The movie "Old Boy" was shot more smoothly than Xu Hengzhou imagined.

So much so that he was able to arrange time to go to another country to attend a film festival.

Cao Baoping, the director of the film "Scorching Sun", was quite confident and sent the film to major film festivals.

As a result, there were shortlisted people, but not many won awards.

Mainly because this is still a suspenseful criminal investigation movie in the end.

Although the main core explores the question of human nature.

However, compared with those films that directly put human nature naked on the chopping board for cutting and dissection, they still do not explore some typical social issues in such depth.

In other words, although this movie is considered a literary film, it is not artistic enough.

It's not enough to be in the clouds, but the story is still too strong.

Cao Baoping complained to Xu Hengzhou anyway, after such a period of time, major foreign film festivals were not optimistic about this movie, and he has begun to waver to a certain extent whether this movie can win awards.

Not so confident anymore.

Xu Hengzhou thought about the domestic film critics' comments on this movie, and comforted Cao Baoping, their movie may be a typical example of foreign flowers that do not bloom and are fragrant at home.

After all, although their movie does not directly explore human nature, the plot is full of the meaning of the golden mean, but uses an implicit method to explore human nature, which is actually more in line with the domestic appreciation of art and beauty.

Cao Baoping was skeptical, and most of the time he still felt that Xu Hengzhou was comforting him.

And no matter what era it is, foreign film festival awards are still more valuable.

At least after winning an award abroad, the film's distribution abroad will be smoother and easier to sell for a high price.

Therefore, director Cao Baoping is still very active, keen to put this film into major foreign film festivals, regardless of whether it is large or small, to give it a try.

Their film is also a matter of style, the quality is nothing to say, it can always be the way to the last film festival!

Cao Baoping's thinking is indeed no problem, and with his perseverance, the film "Scorching Sun" was finally shortlisted for the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France.

And the call for winning the award is very high!

This award still carries a certain weight.

Films like "Blind Well" and "Heavenly Bath" have won this award.

After learning the information about the finalist of this movie, Xu Hengzhou was summoned by Director Cao Baoping with a phone call.

Deauville, a seaside resort on France's Atlantic coast.

Since it is a coastal city, it is natural that there are some diving projects.

Although Liu Yiqian did not participate in the filming of the movie "Scorching Sun", after all, she also invested money, of course, she can also attend this film festival, and of course, more importantly, she wants to come and play in the water in this hot summer!

Summer, swimsuit, cool and relieving heat, beautiful and sexy.

In just a few days, it was changed one by one, it was originally Liu Yiqian who admired Xu Hengzhou's good figure, but now it is Xu Hengzhou's turn to feast his eyes!

In short, the figure is very good, ah, not in short, the diving project is very fun.

Under the guidance of the coach, Liu Yiqian found that it was not as difficult as she imagined, so she thought about whether to take this opportunity to stay here for a few days and take a diving certificate.

Xu Hengzhou raised his hands in agreement, he had always felt that it was not a bad thing to learn more skills, and he planned to learn with Liu Yiqian.

Just like when he was admitted to the National Theater before, Liu Yiqian also accompanied him to study.

Now Liu Yiqian wants to learn something, and Xu Hengzhou also wants to accompany her.

It feels good that two people have a common learning goal.

So Xu Hengzhou and Liu Yiqian's activities in the past few days are mainly focused on learning to dive and participating in the film viewing activities in the early stage of the film festival.

That's right, they arrived very early at the festival, not at the awards ceremony, but a few days before the awards ceremony.

I really want to have a good time here.

Film festivals are generally held for a period of time.

In other words, there will be a long time before the official awards ceremony, when a wide variety of films will be shown that will come to the exhibition.

Xu Hengzhou's life in the past few days is basically to learn to dive early in the morning, look for local delicacies at noon, and take a nap after a big meal.

After getting up in the afternoon and exercising a little, he picked out a movie that he was interested in, and took Liu Yiqian and the two of them to the cinema to watch it.

This little day is very leisurely, so happy.

One of the domestic movies "Dialysis", Xu Hengzhou was very shocked after watching it, and then pulled Liu Yiqian to watch it a second time.

After watching it for the second time, Xu Hengzhou wanted to watch it for the third time.

As a result, Liu Yiqian was reluctant to accompany her, so she let Xu Hengzhou go by herself.

Xu Hengzhou went by himself.

After watching this movie, he was really shocked.

The film tells the special moment when the new criminal law replaced the old one ten years ago, the special story in the process of improving the legal system.

According to the final credits of the film, the film is based on real events.

Generally, this kind of movie based on real events is more difficult to make, because you have to make that kind of documentary.

And sometimes some real events that can be made into movies are often very dramatic.

How to shoot that kind of drama realistically is really a very difficult thing.

After Xu Hengzhou watched this movie, he not only felt the truth, but also the dramatic impact, and felt that fate made people.

For this movie to be able to produce such an effect, the director must have put a lot of thought into shooting this movie.

And more importantly, Xu Hengzhou found that the core of this movie has a slight resemblance to their "Scorching Sun".

The plot of "Scorching Sun" is about the peaceful life of a group of criminals, who escaped the condemnation of punishment, but could not escape the torment of inner morality, and were finally arrested and punished.

This film explores what seems to be a criminal, but also has human nature, has some needs, and has a lot of unknown psychological movements.

And what the movie "Dialysis" wants to express is more explicit.

The film tells the story of a judge seeking truth and justice who saves the life of a death row inmate in the specific context of the revision and promulgation of China's Criminal Law.

This dashes the hopes of a patient waiting for a kidney transplant on death row.

The film explores whether criminals have the right to live.

And even more subtlely, the right to live a criminal is compared to the right to live of an innocent person.

Which is more important between the two?

After Xu Hengzhou watched this movie three times, he felt more and more that this movie would be the biggest rival of whether "Scorching Sun" could win the award.

But at the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief, because he found that the film's discussion of human rights was conclusive.

It may be influenced by the adaptation of real events.

The direction of the film, as well as the ending, is clearly biased towards proving that the human rights of criminals are protected and that the actions of lawyers are just.

Justice is also impartial.

This is the point that the film wants to make clear, and at the same time it is precisely one of the weaknesses of the film.

If you start from the point of view of artistry, then human rights are inherently indiscriminable, and this movie should be more cold-blooded and more objective, when it is too subjective, the position will be biased.

Xu Hengzhou feels that in comparison, the narrative of the movie "Scorching Sun" is much calmer.

Although the whole movie is shot with a hint of warmth, in fact, the narration of events is very calm.

There is no personal emotion, and there is no emotional judgment on the whole thing, just exposing the matter in front of the eyes of all the audience, and letting the audience judge for themselves.

After careful comparison in Xu Hengzhou's mind, he had more confidence in the movie "Scorching Sun".

But he has this confidence, but director Cao Baoping does not.

Because during this period of time, major film festivals have not judged the movie "Scorching Sun" very well.

I always feel that the narrative is a bit ambiguous, not clear enough, and the point of view is a little implicit.

Therefore, as soon as Director Cao Baoping saw that the movie "Dialysis" expressed the theme of the movie so clearly, he immediately felt that it was over.

Especially when he knew that the film was also shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival, he was already a frequent visitor to several film festivals.

Although this type of film is not very popular in domestic theaters, it is indeed highly sought after in foreign film festivals.

In particular, Mei Ting and Ni Dahong, the leading actors of this movie, are typical literary film actors and have acted in many award-winning movies.

For the judges of the festival, they are already familiar faces, and they will also be more inclined to add some points to the films of these actors.

After Xu Hengzhou heard Director Cao Baoping's worries, he pointed to himself:

"Speaking of which, I'm also a familiar face in my eyes at major film festivals, right? Although I have only won the award once, I have acted in several films, and they should have been shortlisted for foreign film festivals. ”

When Cao Baoping heard Xu Hengzhou say this, he suddenly realized that he didn't need to be so nervous: "Yes, there is another actor in our movie, he has a full sense of existence in foreign film festivals." ”

Xu Hengzhou: "...... Why, I don't have enough of that, do I? ”

"Hahahaha." Cao Baoping said haha that he just wanted a double insurance, and he didn't think that Xu Hengzhou was inferior to Zhang Hanyu at all.

In short, in the apprehension of director Cao Baoping, the award ceremony officially kicked off.

In foreign film festivals, under normal circumstances, they will be broadcast on movie channels.

Even the more important film festivals will be live-streamed.

This is still very easy for many domestic audiences to watch the film festival.

But the general audience is really rushing to watch the movie on the movie channel, and once the movie channel starts to broadcast the award ceremony, they immediately stop watching it.

But there are always exceptions, such as a movie by a favorite actor that was shortlisted for a film festival.

Then everyone must still be willing to go to the awards ceremony and want to know a result.

For example, after Xu Hengzhou's fans knew that Xu Hengzhou's "Scorching Sun" was shortlisted for the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France, they looked for channels everywhere, and wanted to see the live broadcast of this film festival, but it was really not okay to broadcast it!

Then they found out that the movie channel had a broadcast of the film festival, and immediately according to the broadcast time released by the movie channel, they stayed in front of the TV and waited to watch the broadcast.

Under normal circumstances, the broadcast is only delayed by half a day compared to the live broadcast.

But this little half a day has been able to decide a lot of things.

So when the audience and fans watched the broadcast content of this film festival because of Xu Hengzhou and the movie "Scorching Sun", the domestic Weibo had already hung a hot search on the report of the film festival for a while.

The first hot search entry is very simple and straightforward.

#徐横舟! Winner! #

The first moment everyone saw this entry, they already had a realization in their hearts, Xu Hengzhou must have won another actor award.

Click in and take a look, sure enough!

Xu Hengzhou won the Best Actor award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France.

At the same time, the film "Scorching Sun" also won the Best Film Award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France, and it is also its highest award, the Golden Lotus Award.

Winning two heavyweight awards in a row is huge, not only in China, but also abroad at the same time a number of media reported on the incident.

The foreign rights of the movie "Scorching Sun" were sold at a high price in an instant!

At the award ceremony of the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France, Xu Hengzhou took the stage to receive two awards.

He jerkily gave his acceptance speech in a piece of French that he had learned in the past few days.

After that, he stepped down and hugged Mei Ting and Ni Dahong, the leading actors of the movie "Dialysis".

According to the judges who presented the awards just now, they hesitated for a long time between the two films before choosing the film "Scorching Sun" as the winner of this year's top award.

This footage was recorded truthfully and rebroadcast back to China.

Everyone sighed that the domestic film industry is becoming more and more prosperous, and foreign film festivals and festivals have our domestic films shortlisted.

In China, "Scorching Sun" has been released in theaters again, and many audiences who have been very fond of this movie are willing to go to the cinema to watch this movie again.

At the same time, another news also appeared on the hot search.

The movie "Scorching Sun" was shortlisted for the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, and it is the favorite to win the award.

Xu Hengzhou just finished winning the Best Actor Award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France, and after knowing that this movie was shortlisted for the Taiwan Golden Horse Award again, his heart instantly pounded again.

The Best Actor Award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France can be said to be a surprise, and according to what he remembers, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards will also award an actor award to this film.

In terms of gold content, I'm afraid the latter is higher.

Xu Hengzhou was very moved.