"Issuing company?"

Ge Wen smiled dumbly and said, "I'm sorry, Chu, I just said that the platform in Rotterdam has nothing to do with the film market, and my resources are naturally the same." I do know a few people in charge of distribution companies, but most of them are small companies in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, etc., and I don't think they will have the effect you expected. But ......"

After his nagging blow, he habitually began to turn again, and said, "I can introduce you to a friend." As he spoke, he took out a business card holder from his bag, took out a business card, and said with a smile: "You contact him to try, maybe you can achieve what you want." ”

"Thank you."

Chu Qing took it with both hands, and he couldn't understand it, so he handed it to Cheng Ying directly. The girl glanced at him quickly, seemed to feel quite reliable, and winked at him strangely.

At this point, it was actually over, and he didn't chase after the inquiry, or continue to ask for assists with a dead face. People don't owe you, and it's interesting enough to be willing to point out so much.

"Mr. Gwen, no matter what, I sincerely thank you for your help." He stood up and bowed slightly.

"Oh, Chu, you're so polite."

Ge Wen also hurriedly got up, patted him on the shoulder, and said seriously: "I'm just watching it for the sake of the movie." ”

"Uh......" He was surprised, then looked at the other party's expression, and then realized that it was a joke, and couldn't help pursing his lips and saying goodbye to him: "Then I won't bother you, bye!" ”

"Bye-bye!" The foreigner waved his hand.

Chu Qing carried the copy, took Cheng Ying to the door of the screening room, and was about to push the door, when he suddenly shouted from behind: "Hey, Chu! ”

He turned around, not knowing why.

"Whatever happens to you in the future, never lose your love for it." Ge Wen straightened his thin body and repeated what he had just said: "For the sake of the movie!" ”

……

Around noon, the two left HBF's office.

The environment is particularly good, next to the strangely shaped cinema complex. Trees and grass are planted around, which is a bit of oriental tranquility. However, because of the winter, the trees are dry, and the white-brown forest is full of greenery, which does not appear to be decayed, but is more vigorous.

"I didn't expect you to have a good face here."

Cheng Ying was carrying a big bag, a black hat and a white scarf, dressed very foreignly. She only knew that Chu Qing was an actor before, but she didn't know what Cheng dù was at all. At the train station, I didn't feel anything special. But as soon as you step into this small area, it is suddenly different.

It's just two worlds, one cold and the other hot. It seems that many guys have seen it, full of intense feelings, even the staff of the theater and the girl at the front desk of HBF also took the initiative to greet the two of them, to be exact, to say hello to the goods next to them.

"What kind of face do I have? It's a movie that was released, and everyone cheered. Chu Qing smiled and asked again: "Hey, you just glanced at me." What's going on, what's going on? ”

"Oh yes, I know the person introduced by Gwen." She held the business card and said, "I've seen his column in France." It's called Pierre Risian. ”

"What is this guy doing?" He has always been blind to foreigners' names.

"The biggest names in the French film industry, consultants at the Cannes Film Festival, don't look at the position. It's a high status. ”

"What's the high law?"

"Well, Elder Nine Bags knows, it's that Fan."

"Oh." Chu Qing nodded, indicating that he understood, and he was a French veteran.

"So what do we do next, to France?" Cheng Ying asked.

"Of course I went, there are a lot of things over there, eldest sister, you don't even look at the visa?" He was speechless, obviously put aside the visas of the two countries in China, and asked.

"Did I forget?" The girl's face was full of reason, and she said, "I'll call Reisan and set up the words first." ”

"Okay, let's go inside and eat." Chu Qing looked around and pointed to a small roadside shop.

The food in Rotterdam was still so bad, the two had similar taste buds, unanimously ruled out disgusting cheese and asked for plenty of pancakes and broth.

Chu Qing pretended to have something in his heart, he ate very slowly, and when he saw Cheng Ying change his native French, he couldn't help himself, and he couldn't help anything, and he didn't know how to talk, so he became more and more depressed.

After chatting for about seven or eight minutes, the girl hung up the phone and said excitedly: "It's done!" ”

"What did you say?" He hurriedly asked.

"I'll just tell you who we are, Mr. Gwen introduced. He asked, is it the Chu who filmed "Suzhou Creek" and "Platform"? I said yes. ”

She bit off the half-pulled pancake and said with difficulty: "Then he agreed to meet, and said that he would go to Nantes in a few days, can he meet somewhere......"

"Where?" Chu Qing paused the spoon suddenly.

"Nantes."

"Yo, that's a coincidence!" He's happy.

"yes, I said we're going to Nantes too, so we'll see you later, and then we'll hang up." Cheng Ying's love was very high, and a sense of pride gushed out inexplicably, and she smiled: "Okay, Brother Qing, you know every mention of it!" ”

In fact, he was quite surprised, touched his cheek, and said, "Maybe foreigners haven't seen me like this." ”

…………

There was still a little spare in the schedule, Chu Qing simply stayed for another day, and accompanied Cheng Ying to go shopping, the little girl was very hard.

I went to two places, in the morning it was the central shopping area, there were no shopping mall buildings, all street shops. The front room is used as a storefront, selling some knick-knacks designed by the owner, furniture, jewelry, pen holders, cups, etc. The shopkeeper's studio is in the back, and as I walked around, I could see a certain young artist cat painting in a small room from time to time.

Cheng Ying didn't buy anything, she was purely enjoyable. Although she came back, she was familiar with it, and in the afternoon, she took Chu Qing around and around, and actually found a Chinatown.

He was very embarrassed, he didn't even know that Rotterdam and Chinatown, well, although it didn't look very reliable.

A typical European-style building, with Chinese character signs, not only Chinese, but also Asians and Africans. I picked a random house to go in, but it turned out that all the food sold was Japanese labels, and there was a black guy poking behind the counter.

What's even more bizarre is that the black buddy saw the two Asian faces, his expression was particularly ambiguous, and he spoke an authentic Cantonese * Dong: "Do you want to baa?" ”

Chu Qing and Cheng Ying looked at each other, and in the continuous petrification, they listened to the proprietress hiding in the corner and calling the domestic supply partner, but it was another Wen*zhou accent.

In the end, they had no choice but to flee. It's weird.

After an unsuccessful trip to the Netherlands, the two arrived in Nantes on the 20th, two days before the opening of the Tricontinentals International Film Festival.

Nantes is the largest city in western France, with a population of more than 200,000 people.

Chu Qing first contacted the organizing committee, and the other party expressed his terrifying enthusiasm as the leading actor of this year's film festival's hit film. The organizing committee is not stingy and provides fairly generous accommodation conditions.

After all, "Platform" has already attracted enough attention in Venice, and being able to come to Nantes is indeed to save face. From September to December, Ichikawa arranged four film festivals, Switzerland, Canada and Singapore, and he followed all the itineraries, winning awards at each stop and full of praise at each stop. I really can't pull away this time. I found Chu Qing to support the field.

If you talk about the origin, "Xiao Wu" won the highest award here in 98, but how could he be busy filming Zhu Er, Lao Jia didn't inform him.

Chu Qing took a break. Feel free to walk outside, and the more direct feeling is that there are few people and it is not lively.

He felt sorry for the confusion that Caster had fooled around. Even if people's grades are not strong enough. At most, it's a small film festival in the countryside, but look at your own virtues, a leading actor. Bringing out a translator is too disrespectful to the other party.

It seems that Zhou Gongzi went to Paris at the beginning of the year, and it was the same situation, but it was not clear what she thought at that time.

After that night, the next afternoon, in the café around the corner of his home, he finally met the legendary Elder of the Nine Bags, Pierre Resien.

Bald, wearing glasses, slightly chubby, and slightly obscene temperament, how do you look at how you don't look like a big-name character. However, his temperament is refreshing, and as soon as he showed up, he gave Chu Qing a big hug and said, "Chu, I have long wanted to meet you!" ”

"Hello, Mr. Reesian." He stiffened, and was a little caught off guard.

"Young people don't be so inhibited." Reece Anhaha laughed, took out a handkerchief and wiped his nose, and said, "Sorry, I've had a cold recently." ”

"Uh, it's okay, it's okay."

He was not tall, he looked uncomfortable sitting on a small chair in the café, twisted his buttocks, and asked, "Are you here for "Platform"?" ”

"Well, yes, the director has something, and I'm very sorry that I can't come."

"Heh, I don't need to say that."

He disagreed, saying, "'Platform' is a moving movie, and you also contributed an excellent performance. In fact, since "Xiao Wu", I have been paying attention to you and Jia Zhangke, and before you, there has never been a work of this style in China. And now, I am very happy that you and the director have made great progress compared to two years ago. ”

"Thank you for the compliment."

Chu Qing was very embarrassed to be praised, paused, and felt that it was still important to get down to business, so he said, "Mr. Lisian, in fact, I want to invite you to ...... this time."

"Oh Chu, you have to understand, it's the time of the film festival, and the person in charge of this is my old friend, and I have a lot of things to help with."

Before he could finish speaking, he waved his hand to interrupt and said, "Many people ask me to watch their films, because most of the ones recommended by me and dare not say all of them have been shortlisted for the main competition unit in Cannes." I know your purpose, but I'll talk about it later. ”

The foreigner was quite angry, Chu Qing learned about his experience with Cheng Ying in advance, and knew that it was not bragging.

This product debuted very early, and in the dream movie era that Bazin imagined, he followed Godard to shoot "Exhausted". Later, he worked as an art consultant, producer and director, and tapped many film talents such as Campion, Eastwood, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Yang Dechang, etc.

Reesian is committed to promoting films from the Third World, especially in Asia, and has even recommended works from Cambodia and Vietnam.

Ya has been traveling to various film festivals in France for many years, bringing newcomers, discovering the pearls, and helping those crazy Don Quixote by the way. Among them, he naturally made the most contribution to Cannes, working behind the scenes for decades, and is known as the only bunker figure in the history of the film festival who can walk freely in the Palais du Cinémathèque without any documents and wearing a T-shirt.

Although his name is completely unfamiliar to the public, you will only know the weight of this name when you really enter the inner circle of world cinema and are active in various mainstream film festivals.

Pierre Risian is known in the industry as a citizen of world cinema. (To be continued......)