Founded in 1939, the Cannes International Film Festival, also known as the Cannes International Film Festival, is one of the most influential and top international film festivals in the world today. www.biquge.info The Cannes Film Festival is currently held in mid-May every year for about 12 days, usually opening on Wednesday and closing on the following Sunday. In addition to the film competition, the market exhibition was also held at the same time. The festival is divided into six sections: 'Official Competition', 'Directors' Fortnight', 'Un Certain Eye', 'Critics' Week', 'The New Look of French Cinema' and 'Side Market Exhibition'.

In the eighties, Hollywood's Oscars have not swept the world, and their influence in Europe is not even as good as the three major film festivals, only after the nineties, the Oscars swept the world, even if Europeans are unwilling to admit it, the Oscars are also the world's number one award, which is an irrefutable fact.

Every year, when the international film festival is held, in addition to the invited participants, many uninvited filmmakers will also come, and they will bring their own works to show them at the side market exhibition, hoping to get good reviews, so that whether they are released back to China or sold to distributors, they will have a good price.

And because of this, every year at the film festival, major film companies will also send people to the film festival to watch films, look for favorite films, buy them at a low price, and return to China to distribute them to make a profit. Of course, there will definitely be losses if there is a gain, it depends on the eyesight, if the eyesight is not good, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

After two days in Paris, Lei Juewen went to Cannes and went to the side market of the festival.

Lei Juewen didn't come here to buy films and go back for distribution, he just had never been to such a large-scale film festival before, and he finally came here this time and wanted to visit.

The films presented at the festival are free, and because of the wide variety of films, not only the local citizens of Cannes, but also many film enthusiasts from all over the world come to Cannes to watch the films, so it is very lively.

If it is a popular film, there will be a lot of fans watching it, and it can almost be said that the venue is full, and this kind of film will have a good result whether it is sold to distributors or brought back to China for release. And unpopular films, sometimes a movie is screened, there are only one or two people, and it is very deserted, and this kind of film usually has no future.

Art films are also popular in Cannes and have a large audience, so it's no surprise that a deserted film means that there is neither a commercial market nor an award.

Although "Crazy Stone" has been selected for the official competition, it still asked for a place to display it at the side market exhibition, Lei Juewen went to see it, and not many people watched the film, and most of them were Asian.

The reason why "Crazy Stone" was selected is because of the filming technique, the original version of this movie was borrowed from the British film "Two Smoking Guns", but in the eighties, "Two Smoking Guns" has not yet been born, so the film "Crazy Stone" has become an original, and the shooting technique is naturally the same.

In terms of storyline, "Crazy Stone" was changed by Lei Juewen according to the customs and slang of Hong Kong Island, so Hong Kong Islanders will laugh when they watch it, and most Chinese people will laugh when they watch it, but it is different in the eyes of foreigners, even if the language is translated into English and French, because of the different relationships that will make people laugh, it is difficult for this film to resonate with foreigners, so the film does not look popular.

Lei Juewen himself did not have expectations for "Crazy Stone" at the film festival, so he didn't feel anything, but he watched the movie at the film festival. The foreign films of the 80s, if they were not extremely famous, Lei Juewen would not have remembered them at all in his previous life, but this time he came to the film festival, but he could take a good look.

Time passed, and in a blink of an eye, it was time for the official competition to be awarded.

When walking the red carpet, Lei Juewen was surprised to find that the female companion arranged for him by the organizer was Sophie Marceau. But after the accident, he immediately thought that the current Sophie Marceau is not the Sophie Marceau in the future, she is now just a newcomer who has starred in a film, and the organizer does not look down on him, but underestimates him, and arranges a newcomer to walk the red carpet with him.

Lei Juewen did not give any opinion to the organizer because this newcomer is Sophie Marceau, the future French rose, she is still fifteen years old, with a height of 1.7 meters, plus the precociousness of Westerners, she looks like she is about 20 years old. However, she is still in her youth, and she has no mature charm in the future, but she has a different charm of youth and loveliness.

"Are you an Oriental?"

Sophie Marceau looked at Lei Juewen with a little curiosity, there is no Chinese in France who has ever appeared in movies and television, not even newspapers, and there is no Chinese in her life circle, Lei Juewen is the first Chinese she has seen, she is naturally a little curious, after all, she is still the age of a little girl.

"I'm from Hong Kong Island, my name is Lui Kowen, and it's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Sophie Marceau."

Lei Juewen smiled and held out his hand to Sophie Marceau.

"It's also a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Lei Juewen."

Sophie Marceau stretched out her hand to shake Lei Juewen, looked at him and said, "You are the first Oriental I have ever met. ”

"That's my pleasure."

Lei Juewen smiled and said, "Sophie, can I call you that?" You can just call me Ray. ”

"Of course!"

Sophie Marceau nodded, not thinking at all that it would seem too intimate for the two to call Lei Juewen when they first met, Western girls are not as shy as Eastern girls.

Lei Juewen asked, "Which crew are you following this time?" ”

"The company arranged for me to come here, saying that it would increase my popularity."

Sophie Marceau tilted her head and said, she didn't bother to increase her popularity in this way, if it weren't for her curiosity about the Cannes Film Festival and her desire to come and see, she wouldn't have come.

"If you don't mind, you can sit with my crew then, my crew only has two people."

Lei Juewen sent an invitation to Sophie Marceau, who is still a girl, and he still wants to use some means to win it, and he will not miss this kind of good opportunity.

"That's my pleasure."

Sophie Marceau didn't refuse, anyway, she was originally going to find a random place to sit, but now that Lei Juewen invited her to join her, she naturally had no reason to refuse.

While speaking, the waiter came to remind the two that it was their turn to walk the red carpet, and Lei Juewen and Sophie Marceau stopped chatting.