Internationally, film festivals are generally divided into four categories of ABCD, which are categories, not levels. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A film festival is a competition type, and there is a special jury to evaluate the awards. In category B, the situation is basically the same, the only difference is that it has a unique theme, such as the Busan Film Festival, which is only for Asian films.

Category C is non-competitive, while category D is for short films and documentaries.

Originally, there was no distinction between high and low, but due to the influence of the three major film festivals on the process of film festivals around the world, as well as the promotion of various commercial elements, people unconsciously replaced Class A with Class A.

Currently, there are a total of 12 so-called A-level film festivals. The China Shanghai Film Festival is also one of them, but in terms of influence, it is not even as influential as the Cairo International Film Festival, which was once teased by Wang Shuo for the "Township Enterprise Award", after all, it was founded as early as the 70s.

In fact, the A-level international film festivals that are really influential in the world, in addition to the three major international film festivals in Europe, are the Montreal International Film Festival in Canada and the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.

The Nantes Tricontinentals International Film Festival is a B-category film festival, as the name suggests, it is a film festival that showcases excellent films from Asia, Africa and Latin America with the purpose of "introducing films from third world countries".

The Nantes Tricontinentals International Film Festival is not a B-category film festival, but it has a great influence in Europe, where the "white left" prevails and has always prided itself as "politically correct", and it is estimated that it is second only to the above five A-category film festivals.

On the day he left, his girlfriend happened to finish filming the indoor scene in the studio and moved to Shanghai with the crew, and she left before him. Fortunately, Liu Ling's drama was also filmed in Beijing, and as the main supporting role, it was particularly fragmented, either filmed every other day, or half a day off and half a day off to report to the set.

If the actor is usually the most annoying to such a role, there are not many scenes and it will take time. But Wang Dalun feels that the current Liu Ling is the most suitable for this way of working, not having something to do without being nervous, and just using this time to dilute the sadness of the past. At the same time, I can also help him take care of Rose.

Jacob had already flown directly from Hong Kong to the front station a day in advance, and Wang Dalun, Zhu Wen, and Concubine Zi set off from the capital, first to Paris, and then transferred to Nantes.

The climate in Nantes is warmer than in the capital, but when you get off the plane, it is drizzling here, and it feels a little cold. Jacob, who arrived early, drove a rented Renault to the airport to pick them up.

Nantes' Atlantic Airport is a short 20-minute drive from the city, and hotels in the city centre are just a short twenty-minute drive away. Along the way, Jacob introduced them to the city of Nantes.

He said that Nantes is very similar to his ancestral hometown of Shanghai, there is a river running through the city, Shanghai is the Huangpu River, Nantes is the Loire River, both are port cities, but the city is dozens of kilometers away from the real sea, and there is a drizzle in early winter.

Of course, the size of the city of Nantes cannot be compared with that of an international metropolis like Shanghai, which is the sixth largest city in France, but has a population of just over 200,000 and an urban area of only a few dozen square kilometers.

Wang Dalun's impression of the city of Nantes is that apart from the Three Continents Film Festival, it seems that only a domestic footballer has played briefly for the city's club. I remember that the domestic media had reported it a lot, and it also made him know about the city of Nantes for the first time.

Listening to Jacob's introduction like a tour guide, through the car window, the only impression of the city is that the greenery is very good, there are green spaces everywhere, there are trees everywhere, and the whole city seems to be located in a huge park. It wasn't until you got close to the city center that you saw a few high-rise buildings and a few relatively lively streets.

Hutong Production is no longer the small company that was budget-conscious back then, and with the rise of Jia Dadao, it has become wealthy. Jacob booked three deluxe king rooms with balconies at the Hôtel de France in the heart of the city, less than a five-minute walk from the Nantes Cinema, where the festival was held. Zhu Wen has one room for the two of them, one for him and one for Wang Dalun.

Jacob said that compared with Paris and Cannes, Nantes is a city with a very low price level, even during the Three Continents Film Festival, the house price here is only 700 francs, equivalent to 1,005 yuan, which is much cheaper than Hong Kong.

Departing from the capital airport at 10 o'clock in the morning, it took 10 hours to fly to Paris, and after waiting for two hours for the connecting flight, it was only 5 o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived in Nantes. I tossed enough along the way, and the heating in the house was very sufficient, no one wanted to move after taking a shower, and I didn't even bother to eat dinner, so I lay down on the soft bed and had jet lag.

The next day, early in the morning.

The rain that had been pouring down all night finally stopped, the sky was blue, and the rising sun was hiding behind the clouds, showing off its glow. Wang Dalun came out of the room in a sportswear, and the corridor was quiet, and many residents were still immersed in sleep at this time.

I went downstairs, said hello to the staff at the front desk in French, and trotted out of the hotel. The Hôtel de France is on the banks of the Loire, and he starts jogging along the river.

Despite his location in the heart of the city, the many trees and green spaces along the river make him feel like he is in a natural oxygen bar, and the slightly cool breeze blowing on his face from the river surface makes him feel refreshed, and his very rhythmic legs are unconsciously quickened.

Nantes is really a small city, and according to his daily morning run of five kilometers, he almost ran out of the city center from the city center. On the way back to the hotel, he deliberately turned into the street near the river.

It's too early, the whole street is empty, and the shops on both sides haven't opened yet. Occasionally, a car passes, or someone who gets up early and goes for a morning jog like him, passing by, and some will greet him warmly.

Today is the opening of the festival, and the opening film is an Iranian film. At breakfast, Jacob and Zhu Wen took the film schedule and muttered and studied for a long time, listed the schedule of each film in the competition unit, and finally compared, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Seafood" was scheduled to be released the next day, in a separate hall, with two performances in the morning and afternoon, and one more on the next two days. It shows that the organizers are still very optimistic about this film.

This time it was easier than Wang Dalun's previous participation in film festivals, because the film was underwritten by a French film company, and there was no need to sell the film. At the same time, their films can get such treatment in Nantes this time, and I have to say that there must be underwriting film companies at work. How to say that this is France after all, and it can be regarded as their home field, their own people.

Even with Jacob, it is much easier, no longer like "Xiao Wu" and "Platform", every day is in a hurry like a charge. After breakfast, he had time to sit on the balcony basking in the sun, drinking coffee and looking out over the Loire River.

Zhu Wen looked at the quietly flowing Loire River, and couldn't help but say with poetry: "This is a long canal deep to the other side of the Atlantic, and wherever it passes, people cheer for it!"

Wang Dalun nodded again and again after hearing this: "Yes, I think you are still suitable to be a poet." ”

Zhu Wen smiled bitterly: "Don't be funny, this is Verne's poem praising the Loire, and his hometown is Nantes." ”

"Who is Verne?"

As soon as Wang Dalun said this, Jacob and the concubine looked at him incredulously, and Zhu Wen was even more full of disdain. It's like a popular singer who listened to "Man Jianghong" and thought it was very good, and asked who wrote this song, and the answer was Yue Fei, the singer hurriedly clapped his hands and shouted: "Can I ask Yue Fei to help me write a song?"

It is estimated that the three of them feel this way now, but Wang Dalun is not ashamed, and spreads his hands and says, "I really don't know!"

"Ahh

Zhu Wen sighed deeply, feeling deeply ashamed of having such an uneducated friend in his heart, and wrenched his fingers and said, "Does Alexandre Dumas know?"

"You know, the one who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo. ”

"And what about Balzac?"

"Human comedy!"

I know this too well, I was in the textbooks when I was in college, and it was still the focus of the exam.

"Alexandre Dumas fused history into literature, Balzac fused social ethics into literature, and Verne fused geography into literature. The three of them are collectively known as the greatest French writers of the 19th century. Do you know now?"

Wang Dalun finally knew who this Jules Verne was, but he still underestimated Verne's significance to the city of Nantes.

At lunchtime, the waiter recommended a local Nantes specialty, which is said to be famous throughout France, and he was happy to taste it as he spoke half-baked French.

After communicating with the local waiter, in fact, he really wanted to talk to Zhu Wen about who he was uneducated! Compared with English, he had received systematic training from Zhang Lu, and he could not only speak, read, but also read and write.

Zhu Wen, although he also has a bachelor's degree, the dumb English he learned has long been returned to the teacher, if he is not a part-time translator by his side, it is estimated that he can only nest in the hotel and find it difficult to move an inch.

Just as he was secretly complacent, the so-called local specialty of Nantes, which is famous throughout France, was served, and everyone was stunned when the waiter mysteriously lifted the shiny stainless steel cover on the plate.

That's right, it's scrambled eggs, and it's no different from China's home-cooked scrambled eggs, looking at the amount inside, at most two eggs, and he actually asked him for 80 francs, which is equivalent to about 120 yuan.

Well, he immediately negotiated with the waiter in righteous words, and told him that he had to give himself an explanation.

The waiter obviously did not encounter this kind of thing for the first time, and explained the origin of this special dish very calmly, the reason why Nantes's scrambled eggs are famous all over France and have become a local specialty, because Jules Verne, who was born in Nantes, offered a Nantes scrambled eggs to the famous writer Mr. Alexandre Dumas through Mao Sui's self-recommendation. Then the two were like-minded and co-created the play "Broken Wheat Straw"!

As a result, Nantes scrambled eggs have become Nantes' most famous specialty. It is said that many Verne fans from all over the world come to Nantes to taste this Nantes scrambled egg.

The waiter also solemnly stated that this Nantes scrambled eggs is not just an ordinary dish, but also represents a love for Verne. Feelings are priceless, and of course this scrambled egg is worth eighty francs.

The waiter's nonsense, Zhu Wen and the concubine nodded frequently when they heard it, and Zhu Wen also ordered a scrambled egg.

Damn, they're all sick!

After tasting the expensive and sentimental scrambled eggs, the three of them wandered the streets of Nantes. Except for a few modern high-rise buildings in the city center, the rest of the city has a lot of old buildings and a lot of history. And the people here, as Jacob introduced yesterday, have a very slow pace of life, and even the aimless French ladies on the streets only dress themselves with that elegant perfume.

"It's like Lijiang in Yunnan. Zhu Wen couldn't help but sigh.

Not only is the pace slow, life is simple, like Lijiang, Zhu Wen said that even those French ladies who hang out are very much like the Naxi ladies in the old city of Lijiang, who spend a lifetime baking the sun for a day.

Of course, Mrs. Naxi still has to sell tourist goods to support herself, and even if the French lady here lives in the sun every day, the government will pay 2,000 francs (equivalent to 3,000 yuan) a monthly "salary" in place, so they don't have to worry about making a living!

It's not like Berlin, Cannes or Venice, where there are always crowds at film festivals. The commercial atmosphere of the film here is far less intense than that of the three festivals, only the films of the third world are accepted, and the purpose of the festival is to promote friendship and cooperation among filmmakers from the three continents, and artistry and experimentation are the eternal themes of the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival.

The combination of "artistry" and "experimentation" is often "independence", which of course reflects not entirely the elegance of art, which is direct, blunt, rough, and extremely personal. For example, the Iranian movie that was the opening film, although it had English letters, after Wang Dalun watched it, the first feeling was that he didn't understand it, and the second feeling was not good!

Well, he admits that although he acts in literary films, he is still a vulgar coffee in his bones.

Early the next morning, he went for a morning jog, took a bath, and specially changed into a black dress prepared for him by his girlfriend and a thin black tie. Today is the premiere of "Seafood" at this film festival, although after the baptism of the Cannes Film Festival, Zhu Wen still looks a little nervous, and he also changed into a new suit, and the vertical striped tie tightens his thick neck. Standing with Wang Dalun, his dress seems to be full of local flavor.

After breakfast, the four of them walked to the theater. A poster is posted at the door, with dark clouds in the background, a rough sea, and a large ram with a fish in its mouth in the center. A sea, a fish and sheep fresh, particularly intuitive, particularly specific, but a bit surreal.

Many fans saw the majestic ram on the poster, and couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!", you must know that in the West, the ram is the embodiment of Satan, representing the devil, such a poster adds a touch of mystery to the film.

"How's that? I designed this poster, right?"

The reaction of Western fans to the ram on the poster, Zhu Wen has obviously seen it in Cannes, and he said to Wang Dalun proudly.

Wang Dalun nodded. Originally, seafood was fresh and vigorous. But the seafood has another meaning in it, like all his literary works, it is wet, a little slippery, and it looks fresh, but it is still a little raw in the mouth.