When I woke up the next morning and had breakfast, Li Qian was leaving.

James McCullough gave him two pipes, a box of cherished cigars, and a small bag of about a few hundred grams of pipe tobacco, and Li Qian thanked him, shaking hands, hugging, and saying goodbye to the family one by one.

When the family was sent out of the door, Elizabeth suddenly asked, "Qian, when I have my summer vacation, can I go to China to find you?" can you take me on a trip, or...... Something like that. ”

Without waiting for Li Qian to answer, Helena turned her head and glanced at her daughter in surprise when she heard this.

Li Qian said: "Of course, you are welcome at any time......! Well, I will have a movie in July and August, and when the time comes, I don't think I will have time to travel with you. ”

Helena grabbed ahead of her daughter and said, "Oh, that's a shame!"

Who knows, at this time, Elizabeth's eyes suddenly lit up, "Really? Your new movie is about to start shooting? What kind of story is it? If I go to China, can I visit the crew? Or...... Are you missing an assistant?"

After a pause, she said excitedly: "I'm very good at crew things! I've been my father's assistant since I was seven or eight years old!" She danced, "I can be an assistant director, and I have no problem with photography, my father said I'm very talented in photography! Oh my God, I want to witness the birth of your next work!"

There are some things that she didn't say yesterday, but today she said it very slippery, "I like your "Red Sorghum", but I like your "Once Upon a Time" even more, although my father said that your "Once Upon a Time" is very poorly made and is a purely commercial film, but I like it!

James McCullough looked at his daughter with a bewildered expression.

Although he may not know how many times he has been told by his daughter that he is outdated, in Li Qian's mind, it is estimated that every time he listens to it, he should have a feeling of being hit hard.

"Qian, will that be a cooler movie than Once Upon a Time?"

"Of course! it will be even cooler than Once Upon a Time!"

"YES!

Elizabeth's face was at a loss, but James didn't look inappropriate, but laughed and said, "Baby, you will let Qian be sued in court for using underage staff!"

Li Qian still wants to say: China does not have such a law, and even if it does, it is not as strict as that of the United Kingdom.

Of course, he didn't say it.

At this time, he looked at Elizabeth's eager face and smiled: "Yes, but ...... How about learning Chinese well? The vast majority of the staff in my crew are Chinese, you know. You joined my crew, you can't let so many people talk to you in English, right?"

Elizabeth was immediately deflated.

Helena regained a bright smile on her face - the French rose, who was in her forties, once she smiled happily, her prosperous beauty was still enough to surpass Elizabeth, who had not really bloomed.

In this way, Li Qian waved his hand and got into the car.

When Li Qian left, the car picked up dust and gradually disappeared on the road in the distance, Helena turned her head and glanced at her daughter, "Elizabeth?"

"Huh?" Elizabeth didn't reply.

"Qian is a very handsome oriental man, and he's very talented, isn't he?" asked Helena.

James heard the sound and turned his head to glance at his daughter.

Elizabeth didn't reply, just nodded slightly, "Yes." ”

Then, without waiting for her mother to speak, she said directly: "Mom, you want to tell me that you shouldn't have chosen to elope with a foreigner at the age of fifteen or sixteen, right?"

Helena's mouth opened slightly, and all the words were held back.

James hurriedly said, "Hey! Elizabeth!"

Elizabeth turned her head and smiled brightly, "Actually, Mom, I think you did a great job!"

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Cannes at the end of May and the beginning of June, and even exaggeratedly, the whole of France at this time was shrouded in the halo of the Cannes Film Festival.

This is another grand event for the entire world film industry.

Filmmakers from all over the world are coming to Cannes with their works, including Hollywood producers and directors who have been derided by European masters as "dollar films", as well as superstars who have made waves all over the world.

But Li Qian continued not to join in the fun.

After leaving the Lake District in England and returning the rented SUV to Manchester, he then took the train from Manchester to London, but this time, he did not fly directly from London to Cannes, but chose to take a ferry, cross the English Channel, and enter France.

Then, like a true lone traveler, he stopped and looked at the road along the way, even watching a Ligue 2 match in Paris.

It wasn't until the Cannes Film Festival was about to close that he slowly returned to Cannes.

It was a rare trip in recent years for him to be completely relaxed.

The result was a half-finished briar pipe, countless photographs, a wallet full of ticket stubs, and bits and pieces bought all over England and France.

When he returned to Cannes, he gave everyone something small, the two girls, Qin Nuo and Zhao Yingying, both found it very interesting, and Jin Han and they were a little confused.

Before leaving, Li Qian said that he was going to visit a friend, but who knows, he actually wandered around Europe - you know, this is the Cannes Film Festival!

Everyone was excited and excited, but he took the opportunity to go out for a trip.

But Li Qian ignored them, first cared about the response of "Peacock" in Cannes, and learned that after the film was screened at the film festival, the word-of-mouth response from all walks of life was quite good, so he congratulated Jin Han with a smile.

Jin Han has some gains and losses, "Word of mouth is not very useful, let's see if we can win the award in the end!"

Li Qian smiled and didn't comment, just helped him relieve pressure, "Normal! It's still normal! Winning the award is the best, and not winning the award won't affect anything." ”

In fact, he knows that he doesn't care how he disdains the guys who engage in literary films in China, but in fact, Jin Han's admiration for European art films and his yearning for awards at the three major European film festivals are actually in the same vein as those in the domestic literary and art film circle.

This is not surprising.

From Jin Han's entry into the Suncheon Film Academy at the end of the 80s to his graduation from university and his start to run the crew, it was a period of time when the Chinese film industry actively sought its place in the world film forest, and finally won the Venice Golden Lion Award with Qin Wei, who was more satisfactory to the Chinese people.

Therefore, as a first-hand witness at that time, Jin Han had this complex.

But is it possible to win such a thing...... I can only wait!

John Days told Li Qian privately that there is a chance to win the award, but it is not big, and the information revealed within the jury, everyone's evaluation of the movie "Peacock", is more inclined to give praise to the cinematography and heroine of the film, and the rest, they think that it has not reached a certain high level.

As for Ming Xiaojing's first directorial work "Unfinished Love", which is full of the fatalistic view of cause and effect reincarnation, some European filmmakers will be interested, but more people do not recognize this logic.

Therefore, John Days personally predicts that "Peacock" may be able to get a consolation award, but "Unfinished Love" is estimated to get nothing - the chairman of the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival is the famous French director Jean Naelle, who is a relatively conservative guy.

The so-called relatively conservative concept means that he is more willing to respect the traditions and concepts of European cinema in the past.

In other words, including Chinese films, Hollywood films, Japanese and Korean films, etc., it is not easy to win awards in his hands.

On the contrary, Indian films, Iranian films, and even Greek films, etc., are full of expectations and are happy to be encouraged by awards from more traditional European filmmakers.

In the end, John Days was half right.

Jean Nael is indeed more conservative, but under the pressure of public opinion, he can't be completely indifferent, and in the face of really good films, he can't screw up with the entire jury.

So, at the closing ceremony and awards ceremony, "Peacock" won the Best Actress award.

This is the first Chinese actress at the Cannes Film Festival!

And as a result, the best actress in Venice, Berlin, Cannes, the three major European film festivals, was completely brushed by Chinese actresses!

Zhao Yingying, who was still studying in school and took leave to participate in the film industry this time, was dumbfounded, until she came to the stage to accept the award, and she still looked overly frightened.

At the same time, John Days was also a little surprised, and when Zhao Yingying was a little excited and stumbling to deliver his acceptance speech, he leaned over and said to Li Qian: "Qian, I can guarantee that this must have something to do with what you said in Berlin this year!"

After a pause, he emphatically said: "Your words have touched European literary and artistic filmmakers a lot. ”

Li Qian smiled back.

Kim Han was both surprised and disappointed.

His "Peacock" went to Europe for the first time to participate in the film festival, and he won a Cannes actress, in terms of honor and ability, he can be ranked third among contemporary Chinese filmmakers - after Qin Wei put Ming Xiaojing on the throne of Venice actress, and Li Qian put Qin Jingjing on the throne of Berlin actress, he also successfully won a Cannes actress.

This is the first Chinese actress in Cannes, and the third Chinese actress in the three major European film festivals.

However, apart from this actress, "Peacock" has no gain - before coming to Cannes, Jin Han once privately said that the Palme d'Or is not expected for the time being, he just hopes to win a jury award, otherwise the third highest technical award in the award is already very satisfied.

However, his hopes were dashed.

On the contrary, Zhao Yingying, who was not particularly optimistic before, was just in her early twenties, and she was actually sealed!

Of course, "Unfinished Love" is even more miserable.

They also signed up for the main competition unit, and then, nothing.

In the middle of the awards, Li Qian quietly glanced over, sitting in the middle of the crew of "Unfinished Love" not far away, and various emotions such as disappointment, loss and helplessness on Ming Xiaojing's face flashed on his face.

At the end of the awards, many people took the initiative to congratulate Zhao Yingying, Jin Han and John Days stayed with her, and Ming Xiaojing walked directly towards Li Qian.

"Qian'er, congratulations. ”

Li Qian smiled and said, "Thank you, Sister Ming." ”

In terms of the rarity of Chinese films and Chinese filmmakers winning awards in Europe in the past few years, although "Peacock" has not won other awards and overall awards for the film, it is only the achievement of the first Chinese Cannes actress, which is eye-catching enough.

Although Jin Han failed to complete the sermon in his heart, through the success of "Peacock", he can even successfully enter the ranks of domestic first-line directors - of course, the lower reaches of the first-line.

And Zhao Yingying's addition of the queen means that in a company of Minghu Culture, there will be two fresh and hot European film festival queens in hand - considering that Ming Xiaojing won the award ten years ago, and her long-standing concept of film has also made her commercial value really limited, so with Qin Jingjing and Zhao Yingying's Minghu culture in hand, it is simply the acting school that dominates domestic actresses!

Coupled with He Yingyu's huge commercial value, Bai Yujing's extremely high popularity, and Cheng Subei, Liu Yan, Zhao Qing, Lu Lingxi and other first-line actresses, it shows that Lake Culture has dominated the domestic actress circle, and it is not an exaggeration - yes, Fu Hongxue is outstanding, and the trinity of commercial value plus acting value plus appearance value is currently faintly beyond He Yingyu and Qin Jingjing, but she is the only one.

Except for Fu Hongxue, the most popular actresses in China in the past three or five years have almost never slipped through the net, all of them are under the banner of Minghu Culture.

It's just a bit of a stylized congratulations, but at this time, the relationship between the two parties has long since lost its intimacy and cordiality, and even if Ming Xiaojing wants to say something else, there is nothing to say.

So, after congratulating Li Qian, Ming Xiaojing nodded at him with a complicated smile, and turned to Zhao Yingying - don't look at Ming Xiaojing who once stood in line with Qin Wei very unwisely, thus offending Minghu culture and Li Qian, but that doesn't mean that her emotional intelligence is low.

You must know that this year, with the amazing show of "Red Sorghum" at the Berlin Film Festival, and now there are two more domestic films to compete for awards in the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival.

If Zhao Yingying won the Cannes actress, and Ming Xiaojing, who was at the scene of the Venice actress, didn't go over to congratulate her, it would be basically a big mistake that could not be escaped, and she would definitely be featured by the domestic media - as soon as she passed like this, even if she barely squeezed out a smile, the domestic report articles would be written as flowers. Everyone loves to watch this!

Therefore, although she must be quite lost in her heart at this time, she still has to go to Zhao Yingying's side to take a picture - in fact, being a public figure is really tiring.

As soon as she walked away, a familiar figure approached.

Zhou Jingyi looked at the excitement and the stars around Zhao Yingying over there with a look of fascination, shook her head with envy, sighed, and then turned her head to look at Li Qian, and said, "Are you familiar with Cannes? Find a place to drink together?"

Li Qian smiled, thinking that it had been a long time since he had drunk a little together, and he was really not qualified as a drinking friend, so he said, "Okay, let's be together at night." ”

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It's about to drop to forty, this ...... I really want to break out to show you, but there have been a lot of chores lately, anxious! anxious! anxious! anxious!

Ask for a few tickets first, brothers!