Chapter 367: Cannes

Yu Yabin can be willful, cancel the follow-up promotion of the album, and return to the family.

When the time came to May 2019, Zhao Zhenghao had to end this vacation and return to work.

This year's Cannes International Film Festival opens on May 7 and closes on May 18.

At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the color of the Dragon Kingdom is still strong, and the chairman of the jury is Hu Zhenlong, a famous director from the Dragon Kingdom.

This is the second time in the past five years that a director of the Dragon Kingdom has served as the chairman of the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival, and it is no wonder that the media of other countries have complained sourly that the Cannes International Film Festival should now be called the "Dragon Country Cannes International Film Festival".

With the rise of the Dragon Country's economy, surpassing the United States and becoming the world's largest economy, the Dragon Kingdom movie box office market has also risen, and even outperformed the total GDP, completing the surpassing of the North American box office two years earlier and becoming the world's largest box office.

The overall quality of Dragon Kingdom films has also made gratifying achievements over the years, while the box office is rising and popular films are emerging in an endless stream, a number of literary and artistic films with great humanistic colors have also emerged, which have won many awards at large and small film festivals at home and abroad.

Among them, the Cannes Film Festival is the most popular among filmmakers in the Dragon Kingdom due to its profound historical heritage and its attitude of taking the initiative to compromise with reality, and films with overseas publicity needs, whether commercial films or literary films, are willing to choose Cannes as the vanguard of their own publicity.

In the past ten years, a total of three Dragon Kingdom films have won the highest award at the Cannes International Film Festival - the "Palme d'Or", and at the same time, there are three directors who have won the "Best Director" award, two actors have won the "Best Actor" ("Cannes Best Actor"), and two actresses have been crowned "Cannes Actress".

In addition, a number of people have won the "Grand Jury Prize", "Best Artistic Achievement Award", "Grand Prix of Highest Technology", as well as "Director's Fortnight" and "Un Certain Attention" awards.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for someone to say that the Cannes International Film Festival is about to become the "Dragon Country Cannes International Film Festival" in the past few years.

At this year's Cannes International Film Festival, in addition to Hu Zhenlong as the chairman of the jury, there is also a top actress from the Dragon Kingdom who serves as the judge of the main competition unit, she is Zhao Tianyi, who is bright with Yi Ping for a while, and is called a double hero.

Zhao Tianyi Strictly speaking, He Yi Ping is not an actress of a generation, she is more than ten years older than Yi Ping, she debuted earlier, and has been active on the big screen of Dragon Country since the late eighties of the last century.

Zhao Tianyi's achievements in the Dragon Kingdom film circle, I will not repeat it here, Yi Ping can only be regarded as her chaser in this regard, just saying one thing, it can represent her status in the Dragon Kingdom film circle - she is the first international actress in the Dragon Kingdom!

So far, Zhao Tianyi has not only won the "Queen" trophy of the three major film festivals in Dragon Country, but also collected the "Queen" of the three major European film festivals one by one to complete the super slam, which is not only unprecedented in the history of Dragon Country, but also second to none in the world.

In recent years, Zhao Tianyi's splicing frequency is no longer so frequent, and she rarely appears in public, which seems to be a little depressed, but no one dares to say that she is "outdated".

At her level, the word "outdated" has nothing to do with her at all, even if she returns to seclusion for a few years and then comes back, the superstar's true nature will still not decay.

That is, because she has only been an actor in her life, and she has not crossed over to the director's profession like some actors now, if she makes another achievement in the position of director, she is very likely to become the first female president of the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival!

This is the fifth time that Zhao Tianyi has served as a judge of the main competition unit of the Cannes International Film Festival, and in this regard, a historical record has been created.

It is reported that at this year's Cannes International Film Festival, there are nearly 20 Dragon Kingdom films, signed up for participation, and in the end, two films were selected for the main competition unit, namely Zhao Zhenghao's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and newcomer director Xu Yihan's feature film debut "Fang Yuan".

Zhao Zhenghao doesn't need much introduction, although he appeared at the Cannes International Film Festival for the first time, his name has long been known to the world.

His achievements in music, needless to say, in terms of movies, his achievements in the past few years are also proud!

Zhao Zhenghao's first few directorial works, although they did not deliberately cater to the overseas market, did not even carry out any overseas publicity, but with his super high popularity and strong appeal, the results of the overseas box office are still quite gratifying.

In particular, the last work "Infernal Affairs 1" not only set a new box office record in history in Dragon Country, but also set box office records for Dragon Kingdom films in many overseas countries.

Moreover, this "Infernal Affairs" brought Zhao Zhenghao not only box office success, but also many awards.

won the "Best Film" and "Best Original Screenplay" of the three major film festivals of the Dragon Kingdom, and brought Zhao Zhenghao the "Best Director" and "Best Actor" trophies of the two major Dragon Country film festivals, making Zhao Zhenghao's status as a movie superstar and director more worthy of his name.

At the same time, on an international scale, "Infernal Affairs" has also won a lot.

Because when making this film, the issue of foreign awards was not considered, and the film was released in a hurry after the production was completed, and I did not have time to sign up for the three major European film festivals, but after the film was released, it was still shortlisted for many film festivals that did not have hard requirements for the release date of the participating films, and won several actor trophies for Zhao Zhenghao.

Although the popularity and influence of those film festivals are not as good as the three major European film festivals, they can also be called grand events in their respective regions, and the cumulative number of them is not without benefit to the improvement of Zhao Zhenghao's reputation.

Therefore, although this is Zhao Zhenghao's first time participating in the Cannes International Film Festival, he is not a stranger here, and has many fans.

Xu Yihan is a young female director of Longguo, who has been active in the online film industry before, and "Fang Yuan" is her first feature film.

This "Fang Yuan", according to Xu Yihan himself, has gone through nearly ten years from the beginning of writing the script to the final filming, and the hardships and hardships can be imagined.

However, now her feature film debut can be shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes International Film Festival after many screenings, making Xu Yihan the first female director in the Dragon Kingdom to be shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes International Film Festival, which is enough to comfort her persistence and hard work over the years!