Before deciding to participate in this film festival, Xu Hui already knew very well that his biggest opponent was "The Life of Adele"!

The official Cannes house catalogue has a score of 3.6!

Slightly inferior to "Cinema Paradiso" with a score of 3.8.

But the film has attracted a lot of attention!

Take a look at what "The Screen" has to say about "Adele's Life": a 3-hour naked, sincere adolescent budding story, and the scale of the description of lesbian sex life is almost textbook...

It's a good fit!

Before the Cannes Film Festival, France had just announced the legalization of same-sex marriage, but on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival, there were large-scale demonstrations on the streets of Paris to boycott and attack same-sex marriage;

Artists are usually more leftist, which is why Hollywood is the stronghold of the Democratic Party!

Cannes is no exception, and the so-called left means radical.

"The Life of Adele" was so appropriate, the media generally applauded, the audience response was also very good, after the official premiere, everyone in the largest theater in Cannes gave a standing ovation for more than ten minutes...

In addition, director Abdei Kosych is French himself and lives in Antibes, near Cannes.

Any award will be geographically biased, and the Cannes Film Festival has awarded the best actor and actress to a French actor countless times...

It was also predictable that the Palme d'Or would be awarded to a French film this time...

Xu Hui will not be so stupid that everything is good, and simply leave the decision to a few judges!

Children believe in what is fair, and the adult world only divides the pros and cons!

The eight judges must get at least five votes to win the Palme d'Or.

The target of this key PR is Spielberg...

Fortunately, Disney is ready to sign a film contract with Spielberg, and in this regard, "Cinema Paradiso" naturally has an advantage!

The producers of "Cinema Paradiso" are Touchstone and Huiwen World, and Touchstone belongs to the Disney Group...

There is also a need for public relations is director Ang Lee...

Ang Lee has a unique taste, he can award the best picture at the 50th Golden Horse Awards to a Singaporean film "Mom and Dad Are Not Home", it is hard to guarantee that he does not like "Cinema Paradiso"...

The compulsion of these two people is here, as long as it is settled, the probability of "Cinema Paradiso" winning the Palme d'Or is much greater!

In addition, Ye Ning also deliberately found a lot of media to frantically hype the trickiness of "Adele's Life", emphasizing that if this movie shows the love between men and women, no one will pay attention to it at all...

It's a bit outrageous, but it's also true.

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May 23rd.

On the eighth day of the opening of Cannes, most of the noteworthy films have almost been released, and the rest are some works with a strong commercial nature, such as "God Can Forgive", "Straw Shield"...

At the Carlton Hotel, Xu Hui was being interviewed on a sofa in the lobby with a smile on his face.

Interview with "World Cinema Tour: Info Express".

This column is broadcast on the movie channel at 17:50, the ratings are good, and it is also a bit of a place in the minds of the general audience.

In fact, in those years, the ratings of the movie channel have been very good, and the annual advertising cost has reached 1.5 billion!

Of course, nowadays, there are a lot fewer people watching TV, let alone watching movies on TV...

The Cannes Film Festival is definitely something that many people who care about movies are very concerned about, and it is very logical that "Information Express" is divided into five episodes to tell about this year's Cannes Film Festival!

Since I am in Cannes, I always have to interview the Chinese filmmakers who participated in the competition.

"Heaven is Destined" is destined to be harmonious, and it is unlikely that the movie channel will interview Lao Jia, and the remaining choices are Zhang Niangniang and Xu Hui.

Zhang Niangniang is also a judge of this year's film festival, but she is a judge of the 'Un Certain Regard' unit...

interviewed Zhang Niangniang yesterday, she admires "Paradise Cinema" very much, and many viewers left messages to know Xu Hui's views on her movie.

"It's time to go!"

Glancing at the outline of the question, Xu Hui smiled and looked at the supportive Wen Pei.

The film crew had already set up the equipment, the camera was aimed at Xu Hui, and the place where he was sitting was just leaning against the floor-to-ceiling window, with the night sky of Cannes in the background, which was very beautiful...

"Welcome to World Cinema Journey: Info Express..."

Wen Pei said two fixed opening sentences, and then asked: "Director Xu Hui, this should be your second time in Cannes, right?"

"Well, yes, the second time!"

"Is there any difference in the mood?"

"Compared to the last time, this time it was more intense. ”

Wen Pei became interested: "How do you say it?"

"I'll tell you the truth, if we make movies, we either win awards or box office, I was shortlisted for the main competition unit with "Once Upon a Time" in a daze, and I was completely unprepared and didn't have any idea of winning an award, because it was a commercial film, this time it was different, "Paradise Cinema" is a transformation work that I have been preparing for a long time!"

Xu Hui is very honest.

There's no shame in that.

Don't you want to win an award when you come to Cannes with your work?

“… So you'd love to win the prize?"

"Of course, I had this mentality before I came, but after I arrived, I realized that my thinking was too naïve!"

Xu Hui was wearing a white shirt and a cup of freshly brewed green tea in front of him, and the whole person became a little serious: "In the past few days, I have watched a lot of movies and experienced the collision between different cultures and different views. ”

“… Filmmakers should still go around more, always stay in China, it's easy to think that they are the whole world!"

"So what's the mentality like now?"

"I'm very happy, my creative ideas have come to an end in the past few years, and this trip to Cannes has been very fruitful, and I can't wait to start shooting the next work!"

“… At this Cannes Film Festival, a total of five Asian films were shortlisted for the main competition unit, but we only have one Chinese-language film, what do you think of this ratio?"

Wen Pei took out the topic of asking Zhang Niangniang yesterday and asked Xu Hui.

"In fact, from a global perspective, Chinese films themselves are a relatively small proportion, coupled with the continuous expansion of the mainland market in recent years, most filmmakers do not care much about foreign countries, I believe that when our market matures, there will still be a bunch of high-quality literary films!"

""Cinema Paradiso", I heard that the current score of "Screen" is 3.8, do you think you have a chance to win the award?"

"It's not good to say this kind of thing, I'm not a judge... And the score of the house magazine is often different from the taste of the judges, otherwise there would be no such thing as a big hit and death!"

"So which work do you think is most likely to win the award?"

"Well, Adele's Life. ”

Xu Hui thought about it, but still took out "Adele".

“… Oh, why?"

"LGBT is now mainstream, and the movie "Adele's Life" fits this trend just right, plus the movie is not bad, if I were a judge, I might also choose "Adele's Life"!"

The two of them had a tacit understanding that they didn't mention Jia Zhangke or "Heaven is Destined", and they also knew that even if they mentioned it, they wouldn't be able to broadcast it...