only 54 films produced in 26 countries will be screened at the Palais des Festivals, where the Festival de Cannes is held.

Of course, this is only the release, and there are only 22 films that are really eligible to compete for the Palme d'Or.

The opening date is May 16 and the closing time is the 27th.

Gu Jun arrived in the beautiful town of Cannes in the early morning of the evening of the 24th.

The 25th and 26th were the moments left for him to enjoy the scenery of Cannes.

He was alone at this moment, in this faraway foreign land, and he didn't even have a friend to talk to.

In fact, there are a lot of people who come with the crew, such as Chen Kaige, the relevant staff of the producer, and Da Meiyuan who wants to peach, but they are all busy when the award ceremony is approaching.

Film is an art, film festivals are not, and in addition to the excellent quality of the film, part of the award is due to public relations.

Chen Kaige is busy taking his wife, the heroine of the movie, to attend various drinking parties.

Another reason is because Cannes is not just one of the top three film festivals in Europe.

What's more, it is also one of the largest film markets in the world, and it is said that a small half of all film transactions are done here.

In the same way that domestic people like to talk about things at the wine bureau, Faguo people also have this habit.

That's why there are so many receptions here that are attended by studio owners, producers, rights companies, and film sales managers from all over the world.

Often, in coffee and wine, tens or even tens of millions of transactions are finalized.

Everything is to sell films, and Chen Kaige, who is under huge box office pressure, has to go to the drinking party in person, and even holds his own drinking party.

The cost of the cocktail party is very high, and the cost of an upper-middle level is as high as one million soft girl coins, which is not something that ordinary people can play.

Others, more commonly, rent some fixed stalls and wait for customers to come to their door.

Every year, domestic film and television companies come to Cannes to try their luck.

This has nothing to do with Gu Jun, when others are drunk, drunk, drunk and dreaming of death, he walks through the streets of Cannes with a sunhat.

Located near the port city of Nice in the south of France, Cannes is a beautiful leisure town on the Mediterranean coast.

Nestled at the foot of green hills, on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Rivera Bay is a unique location that locks up several towns along the sea.

Five kilometers of sandy beaches, flowers that never fall at all times, strolling through the city, white buildings, blue sea, and rows of tall and verdant palm trees form a beautiful natural scenery.

Gu Jun lives at the Carlton Hotel, which is very close to the Palais des Festivals, where the Cannes Film Festival is held.

After walking along the road for a while, I came to the entrance of the Festival Palace, which was covered with red carpets.

The red carpet seems to have become the norm for film festivals, even at the township level, and they are not stingy with this expense.

During the Cannes Film Festival, there are basically three premieres every day, and each premiere has a red carpet, and everyone looks at the red carpet as new, and that's because it has to be changed every time.

In Cannes, it doesn't cost you anything to walk the red carpet, as long as you go to the Palace of Festivals to watch a movie, you can walk the red carpet in a bright way.

In later generations, there were some demons and monsters who took a photo and sent it to China, accompanied by the text: "It is a great honor to come to Cannes today." ”

It's an honor, except for the opening and closing ceremonies of the film festival, no one cares whether it's good or not, just buy a ticket and bring a photographer.

Cannes is actually a large-scale film festival, with different films being released every day, and the Cannes red carpet is a passage from the entrance to the main venue, through which everyone goes to the Palais des Festivals to watch a movie.

The Palais des Festivals is an important meeting place for the Cannes International Film Festival, where the most coveted Palme d'Or is awarded.

In addition to being the official venue of the film festival. There are also casinos, nightclubs and many conference halls, which can accommodate up to 30,000 people.

As a member of the crew shortlisted for the Palme d'Or, there is a benefit, that is, you can watch the movie for free in the Festival Palace.

Gu Jun, who was standing in the festival palace, was flipping through a magazine called "Sdaily", which is the official publication of the Cannes Film Festival and the ratings of the films in competition that have been released at this year's film festival.

Not a 100-point system, not even a 10-point system.

It's a five-point system, and under normal circumstances, three points is the benchmark for a good film.

Of the twenty-two shortlisted films every year, only three or four films are able to get above this cut-off score.

This is also the reason why Da Meiyuan happily said that "The World is Worth It" won three points, which is really a very good result.

Of course, the score is not unique, it does not mean that the highest score will definitely win the award.

Only the probability is relatively high, and similarly, the work with a low score has almost no chance of winning the award.

Because the score is the opinion of the film critics, and the award is decided by the organizing committee of the film festival.

"The World Is Worth It" is not the highest-rated work.

As a signed screenwriter, Gu Jun's works with high scores are also his potential competitors.

Today he just came to see who his opponent was.

The highest-rated items on this year's shortlist are "Love", which is about the love of an eighty-year-old couple, and "Over the Mountains", which is about two orphans who reunite in a monastery after a long absence.

Both films have a rating of 3.3. The latter is about the theme of Zongjiao, and it is unlikely that it will win the award, after all, Cannes is famous for staying away from politics and politics.

3.1 and 3.2 are vacant.

The score of 2.9 is "Chills in the Fog Forest", where two guerrilla groups clashed during World War II.

It tells the story of "The Deal of Ke Chai", which tells the story of a gangster-protected poker gambling game that is robbed, and the protagonist is hired to hunt down the looters in order to re-establish the order of the gangsters.

"Rust and Bone" tells the story of boxer Ali who had to put down his self-esteem to play black boxing in order to survive after breaking his hand bone, because of an accident he met the whale trainer of the aquarium, and the two secretly fell in love.

The 2.8 score is about scandals, lies, hatred and suspicion that rumors ruined a man's life in "The Hunt."

"Winged Angels" tells the story of a group of teenagers who are involved in a whiskey theft scandal and strive to change their fate.

It tells the story of a fugitive named Mader who develops a deep friendship with a 14-year-old boy and evades the police with the boy's help in "Sludge".

Coupled with Chen Kaige's "The World Is Worth It", these nine films will share the important awards of this year.