Last year, "Cinema Paradiso" was also the opening film, but when the red carpet was first walked, all the media's attention was on Al Pacino and Matt Ducute, and basically few people would pay attention to Xu Hui.

After all, compared to the dazzling actors, the director is just a behind-the-scenes person.

However, this time is obviously different, with the halo of the Oscar for Best Director, the media and reporters obviously paid attention to Xu Hui. 、

Moreover, they think that "Cinema Paradiso" only spread to the United States after it became popular in France...

This made the proud French people feel very happy.

Although Xu Hui never said this...

In the evening, the red carpet ceremony of the 67th Cannes International Film Festival officially kicked off.

Jane Campion, as the president of the jury, led the eight judges to appear on the red carpet first.

You can tell what kind of director she is: "I'm proud that female directors can take up a fifth of Cannes, and to be honest, male directors don't be too arrogant here." ”

Quite speechless.

In the eyes of some 'feminists', the so-called feminism should be about trampling men under their feet...

Then why don't you say, in this way, what about the criteria for artistic judgment?

No wonder Alice Lowach won the Grand Jury Prize...

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Cannes has contacts with filmmakers from all over the world, for example, the Chinese film sector can lobby for its own films to participate in Cannes. The Festival de Cannes is not just a place for French cinema, but also for the best films from all over the world.

Thousands of films are considered every year. Scouts recommend films to the Cannes Committee, which looks at each film, judges its merits and decides whether it qualifies for a particular section of the Cannes section. If there is an objection to whether a film can be exhibited, the decision is left to Thierry Frémo, the artistic director of the Festival de Cannes, who will see the film for himself.

Of course, to decide whether a film can win an award, the biggest voice is still the jury.

Spike Lee's "Do What You Should Do" was originally contested at Cannes, and the jury loved it, but it didn't win an award. Because it was Wim Wenders who was the chairman of the jury that year, and he couldn't get used to Spike...

For the film industry, there are three major film markets each year: the Cannes Marché in May, the American Marché du Film in Santa Monica in November, and the Berlin Marché du Film in February. But the Berlin Film Market is usually a little deserted, because the American Film Market is only a few months away, and after the American Film Market, there are not many films left for the Berlin Film Market. However, the rise of the Toronto Film Festival in recent years has made it even more important to the film market than Berlin.

Huiwen came so many people this time, in addition to participating in the film festival, more of them wanted to sell films.

They won't buy films in Cannes either, and we don't have much interest in works from third world countries!

To be honest, our people's attention to Cannes is mainly focused on Chinese films and Chinese filmmakers, if there are no entries, I guess I don't care about the owner of this year's Palme d'Or.

Therefore, most of the domestic coverage of Yeju is only limited to the red carpet...

It's also good to promote Chinese culture...

"The red carpet of Cannes, which should have been sacred and noble, was turned into a Chinese vegetable market. We have to ask, how did this trend get bad? We also have to let the Cannes Organizing Committee know that if this continues, Cannes will be no different from the golden rooster and a hundred flowers in the hearts of the Chinese people. ”

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The time is Northeast China in the thirties of the last century.

Qiao Duo, 27 years old, Northeast Yin, a university gardener, he is enthusiastic, kind, and studious, and the reason why he came to the university to be a gardener is mainly because he can skip classes for free.

He was full of the best expectations for life, and his greatest wish was to open a bookstore in the city.

Ellie, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese prince, 18 years old, is an international student.

She falls in love with Jodo and often finds excuses to run to the gardener's resting place...

In the face of sudden love, Jodo resisted at first, after all, his identity is a second-class citizen, but Ellie is a noble Japanese, not to mention that Ellie still has a fiancé in Japan.

Of course, the power of love is great, and at the forty minutes of the movie, Jodo and Ellie walk together.

After getting married, good things followed, the bookstore of Jodo's dream opened, and they had a well-behaved and lovely son, Josie.

But war came as planned, and Japan tightened its grip on northeastern China.

Originally, Aili thought that with her identity, she could ensure a harmonious family and beauty.

She thought too much, and when Josie was five years old, Second Lieutenant Matsushita led a team to take away Jodo and Josie on the pretext of forcibly conscripting people, and imprisoned him in Laboratory 731.

When Ellie returns home from Japan, the building is empty and the house is turned into a mess, and Ellie understands what is happening in front of her. Although she is Japanese, she insists on going to Lab 731 with Jodo and her son, and Ellie is locked up in a women's prison.

Jodo was unwilling to let his son's young mind be overshadowed by misery. In the inhumane 731 laboratory, Jodo tries his best to find an opportunity to get in touch with his wife in the women's prison and report to Ellie that she is safe, while he wants to protect and take care of young Josie, and he coaxes his son that this is a game, and the winner will get a gold medal!

The naïve and inquisitive son believed Chodo's words, how much he wanted a gold medal.

Josie endured hunger, fear, loneliness, and all the harsh circumstances.

Jodo used the game to keep his son's childlike innocence unharmed.

While optimistically doing the dirty work, while making up the lies of the game. He also survived thanks to the help of Corporal Mitsui, who was guarding them.

When liberation came, the Japanese were ready to flee late at night, and of course, before escaping, they wanted to kill all the Chinese in the laboratory!

Jodo hid his son in an iron cabinet and told Josie not to come out, otherwise he would not get the gold medal. He planned to take advantage of the chaos to go to the women's prison to find his wife Ellie, but unfortunately he was discovered by the Japanese soldiers, and when Mitsui and another Japanese escorted Jodo past Josie's iron cabinet, he also walked optimistically and strided, suggesting that his son should not come out, but soon, a gunshot was heard, and Jodo, who had gone through the ordeal, died tragically at the gunpoint of the Japanese.

At dawn, Josie climbed out of the iron cabinet and stood in the courtyard, when the Maozi Army, which had liberated the northeast, drove into the laboratory, and a Soviet soldier came down from it, and finally, Josie's mother and son were reunited.

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As the opening film, "Beautiful Life" has received much attention as you can imagine.

Oscar-winning director Xu Hui's latest work, most of the reporters in line at the scene failed to squeeze into the scene...

A large screening hall with 2,000 people!

Xu Hui didn't deliberately invite, except for Jiang Wen, he wanted to know what the director who made "The Devil is Coming" had thoughts on this work.

In addition, Wu Baige, Hou Xiaoxian, Yu Dong and others also came to cheer.

In foreign countries, we Chinese are still very united.

The movie "Life is Beautiful" is not long, 115 minutes, as Xu Hui said, this is a 'comedy'...

In fact, many reporters, media, and filmmakers who watched the movie also thought this way, could it be that Xu Hui wanted to make a story similar to Romeo and Juliet about hostile countries, how a pair of people who love each other break the barrier and finally come together?

By the time the cruelty of Lab 731 flashed across the big screen, the audience began to struggle...

What a tragedy!

About the 731 laboratory, it is internationally recognized, including Japan, "Death Factory - Japanese Bacteriological Warfare Crimes Covered Up by the United States", "The Crime History of the Japanese Army Unit 731", "731** Laboratory", "The Devil's Feast - Documentary of the Crime of Unit 731 of the Japanese Invasion of China", a bunch of books truly record the heinous crimes committed by Unit 731 in China!

Of course, Xu Hui did not describe it positively, but only showed the picture of less than three seconds on the side.

Enough is enough!

Just the thought of Jodo and the lovely Josie in this kind of place makes people feel chills all over their bodies.

In order to keep Josie's simple childhood from being shrouded in the darkness of the laboratory, Jodo weaves a beautiful fairy tale and tells it with a smile.

The misery of the laboratory became a game, a game of life. Jodo's love for Josie is an ordinary but great father's love, in order to support that piece of sky, Jodo still gives Josie the brightest smile every day while being tortured.

It's a tough game, but Jodo keeps it trying with love.

There was already a sobbing sound on the scene...

Jodo doesn't know how much pressure he endured, the intensity of physical labor, the days and nights of worrying about Josie and Ellie, and the possibility of death at any moment, but in front of Josie, he always showed his best side.

He painted the gold medal for Josie and never gave up, even at the last moment of his life, he still left a happy impression on his son, an impression that should have been made in childhood.

When Josie finally shouts "We won" in her mother's arms, it may be that he is really just going through a difficult game rather than a tragic journey in life.

"It was a sacrifice my father made who made me believe that even if you are in hell, you should not complain about life, that life should be beautiful, shouldn't it?"

I believe that Josie's heart will always be full of joy and not with sad memories, even if the mature voice at the end of the movie has recognized that this is a father's sacrifice, but this should be a reason to live better.

The comedy is painted black, and the laughter turns into emotion. Life is beautiful, love someone, will shine.

At the end of the movie, the audience was silent, only the sound of soft sobbing...

After almost three minutes, the audience gave a standing ovation.

Pierre Lescur, the new president of the Cannes Film Festival, walked up to Xu Hui and praised: "This is a great film!"