After participating in the opening ceremony, the film week of this year's Venice International Film Festival officially began.

As in previous years, Wu Yuan received the premiere invitation of 25 films shortlisted for the main competition unit on the opening day.

Over the next 10 days, these films will premiere on Lido, with an average of 2-3 shows per day!

Although Wu Yuan accepted all the invitations to be shortlisted for the main competition unit of the film, and even more than that, there were many films that were not shortlisted but came to Venice to participate in this year's exhibition, and they all sent invitations to Wu Yuan in a polite manner.

Large and small, he has received invitations from nearly 100 crews.

You must know that there are about 200 crews who come to participate in the Venice International Film Festival every year.

Throwing away some pure newcomer movies that are too small to dare to invite Wu Yuan, it can be said that all the crews who are a little famous have sent invitations to Wu Yuan.

Of course, he is not skilled enough to participate in so many movie screenings.

Pick and choose, even the films shortlisted for the main competition unit, he can't participate in all of them, in addition to the two Hong Kong Island movies that must go, he also picked ten more films whose directors are more famous and seem more likely to win awards to be screened and ready to attend.

"Why, are you going with me?" While Wu Yuan was making a movie viewing plan for the next ten days for himself, he asked Liu Yifei, who was sitting in front of the vanity mirror to take care of his skin.

"Let's see each other." Liu Yifei shook his head and refused Wu Yuan's invitation.

It's all old husbands and wives, so there's no need to stick together every day.

There are still some differences between her and Wu Yuan's viewing preferences, and there is no need for the two of them to choose some movies that the other party likes but they don't like in order to get into each other's favor.

Instead of this, it is better to choose the movie you want to watch separately, but it is more appropriate.

If you happen to have a movie that you all want to see, it's never too late to go together.

"Well, that's what I thought too." Wu Yuan nodded and said without surprise.

Liu Yifei has never been a love brain, and he has no idea of tying Wu Yuan to his belt.

Wu Yuan is not the kind of person who is insecure, and he will not force Liu Yifei to be more consistent with him.

Both of them leave a lot of space for each other.

For example, Wu Yuan never cares about Liu Yifei's usual private parties and fun, like she often goes to karaoke, parties, or shopping with Wang Jia, Su Chang and other girlfriends, Wu Yuan never mixes.

And Liu Yifei has never been much integrated into Wu Yuan's circle, like Wu Yuan and Chen Kun, Xia Yu and his wife, Liu Ye and others occasionally get together, usually Liu Yifei will not take the initiative to ask to participate.

Both of them have relatively independent dating circles.

Although many so-called "love experts" believe that falling in love between men and women is the integration between two circles, and each other must integrate into each other's circle to be healthy love.

But Wu Yuan scoffed at this statement.

The circles are different, and they don't have to be forced.

Liu Yifei's girlfriends, some of them are actresses in the circle, some of them are college classmates who chose to change careers after graduation, and some of them are even friends from Jiangcheng's hometown who she knew when she was a child.

Between Wu Yuan and the three, there is no common topic to speak of.

Yu Gong, Su Chang and other actors, the resources or interpersonal relationships they come into contact with are too far from Wu Yuan's level, what they study and discuss on weekdays is which TV drama crew is short of people, and which crew has a role suitable for them.

And Wu Yuan is thinking about what movies he will make this year and what movies he will make next year, and the work in the field of TV dramas has even been completely delegated to the company's TV drama department.

In private, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei's girlfriends have no common topics to talk about, even if they forcibly integrate into their circle, they will only be very abrupt and uncomfortable.

It's Wu Yuan's circle, in fact, Liu Yifei is quite easy to fit in.

After all, they are all actors, although the coffee position is a little higher, they are the three golden queens, Venice actors, etc., and the worst Liu Ye is also a double actor of the Golden Rooster and Golden Horse.

But at least they are all actors, and they are essentially no different from Liu Yifei.

It's just that Wu Yuan didn't force herself into Liu Yifei's circle, so she didn't force this matter, and she and Wu Yuan's friends only maintained a mutual exchange of contact information, and they usually attended the event to the extent that they would chat a few words about the recent situation.

Maintaining such a social distance, whether it is Liu Yifei or Wu Yuan, they all feel just right, and the two of them are also very comfortable.

Liu Xiaoli sometimes jokes that the two of them are sticky and sticky to death in some aspects, but sometimes they keep a clear enough distance, which gives each other a lot of freedom, and the relationship is very healthy.

The two who are used to getting along like this do not need to act in unison at Venice Film Week.

After a look at the movies that were interested in each other, Wu Yuan only made an appointment with Liu Yifei to watch them three times, and every day after that, the two of them participated in the screening separately.

Of course, the screenings of "Walking with God" and "Painted Skin 2" in the era of light and shadow are absolutely not to be missed.

On the fourth day of the film week, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei met together, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, they came to a cinema on Lido Island to participate in the Venice screening of "Walking with God".

Entering the cinema from the safe passage in the backfield in a low-key manner, before he could get used to the darkness in front of him, Wu Yuan heard a greeting.

"Director Wu, here."

The starring crew of "Walking with God", who had arrived for a long time, greeted Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei babblingly under the leadership of director Zhang Guorong.

Smiled and hugged Zhang Guorong, Wu Yuan looked him up and down, and said with a sigh: "Leslie, you are getting younger and younger." ”

"It seems that after you transformed into a director in the past two years, it has become a lot easier."

Zhang Guorong, who is standing in front of Wu Yuan at this moment, looks even younger and more energetic than when Wu Yuan asked him to meet and talk about the movie "The Undertaker" in terms of appearance.

Do the math, Zhang Guorong is in his early fifties this year, but Wu Yuan looks like he is in his thirties and forties.

can proudly say that in this time and space, his fate has changed the most, and it is Zhang Guorong, who is bigger than Sandra Bullock, who was unlucky enough to be robbed of three roles.

Zhang Guorong, who originally lived in 2003, not only lived well, but also got younger and younger.

He is no longer in movies now, and he hasn't released records for a long time, and he has completely transformed into a director behind the scenes.

And Zhang Guorong is indeed quite talented in directing.

After Wu Yuan's full cultivation, he had no chance to cash in on his talent as a director, and finally bloomed his brilliant talent as a director in this time and space.

To be honest, Wu Yuan's so-called all-out cultivation is just to provide him with a good script and enough funds for filming.

But for Zhang Guorong, who has enough talent, this is enough.

"Director Wu, you haven't seen the finished film of "Walking with God" this time, have you?"

"Come on, come on, I've prepared the best viewing position for you, you come and palm."

"In terms of fantasy and magic movies, you are an authority among domestic directors!"

"I don't expect to be better than director Kaigo, but I'm quite satisfied."

"Painted Skin 2" next door will only be screened tomorrow, and the director of this movie is Chen Kaige.

Zhang Guorong is very clear about Chen Kaige's directing level, he thinks that he is still not as good as Chen Kaige, but he also thinks that he has shown 100% of the level this time, and he should be able to get good results.

Wu Yuan nodded with a smile: "Leslie, your current directing level is already very good, I believe in you." ”

"I'm ready for a fantasy movie adventure."

Wu Yuan raised his head and looked around the scene in the screening hall, only to find that the large screening hall that could accommodate nearly five hundred people was already full.

And almost all of them are foreigners, and less than 20% of them are Chinese or Asians with yellow skin and black hair.

It stands to reason that as a new director who came to Venice for the first time, Zhang Guorong should not have received such a high level of attention and triggered such a good screening effect.

But Wu Yuan figured out in an instant why "Walking with God" attracted so many people to watch the screening.

Zhang Guorong filmed "Farewell My Concubine", which is regarded as a classic in the European film industry under Chen Kaige, which is one of the top 100 movies in film history, and in the international status of Chinese films, it is on par with "In the Mood for Love" by the King of Sunglasses, and it is a representative work of Chinese films in the world.

Although Zhang Guorong did not star in "In the Mood for Love", another work of the King of Sunglasses won the Best Director at Cannes "Springtime", Zhang Guorong is also the leading actor.

In addition, Wu Yuan's "The Undertaker" made Zhang Guorong win the Berlin actor.

There is no doubt that Zhang Guorong is very well-known in Europe, especially in the three major European circles, and he can be regarded as the top name of Chinese actors overseas, even more famous than Gong Li.

In this case, even if Zhang Guorong did not come to Venice as an actor this time, but brought the film to Venice as a director, these local audiences and film critics in Venice would also give him face and come to watch.

This is the minimum respect that a top Chinese filmmaker should receive.

Of course, if Zhang Guorong's movie is not done well, then he should be scolded or scolded.

Even Wu Yuan couldn't get the free spray treatment.

"Okay, today is your home field, so I won't take the lead."

After taking a look at the situation in the screening hall, Wu Yuan pulled Liu Yifei and came to the place reserved for them in advance in a very low-key manner, and waited quietly for the movie to be screened.

As he said, today is Zhang Guorong's home field.

After confirming that all the guests who came to watch the screening had arrived, Zhang Guorong walked to the big screen with the microphone in high spirits.

In his early fifties, he still has the vigor of a young man.

"Dear critics, guests and friends, welcome to the Venice premiere of my new film "Walking with God"!"

"I know that most of the people here know me and know that I am an actor."

"But please forget about my identity as an actor for the next two hours."

"I hope that after today, you will have a new label in your hearts."

"I'm not just a good actor, I'm going to be a good director, and I'm confident about that!"

Looking at Zhang Guorong, who was in high spirits at the front desk and wanted to refresh the impression of everyone present and remember his new identity as a director, Wu Yuan smiled at the corner of his mouth and was the first to give applause.

He was sincerely happy and relieved for this man whose fate was changed by him.

Since inviting Zhang Guorong to shoot "The Undertaker", which changed Zhang Guorong's original fate, Wu Yuan was a little nervous, and finally let go of it completely at this moment.

At least his butterfly-stirred wings ended up with a good result, didn't it? (End of chapter)