Alberto must admit that he was moved.

Originally, it was just a flash of inspiration, but Lan Li's response and posture proved his skill and wisdom, he definitely has the ability to serve as the president of the jury, regardless of age, it has to do with strength, character, attitude, and ability, which makes Alberto can't help but get excited:

If Lan Li can be invited to be the president of the jury of the Venice Film Festival, it will definitely detonate the global focus, and it will be able to spark discussion for a long, long time to come, which coincides with the purpose of Alberto's search for Lan Li today, and even better than the task.

Alberto's whole mind was now filled with this thought, and some couldn't get rid of it.

But Alberto also knew that Lan Li was right: it couldn't be, it couldn't happen in Venice, and even if he invited Lan Li to be a member of the jury, he would have to face many problems

Because of Lan Li's age, but also because of Lan Li's qualifications, another point is that Lan Li has never participated in the main competition of the Venice Film Festival, let alone on the award stage of the Venice Film Festival, that is to say, Lan Li's resume and seniority in Venice are far from being ranked...... All of these factors would be an obstacle for Alberto to invite Lanli to be a member of the jury.

If he did draft the proposal, Alberto could even imagine what he would face next, what criticism he would encounter, and the final rejection would be a high probability event, if not an exaggeration, and that would be the beginning of the disaster when his work was rejected.

After all, the situation in Italy is still different from that of other countries.

In 2012, Alberto was entrusted with the task of taking the helm of the Venice Film Festival as its president, with the task of bringing the festival back to life, but it was no easy task.

As the oldest film festival in the world, the Venice Film Festival's recent history has encountered many obstacles and confusions.

On the one hand, there are multiple internal pressures from Italy, the economic recession, the continuous factional struggles within the industry, the weak attention and support of the new generation, the decline in innovation ability, the overall quality of Italian films has declined significantly, and even the overall cultural atmosphere has declined, which is a fatal blow to artistic creation, and the former European film kingdom is now no longer beautiful.

However, the top people in the film industry refuse to accept the facts, refuse to keep up with the pace of the world, lack of understanding of the development of the industry, and always focus on the local scope, constantly putting pressure on the Venice Film Festival, hoping that the film festival can support more local films, and even let local films regain their glory, but they cannot follow the Berlin Film Festival to set up an official foundation to support local films, because ...... Lack of money, and then get stuck in an endless loop, which in turn leads to a lot of problems.

Every year, the Venice Film Festival has to face severe tests in the selection of the jury, the selection of entries, and the attitude of the local media, etc., all of which limit the attractiveness of the festival to excellent works to a certain extent.

It's as simple as Alberto wants to invite Lan Li to be a member of the jury, but he has to face pressure from domestic practitioners and the top management of the institution.

On the other hand, there are multiple pressures from outside Italy, the Cannes Film Festival has gradually developed its own characteristics, and gradually stood out among the three major European film festivals, forming its own school, with more works signed up for Cannes every year, forming more squeezes on Venice, which is slightly ambiguous; Catching up and surpassing in an all-round way, and then gaining a firm foothold in North America, making full use of the innate advantages of geography to seize the market, the two film festivals were scheduled one after the other, further stealing the audience and works in Venice, which also made Winnie face the dilemma of a comprehensive attack.

Judging from the quality and quantity of the entries registered, Venice has not been able to show enough advantages, it lacks attraction and competitiveness for excellent directors and excellent works, and the selection stage of each year is facing serious constraints, and even the intimacy of Asian films has begun to decline, including the three East Asian countries, the number of outstanding works going to Venice every year is declining significantly.

To make matters worse, the Venice Film Festival has never been able to define its position.

Comparing the Berlin Film Festival horizontally, although the number of moviegoers and the popularity of the discussion are the last among the three major European film festivals, Berlin's positioning is very accurate, from social and humanistic care to the reflection of political/political issues, the close connection between artistic creation and real life, and even in-depth thinking, these have always been the core of Berlin, giving the Berlin Film Festival a unique artistic atmosphere. In this sense, Berlin is in a better position than Venice.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Venice Film Festival is now facing a crisis of internal and external troubles, and many veteran film lovers are even beginning to worry about the future of Venice, and no one knows whether the world's first film festival will suddenly disappear from the public eye at some point.

The resignation of the former president, Mark Müller, is difficult to describe in a number of intricate ways, part of which is the desire to breathe new life into the festival, for the new president to bring a new atmosphere to the festival, and to try to find a way to continue the festival with the longest history and avoid the situation that fans fear.

For Alberto, the first task was to find the right place for Venice: whether it was art or culture, whether it was a promotional model or a marketing position, in short, it was necessary to find a clear idea of how Venice could bloom again, and perhaps Cannes could be a very positive reference model.

At one time, the Cannes Film Festival was controversial because of the frequent invitation to Hollywood films, especially commercial films, Berlin and Venice both believed that Cannes had lost the essence of the festival, becoming more and more commercial and utilitarian, giving up self-insistence for the sake of attention, everything was hype, everything was propaganda, which had nothing to do with film, and even more nothing to do with art, so that people's impression of Cannes was only three "S"s: sun, sea, sexy/sensual (s/e/ x), this is definitely not what a film festival should look like.

At that time, Cannes was considered a "film market" full of copper smell, and all films went to Cannes just to "sell for a good price".

But with the advancement of time, Cannes' thinking gradually became clearer and opened up the situation smoothly:

They invited Hollywood blockbusters or superstars to open the film festival without participating in the competition, creating discourse and focus, attracting attention and attention, while the main competition unit is committed to screening out more high-quality works, and at the same time, based on the world perspective, finding their own place in the global cultural integration, and cultivating "Cannes" descendants in different regions:

For example, Javier Dolan of Canada, Hirokazu Kore-eda of Japan, Michael Haneke of Germany, Christian Mongi of Romania, Nuri-Bilge-Ceylan of Turkey, and Quentin Tarantino of the United States...... And so on and so forth.

The so-called "lineage" means that whenever these directors launch a new work, Cannes will send out invitations as soon as possible, hoping that they can submit their works for a world premiere in Cannes. If the quality of the work is excellent, then it will be the main competition, and even if the quality is slightly unsatisfactory, it does not matter, the director's fortnight, a kind of attention, the opening film of the non-competition, etc., can find a place, and do their best to continue the fate, in this way to maintain the bond of artistic creation.

Over time, Cannes has developed a system, like the "Oscar system", and they also have the "Cannes system", creating the impression that "this film is Cannes style" and "this film is suitable for Cannes", which is undoubtedly crucial for brand promotion.

After the completion of the whole system, the attraction of Cannes to other directors and other works has gradually increased, even if it is not a "Cannes" style work, but because of the strong influence of Cannes, they are willing to sign up for Cannes to increase their exposure, including many American directors, Cannes has become a dream place.

Gradually, Cannes gained fame and fortune, gradually leaving Berlin and Venice behind.

Of course, this long process took more than ten years to brew and promote, which is easy to say, but it is definitely not so easy to operate, and the cultural atmosphere of the whole film festival is also an indispensable part, Berlin and Venice are more or less subject to national, social and cultural constraints, and after all, they have not been able to develop like Cannes, and France has also played a key role in the film fever.

It would be nice if Venice could find its own path in Cannes, but the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, and there are so many problems inside and outside the Venice Film Festival that it is impossible to start.

Regardless of whether the Cannes model can be replicated in Venice, it is certain that even if it were to follow the path of Cannes, Venice would still have to face many obstacles, just like Alberto's inspiration:

Even if it was a good idea to invite Lan Li to be a member of the jury, everyone could see that the positive effects far outweighed the negatives, but there was still little hope for implementation within the Venice Film Festival, and even more absurdly, even outsiders like Lan Li knew that they should try to change, but they would eventually end up hitting a wall, and they themselves still couldn't break down the barriers to complete the breakthrough.

Alberto himself was also powerless, staring at Lan Li in front of him, he could only temporarily put away that/seductive/human thoughts and focus on his original plan.