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On the front foot, Wu Yuan and the crew members stepped on the Cannes red carpet.

On the back foot, but ten minutes later, the relevant news was reported on various domestic portals for the first time.

[The 58th Cannes International Film Festival opened, and director Wu Yuan became the youngest director in the main competition unit! ] 】

[Gong Huang holds hands with Director Wu, and the crew of "Love" appears on the Cannes red carpet! ] 】

[Director Wu Yuan was shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival for the first time! ] 】

Under these text messages, attached is a photo of Gong Li holding Wu Yuan, and the two smiling and waving on the red carpet.

The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful, if no one reminds him, who can see that the younger and handsome man in the photo is actually a director?

Under these flash reports, netizens from Hupu and Sohu left comments as soon as possible.

"Although it's not the first time I've seen Director Wu's photos, every time I see it, I am surprised, how can I become a director when I am so handsome!"

"This is Director Wu's second literary film after more than two years, and he has been shortlisted for the main competition unit in Cannes, and he is ambitious!"

"If Director Wu hadn't gone to Cannes this year, I would have almost forgotten that he was also the best director in Berlin."

Liu Yifei held the laptop, looked at these comments on the Internet, and pursed his mouth, which was called an envy.

She hadn't seen her brother for almost four months!

Since the last time he confessed on the set on the spur of the moment, Wu Yuan went to the United States.

As soon as Liu Yifei's "fiery offensive" was released, it sank into the sea, so he could only send text messages to Wu Yuan every day to share and share interesting stories about the crew.

Because of the time difference, and Wu Yuan is indeed very busy in the United States, he does not reply to messages frequently, which makes Liu Yifei very melancholy.

Originally, she could also walk the red carpet with the crew of "Love", and took this opportunity to meet her brother.

Although she only made a cameo appearance for four or five minutes in "Love", because this movie is almost the rivalry between the male and female protagonists, an elderly couple, her role is already very important.

But "The Condor Heroes" is also approaching completion in recent days, and she really can't ask for leave.

can only wait for the crew to finish, and then fly to Cannes to meet the crew of "Love".

Now watching the news of the "Love" crew walking the red carpet, it is called an envy.

At a time when blanket stars have not yet become popular, being able to participate in the three major European film festivals and walk the red carpet of the three major film festivals is already an honor that most domestic actors can't ask for.

"Sissi!" Liu Xiaoli walked in from outside the door, looked at Liu Yifei lying on the bed, and said dotingly: "The crew will be finished tomorrow, and when the banquet is completed, you have to thank Producer Zhang and Director Yu." ”

"I've seen the original schedule, this drama should have been completed in April, it was Producer Zhang and Director Yu who sympathized with us, I was afraid that you would not be able to stand it for a long time, so it reduced the daily shooting volume and lengthened the filming cycle."

"Got it." Liu Yifei nodded sullenly and muttered, "It's not for the sake of my senior brother's face." ”

The smile on Liu Xiaoli's face froze, and her expression was a little embarrassed.

When Wu Yuan came to visit the class that day, he told Liu Yifei's mother and daughter to pay attention to their bodies, be careful when hanging Weiya, don't be uncomfortable and hold on, all of which were heard by Zhang Jizhong and Yu Min.

In the eyes of these two old and refined people, where is Wu Yuan telling Liu Yifei's mother and daughter, he is completely talking to them, so that they don't "treat" their little girlfriend badly.

Well, in the eyes of Zhang Jizhong and Yu Min, Liu Yifei must have a leg with Wu Yuan.

Since he came to visit the class, Liu Yifei's treatment in the crew has been improved by another level.

Zhang Jizhong and Yu Min care more about her body than Liu Yifei herself, but if Weiya hangs for a long time, she must let her rest and rest more, and she doesn't dare to really let her fall into any disease.

This naturally slowed down the filming progress of the crew, so that "The Condor Heroes", which was originally scheduled to be completed in April, was filmed in mid-May.

For Liu Yifei, it is indeed a lot easier, the daily shooting volume is not so heavy, and she also knows that this is all Wu Yuan's face.

The next day, on May 12, 2005, "The Condor Heroes" was completed in Xiangshan Film and Television City.

After Liu Yifei and her mother packed their luggage, they went directly to the airport, transferred to Cannes, and joined the crew of "Love".

At this end, after Wu Yuan walked the red carpet with the crew members, he simply dealt with the local media, and the next day, he attended the Cannes screening of "The Best Time" as scheduled.

This is a romance film, there are three era backgrounds in the film, intercepting Shu Qi and Zhang Zhen in three different eras with completely different styles, telling a love of three lives and three lives, and the love is not over.

As the best director on Taiwan, Hou Xiaoxian naturally made a new breakthrough in the movie.

The second part of the story is full of classical feelings, and it is a bold act to express the situational ideas of the characters with no dialogue at all, and a condensed subtitle narration.

In the end, the effect is not bad, with a bit of the silent film flavor when the movie was first born.

This movie is beautiful, with simple shots and the best dialogue, creating a wonderful, beautiful romantic love, full of strength and energy, presenting a very Hou Hsiao-hyun story.

But if you want to say how good this movie is, good enough to be the Palme d'Or, that's really unlikely.

It's not just Wu Yuan who thinks so.

The on-site house catalogue in Cannes the next day also gave the answer.

"The Best Time" has a score of 2.8 in the house magazine, and among the ten works that have been publicly rated for the main competition unit, they can't even enter the top three.

Of course, when the movie ended, Wu Yuan still praised the movie for a lot of face, and praised Director Hou Xiaoxian without hesitation.

In addition, he also sent an invitation to the screening of "Love" to all the crew members of "The Best Time".

Under the arrangement of the organizing committee, "Love" will be screened at the Cannes Cinema Palace on May 18, which can be said to be a very face-saving and important arrangement.

And when Wu Yuan returned to the hotel where the crew stayed after participating in the screening of "The Best Time", he also met Liu Yifei who came from China to meet the crew.

In front of Liu Xiaoli, Wu Yuan reached out and touched Liu Yifei's head with a smile, "Sissi, is "The Condor Heroes" finished? ”

"Senior brother!" Liu Yifei snorted dissatisfiedly and knocked Wu Yuan's hand down, "I'm not a child anymore, don't keep touching the top of my head." ”

Wu Yuan's action always reminded her of the way she looked when she caressed cats and dogs at home, as if she was teasing a pet, she didn't like it!

"Okay." Wu Yuan shook his head with a smile and took the mother and daughter upstairs to the hotel.

"You are here, and in the next few days, the films shortlisted for the main competition unit will be screened in Cannes one after another."

"You can get a sneak peek."

Wu Yuan knows Liu Yifei well, don't look at her lively and cheerful appearance, but inside she is pretending to be a literary young woman, and she usually likes to watch some literary movies.

also often talks about "wanting to act in challenging literary films".

An occasion like Cannes is very suitable for Liu Yifei, like putting a hamster in the granary.

In the next few days, Wu Yuan took the crew of "Love" and frequently attended the film screenings of the main competition units.

On May 13, Amos Jeddah's "Free Zone" was screened, and Wu Yuan was invited to attend.

I thought the biggest selling point of this Israeli film was that it invited Natalie Portman, who was born in the holy city of Jerusalem, to lead the starring role.

In addition, the revelation that the kissing scene was filmed in the Jewish holy place "Wall of Sighs", which was fiercely criticized by the congregation, is also excellent hype.

But I didn't expect that when this movie was screened, what surprised the critics and invited guests the most was that Laszlo, who was over the middle of the year, made a splash with his supporting role in the film, which left the deepest impression on everyone.

In the evening, Wu Yuan also took Liu Yifei to visit Macé Beach in Cannes.

This year Cannes opened an amphitheater on the beach of Macé, where all film lovers can enjoy film music from popular films, documentaries and musical films.

In the evening, the first "Star Wars" released in 1977 and "Star Wars 4: A New Hope" in 1997 will also be screened here.

Wu Yuan took Liu Yifei and the sea breeze on the beach to relive these two classic science fiction movies.

On May 14, Wu Yuan was invited to attend the screening of "Qinghong".

The movie "Qinghong" is the subject that Wang Xiaoshuai is best at.

He uses the love story of a young man and a woman to depict the social reality of the huge economic and cultural differences between urban and rural areas in China.

This movie can be called his forte, and it just can fully show Wang Xiaoshuai's edge.

But this year's Cannes is a big year, and the Darnay brothers, who won the Palme d'Or for "Rosetta" six years ago, have made a second hit for the Palme d'Or with their new film "The Child".

Then there was Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers".

Even Wu Yuan, a rising star, also brought "Love", a work that was praised by the jury.

Wang Xiaoshuai's "Qinghong" is not ordinarily stressful.

In the past few days, there has been a lot of fighting between the local house magazines in Cannes.

"Free Zone" led the way with a house magazine score of 3.22, followed by "Green Red" with a field magazine score of 3.18, becoming the top two in the current screening of films.

These two films were also widely acclaimed, and were praised by almost all major theater magazines.

But the Cannes jury is known to be notoriously maverick.

Don't get the local media to get your entries at the Cannes Film Festival, otherwise 100% of them won't be received.

The 77-year-old Oscar is notoriously good for predictions, as well as various outpost awards, and almost every year, the list of Oscar winners does not produce the results predicted by the media.

But few of the media who dare to predict the Oscars have the courage to make a mistake in front of the 58-year-old Cannes Film Festival.

No one can pinpoint the aesthetic preferences of the members of the Cannes jury, which vary greatly from year to year.

The more sought after in the field magazine, the more likely it is to be cold, and in the end you don't get any awards.

Among the films shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes International Film Festival last year, the highest house magazine rating was "2046" by the King of Sunglasses, which received a full 3.3 house magazine score.

Then, "2046" did not win a single award at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

The praise received by "Qinghong" not only did not make Wang Xiaoshuai relax, but became more nervous.

That's it, after watching it for a few more days, the time came on May 18th, and "Love" premiered in Cannes!

Wu Yuan specially invited the crews of "Qinghong", "The Best Time" and "Underworld" to attend the premiere.

Although he and the latter two crew members are not familiar with each other, they are all a family when they go out, and they should unite with each other.

A little after two o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Yuan was outside the Palais du Cinema in Cannes, and began to greet the guests and film critics who came to watch the movie.

As one of the hot figures in this year's Cannes, the premiere of Wu Yuan's "Love" has also been followed and looked forward to by countless people.

From the fact that the organizers of the film festival lent the film palace that can accommodate 2,000 people to Wu Yuan for the premiere, it can be seen how much everyone is looking forward to this movie.

If the premiere is not in the Palais du Cinema, there will not be enough seats!

First of all, their own people, the members of the Huaxia Legion, under the leadership of Han Dong, came together to cheer for "Love".

After greeting them, Liu Yifei took them into the movie palace first.

After entertaining his own people, other film crews who were also shortlisted for the main competition unit, whether they came to investigate the enemy or simply cheered, Wu Yuan also greeted him with a smile.

Just when he had just sent the crew of "Free Zone" to the Movie Palace, an unexpected guest disrupted his pace.

In the 1980s, he began to serve as the director of the Cannes Film Festival, with full responsibility for the selection of films, and held the final decision of the shortlisted films in each unit.

This made Wu Yuan very flattered.

This is not the case when the jury will be present at the screening.

Gilles Jacob, the president of the festival, rarely attends a film screening during the festival because his status is too special.

Wu Yuan hurriedly greeted him in person, and saw Gilles Jacob, whose hair was almost bald, and walked on the steps of the movie palace with a member of the jury.

"Welcome, thank you very much, Mr. President, for coming to the premiere of my film."

Gilles Jacob, who stepped on the movie palace, showed a kind smile and held Wu Yuan's hand tightly: "I also want to see what kind of masterpieces a talented director who made a work like "The Undertaker" at the age of 20 will bring to the world film industry. ”

Wu Yuan smiled and nodded.

For Gilles Jacob, the president of the Cannes Film Festival, Wu Yuan really admires it.

Among the three major film festivals in Europe, only Cannes became more and more prosperous and influential, all thanks to Gilles Jacob.

It was he who single-handedly started the internationalization of the Festival de Cannes.

Before the concept of "globalization" became popular, the Festival de Cannes had gradually developed its unique "globalization".

Although the later Cannes was increasingly criticized for being too commercialized, at least this commercialization allowed Cannes to survive and become more and more prosperous.

Berlin and Venice, which do not embrace commerce, have long been less influential than Cannes, and they are even half dead.

Judging from the development of the film festival, the president of Gilles Jacob is undoubtedly qualified and excellent.

"Please come in!"

After Wu Yuan greeted the members of the jury one by one, he invited them to enter the movie.

With batch after batch of guests and audiences entered.

The Cannes premiere of "Love" also started on time at 4 o'clock in the afternoon!

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