After Andy left, Lan Li didn't start working immediately. After an afternoon of sunbathing on the balcony, the night finally starts to get busy as night falls.

Lan Li and Ryan met for a private party hosted by Gilles Jacob, President of the Festival de Cannes, before the official opening, with all the judges in the main competition and the Un Certain Regard in attendance, as well as the crew and celebrities who arrived in Cannes early.

On top of the party, there are all kinds of flowers and flowers, and the blue ceremony is naturally one of the important focuses.

The most interesting moment was the encounter of the "troika", Ranley Hall, Ryan Gosling and Leonardo DiCaprio, the three actors who have been called the most popular troika at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and not only fans and journalists, but also European filmmakers are full of interest and curiosity.

And, of course, Thierry Fumao, who can't be overlooked.

As the owner of the final decision and choice of the shortlisted films at the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and prestigious people in the industry, and there are countless rumors about him in the industry.

But as the chairman of the selection committee, Thierry's work is crucial, he is the guarantor of the quality and starlight of the entire festival, and his skill, ability and taste will determine the direction of the Cannes Festival brand. Tough and iron-fisted, that's his style.

An insider once revealed that 80% of the works shortlisted for Cannes rely on quality, and 20% on others. The so-called others are connections, descendants, interests, and starlight...... And this "20 percent" is precisely the most difficult to control, and the results of Thierry's work in the past ten years are obvious to all.

Everybody loves Thierry Fumao. Everybody hates Thierry Fumao.

Incidentally, Gilles-Jacob became chairman of the selection committee of the Festival de Cannes in 1977, and after 23 years of precipitation and polishing, he became president of the Festival de Cannes in 2000.

In fact, Thierry was a little younger and kinder than expected.

Gray-white hair and dense crow's feet are always easy to misunderstand, he is not fifty-three, but seventy-three, but after the real meeting and talking, that unique artist temperament is indeed different, not the imaginary maturity or cunning shrewdness, but the kind of arrogance that the art creator has, immersed in his own world, in addition to this, mixed with a trace of businessman's calculations.

If it were to be described by Lan Li, he would choose a word with the characteristics of Eastern culture: Confucian merchants.

This is really far from the rumored selection of the Great Demon King. However, Lan Li is sure that Thierry, who is in a state of work and a state of leisure, should have a very different style of acting.

“…… In fact, my original idea was to invite Gravity to be the opening film. "But unfortunately, Alfonso said that post-production will take a lot of time and effort, and maybe even Venice and Toronto won't be able to catch up, is that true?"

Lan Li was slightly surprised.

"Gravity" and "The Great Gatsby" are both Warner Bros. productions and releases. But Lan Li had never heard of such details, and of course, there was no need for Warner Bros. to report it to him.

However, it would be very interesting if "Gravity" replaced "The Great Gatsby" as the opening entry of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

"To be honest, I don't really know. "However, we had a lot of technical problems during the shooting, and Alfonso was trying to solve it and really create a space movie with a unique visual experience, so the post-production was extremely difficult." But the specifics, you're stumped on me, and to be honest, I don't know anything about post-production. ”

It's the truth.

Lan Li really doesn't know much about the complexity of the post-production of the film, but it is certain that the post-production of computer special effects obviously requires more time and energy, not to mention the 3D technology that has really entered the mature period now, and the post-production of "Avatar" is the most typical representative, which took nearly three years before and after.

This time too.

After all the filming of "Gravity" was completed, Lan Li joined the crew of "Drunken Country Folk", but the result was the opposite, "Drunken Country Ballads" was the first to land on the stage of the Cannes Film Festival, but "Gravity" is still in full swing in post-production.

However, in the face of Lan Li's answer, Tieri's eyes flashed slightly, obviously not believing Lan Li's words, but he didn't break it, and still said with a smile, "It's really a pity to do this." Now it seems that Alberto should be very happy. ”

Alberto-Barbera, the new president of the Venice Film Festival.

For Chinese audiences, the most familiar should be the former president Marco-Muller, who once went to China to study, his first wife was also Chinese, after taking over the Venice Film Festival in 2004, Shuicheng opened the door to Chinese-language films, and in the past eight years, it has really achieved a lot of achievements.

During the two cycles of Marco's chairmanship, Venice's international reputation and artistic achievements have been both good and bad, which have caused many controversies, but it is difficult to accurately describe.

On the one hand, Marco took the initiative to open his doors to Hollywood, following the example of Cannes, welcoming countless top stars, and concocting a lot of focus on topics, which also brought considerable financial revenue to Venice, and even Venice's tourism industry has shown a recovery momentum.

On the other hand, Marco's lack of sufficient promotion of local Italian films has triggered a strong backlash from local forces, and at the same time, Marco has invested too much in star effect, resulting in a significant decline in the quality of participating films, and failing to accurately grasp the balance.

And that's not all.

In the face of the onslaught of the Toronto Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival's appeal to Hollywood has plummeted and it has fallen back into a trap, while Italy's economic decline and Venice's high prices have created a contradiction that has led to a sluggish sales market and other studios to discourage other studios.

In addition, in 2007, the ambitious renovation project of the Venice Cinema Palace was sentenced to "capital punishment" last year, first found asbestos toxic substances in the foundation, and then found that the water quality composition of the foundation was no longer suitable for construction, which directly led to the complete failure of the project of the Cinema Palace, which cost tens of millions of euros before and after, but achieved nothing.

Worldwide, because of Marco Mill, people have rediscovered the positive meaning of the Venice Film Festival, and in Europe, because of Marco Muller, people have also rediscovered the Venice Film Festival, negative significance.

Last year, one of the hottest topics in the European art film scene was whether Marco should remain in office, and whether he was willing to fight for it, even during the Berlin and Cannes film festivals, and after much deliberation, Marco chose to step down and be replaced by Alberto, who had chaired the selection committee of the Venice Film Festival from 1998 to 2002.

This year marks Alberto's first year at the helm of the Venice Film Festival, and it has been a lot of excitement and pressure.

The relationship between the three major European film festivals is contradictory, competing with each other and supporting each other, caring for each other and competing with each other.

Behind Thierry's seemingly friendly words, there was a secret speculation and spy, trying to learn further from Lan Li's mouth. Obviously, if "Gravity" ends up in Venice, he will be very, very disappointed, and the feelings of jealousy and envy should not be able to distinguish precisely.

The smile on the corner of Lan Li's mouth rose slightly, and he felt that these intrigues in the art field were actually a bit cute.

"I don't really know, now I can only cross my fingers and start praying. For Warner Bros., they naturally want to catch up with Venice or Toronto, which is good for the box office. But if we missed Cannes, who knows if we'll miss Venice and Toronto?" replied as if he didn't perceive the meaning of Thierry's words.

A shallow smile appeared in Thierry's eyes, and Lan Li's words were implying that the post-production schedule still could not satisfy Warner Bros., and now they were urging that missing Cannes was an accident, and missing Venice and Toronto was also a high probability event.

"Oh, poor Alberto. I'm really looking forward to this year's Venice slate, you know, Alberto's artistic eye is always admirable, and I've always loved talking to him before. Thierry looked sorry and worried, his eyes full of sincerity, without any hypocrisy.

Lan Li shrugged his shoulders lightly and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, I can't participate in this topic. There's definitely an art film list exchange group among you, but I'm not in it. ”

The teasing tone immediately caused Thierry to laugh heartily, but did not respond positively, and then changed the subject.

Thierry never noticed it, and it wasn't until Lan Li turned around and left, and tasted it again, that stamina slowly came up, and he realized that in fact, Lan Li didn't say anything, all of them were his consciousness of taking it for granted, and Lan Li was just a gentle brushing of his hair. When the whole conversation was over, there was not a single leaf in the flowers.

This realization made Thierry slightly stunned, and then the smile rose slightly. More than anger and annoyance, it is more of the absurdity and helplessness that can't help laughing.

It seems that this famous actor is obviously more esoteric and interesting than imagined, and the title of hereditary nobility is definitely not just a false name of a down-and-out nobleman.