By the way, I almost forgot, before the main competition unit was awarded, there was a Horizon unit award.

The so-called horizon unit is the second largest competition unit of the Venice Film Festival.

The three major film festivals in Europe all have a second competition unit, for example, a kind of attention in Cannes;

The Berlin Film Festival has a panorama section, which is divided into two parts: "Panorama Special Films" and "Panorama Documentary";

Launched in 2004, the Horizons section focuses on experimentation and innovation in cinema to capture the future trends and trends of international cinema.

The horizon unit belongs to the screening unit, and the participating films do not participate in the competition for the Golden Lion Award.

Jia Zhangke, Wang Shan, Li Yu, Liu Jie, Guan Yu, Xu Haohaofeng, etc. have all been shortlisted for the horizon unit with their respective works.

This year's Chinese-language films were absent from the Golden Lion Awards, which is the main competition unit, but one work was shortlisted for the Horizon unit.

Documentary director Wang Shan won the Best Screenplay Award in the Horizon Unit for "Bitter Money", which is the second time he has won the Grand Prize in the Horizon section of the Venice Film Festival!

Sam Mendes opened the envelope and glanced at the directors in the audience.

European, Asian, and American directors in the audience all looked eagerly at Sam Mendes, and in a sense, the Golden Lion, Golden Bear and Palme d'Or were the highest film awards they could get.

Most of these people don't have access to real commercial blockbusters!

Compared to these people, Shen Lin seemed calm and terrifying.

He really doesn't care about the Golden Lion this time, to put it bluntly, "La La Land" has already achieved a sensational effect through the screening of the Venice Film Festival.

The momentum and word-of-mouth of the movie have been hit.

Because of this, Shen Lin led the crew to leave Venice after attending the opening ceremony, and the Toronto Film Festival is even more important to "La La Land"!

Moreover, according to the consistent urine nature of European film festivals, he will definitely not award the grand prize to the big favorite, and the probability of him winning the award is infinitely close to zero...

In fact, all the previous media, including North American media and domestic media in Nie, although they praised "La La Land", but in view of the choice of the Venice Film Festival in recent years, they are not very optimistic that "La La Land" can win the Golden Lion Award.

In order to show their personality, the Venice Film Festival will selectively ignore films from Hollywood, and has already given you the Best Actress, what do you want?

Sure enough, Sam Mendes continued: "The Golden Lion winner is..."

He paused briefly: "The Woman Who Left!"

There is an eerie silence in the Palais des Movies, Walter?

"The Woman Who Left"?

What the heck?

Shen Lin was also shocked!

It took a long time to recover.

"The Woman Who Left?"

"That Filipino director Ralph Daz's film?"

There was silence for about a few dozen seconds before the applause rang out.

It's just that this applause sounds all kinds of reluctant.

"What's the matter, a four-hour movie can also win an award?"

Shen Lin couldn't help but complain secretly.

Hey, we're too fussful, 4 hours is a fart, Ralph Daz won the Best Film Award in the Horizon Unit of the 65th Venice Film Festival for his film "Melancholia" as early as 2008.

Almost all of people's movies are long-form, and "Depression" is more than 7 hours long.

Relatively speaking, "The Woman Who Left" is quite short.

Ralph Daz is known for its longevity, "The Woman Who Left" is 226 minutes long, and earlier this year, his "Lullaby of Sadness" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival, which was 485 minutes long, and the official screening took a full day!

Most people think it's incredible, 485 minutes, 8 hours of movies?

It's almost time to catch up with the 13-level American drama of the last season!

Therefore, the art of film, Shen Lin is really too tender!

……

"Well, it's quite unexpected..."

At the end of the awards ceremony, Shen Lin met a reporter in China and asked him what he thought about the Venice Film Festival, and the first thing must be his opinion on the Golden Lion Award winner "The Woman Who Left".

"Why?"

"I have always felt that the film should be made for the public, and it should be placed in the cinema for the audience to enjoy, and I really can't accept a four-hour work, after all, the limit of the human body is only two hours, which is scientifically verified. ”

Shen Lin replied honestly.

"But this work won the Golden Lion Award!"

"So I think it's very surprising, probably because my realm is too low, I can't appreciate real art!"

“… And what do you think of La La Land?"

"That's my work, what do you think of me?"

"Then what do you think about the fact that Chinese films were not shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival?"

“… The fact that there are fewer Chinese films suitable for film festivals is a good thing, not a bad thing! I am not against film festivals, I am not against sending films to film festivals, and I am against making certain types of films for the sake of film festivals. ”

Shen Lin thought for a moment and then replied: "Italian cinema has always advocated neorealism, and the so-called neorealist film is to emphasize ordinary people and daily life as the focus of the film's discussion, and the object of expression is those ordinary people living at the bottom of society, showing the survival process of ordinary people. There is no market for this thing, and it is completely contrary to the most mainstream movies..."

The two were chatting when Zhao Junqi walked over.

"Hey, Sister Wei, you're here too? How are you, how do the judges feel?"

Shen Lin took the initiative to speak.

"Don't mention it, I'm almost tired from watching movies!"

Zhao Wei sighed, and then looked at the reporter: "The film festival is over, and you still haven't returned to China?"

"Sister Wei, don't we want to interview a few celebrities. ”

"What were you talking about?"

“… I'm telling him that the routine of art films is too deep, and I can't play it a little, so I'd better go home and make commercial films honestly!"

Shen Lin said before the reporter spoke.

"Haha, really?

Zhao's smiling teeth were exposed.

The character of Comrade Junqi is still very good.

"That's probably what it means, I really didn't expect a movie like "Savage Zone" to win the Silver Lion Award, this is completely the 18-banned Ivy! No, I mean the other judges..."

Shen Lingang wanted to complain a few words about the bad eyes of the judges, but suddenly thought that Zhao Wei was also one of the judges, and hurriedly changed his words.

“… It's okay, I think it's incredible, I was disgusted when I watched that movie!"

Zhao smiled: "By the way, when are you going back to China?

"Forget it, I'm going to fly to Bangkok later, and the whole crew is waiting for me!"

Shen Lin thought about it, but still refused Zhao Junqi's invitation.

"Then I'll go first, goodbye!"

"Well, goodbye!"

Seeing Zhao Junqi leave, Shen Lin turned his head to look at the reporter: "What else to see, everyone is gone." ”