The premiere of "Pieces of a Woman" is scheduled for the 5th, the fourth day of the festival.

Zhang Yimou's original intention was to arrive in Shuicheng on the 4th, but both China Film and the film festival officials strongly asked the crew to participate in the opening ceremony of the film festival.

China Film hopes that the crew of "Pieces of a Woman" can make an early appearance and strive for the first round of exposure for the film on the most dazzling opening red carpet.

There are too few directors at this year's film festival, and Venice wants to get a touch of Zhang Yimou's light.

Unable to withstand persuasion from many parties, Zhang Yimou finally agreed to participate in the opening of the film festival.

Zhang Yuanjun still has some unfinished work in China, and will arrive in Venice on the 4th.

As the only Chinese film shortlisted in the main competition unit of this film festival, it is Zhang Yimou's return to Shuicheng, and it is starring Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, it can be said that "Pieces of Women" carries very big expectations in China.

The industry hopes that the film can add another trophy to Chinese films in Shuicheng.

But it's strange that "Pieces of a Woman", which was shortlisted for the main competition, has not been as loud on the Internet as "Lao Paoer" since the shortlist was announced!!

Zhang Yimou + Zhang Yuanjun + Liu Yifei can't fight Feng Xiaogang + Li Yifeng + Wu Sign.

"Lao Paoer" is only the closing film, and "Pieces of a Woman" is the hope of the whole village that will compete for the Golden Lion Award.

But literary films are literary films after all, they can't compare to commercial films like "Lao Paoer", Li Yifeng and Wu Qian are the most popular and reddden little fresh meat, and the online fans screamed, I don't know if they thought they won the Venice actor.

The group arrived at Marco Polo Airport on the morning of the opening ceremony, which was not Liu Yifei's first visit to Venice, but it was her first time to attend the Venice Film Festival.

Facts, the Venice Film Festival is not held in the city of Venice, but on an 18-kilometer-long sandbar southeast of Venice, which is considered the outer island of Venice, called Lido.

The most convenient way to get to Lido Island from Venice is by water taxi, but during the festival, taxis are expensive to death, and hotels on the island are just as expensive, with Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei's suite costing $8,000 a night.

The whole world is ripping off customers like this.

After the crew checked in at the hotel, their respective staff were busy and began to prepare for the red carpet of the opening ceremony in the afternoon.

At this time, it was already night in China, and Zhang Yuanjun held a meeting with director Gu Changwei in the field to discuss the casting of "Redemption".

There are three main characters in "Redemption", the protagonist Li Fuyong, Li Fuyong's nephew Li Jianming, and Li Fuyong's ex-wife Yang Huan.

Yang Huan is the titular heroine, but there are not many scenes.

It is difficult to choose Li Jianming, Li Jianming has a lot of roles, and there is a lot of room to play, Gu Changwei and Zhang Yuanjun both want to choose a young man with good acting skills and high talent.

Gu Changwei and Zhang Yuanjun don't like to use amateurs, but there are not many young actors in the circle who can play Li Jianming, and there are relatively few to choose from.

Huang Bo half-jokingly recommended Zhang Yixing to him, saying that he recognized his younger brother.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't pay attention to Huang Bo's recommendation at all, sometimes Zhang Yuanjun really felt that Zhang Yixing was holding the handle of Huang Bo, Huang Sanshi, Sun Honglei and others in his hands, otherwise how could they be so good to a newcomer, and take them with them wherever they go.

"There are too few post-90s actors." Zhang Yuanjun flipped through the actor information collected today and complained to Gu Changwei.

Gu Changwei smoked a cigarette and looked at the actor's profile, but he was looking at the actor's profile of Li Fuyong's ex-wife.

While watching, he responded to Zhang Yuanjun: "The oldest post-90s generation is only 25 years old, and the actor is not enlightened at this age. ”

The literary coordinator sitting next to Gu Changwei smiled: "Some people have won the Cannes Best Actor at the age of 24." ”

Zhang Yuanjun pointed at the man with a pen and said with a smile: "Wow, you person, I don't eat this set." ”

"Facts." The coordinator smiled.

Gu Changwei also smiled: "You are an exception, don't count." ”

"I don't know if I hear it." Zhang Yuanjun smiled.

Zhang Yuanjun picked up a few resumes of actors, got up and said before leaving: "I'll make an appointment to meet and chat, so I can't see the reputation when I sit in the room and read the resume." ”

Zhang Yuanjun returned to the room, ready to wash his face and go out to find something to eat, the WeChat phone rang, and when he saw that it was Fan Bingbing, Zhang Yuanjun felt that she should have nothing to do with herself, so she answered.

"Hey, Yuanjun." Fan Bingbing's nice voice came from the mobile phone.

"Hey, Sister Bingbing."

"It's so late, come out for a supper." Let's just say that she won't have anything to do with herself.

"I'm not in the capital, I'm on a business trip." Zhang Yuanjun said.

"Where are you on a business trip?"

"Qingdao." The sea scene of "Redemption" will be filmed here.

"Do you know where I'm from?"

"You can't be from Qingdao, right?" Zhang Yuanjun really didn't expect it.

"Yes, I'm from Qingdao." Fan Bingbing said in Qingdao dialect, "And I'm in Qingdao right now." ”

Speaking of which, Zhang Yuanjun couldn't help but suspect that Fan Bingbing was specially found.

Fan Bingbing must have known that Zhang Yuanjun would think so, so he explained: "I have been resting at home with Brother Chen for the past few days, and I heard that you are also in Qingdao, so Brother Chen said that he would like to invite you to have a supper, and he didn't have your WeChat, so let me contact you." ”

"That's right."

Fan Bingbing asked directly: "Appreciate your face, right?" ”

"You said so, I didn't go, but I was wrong. But I can say okay, I'll come empty-handed, and you two will make good arrangements. ”

"No problem." Fan Bingbing said with a smile.

The two made an appointment to meet at a location, and Zhang Yuanjun called an assistant and set off.

"The purpose is too obvious." As soon as Xiao Zhao heard that it was Fan Bingbing in the car, he knew what she wanted to do.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't know, and said with a smile: "It's okay, let's meet for a meal and chat." ”

Don't look at Fan Bingbing's reputation and Fan Ye's reputation, she looks domineering and exposed, in fact, she has a very good reputation in the circle, she has a lot of friends, and she is kind to everyone.

When he arrived at the agreed place, Li Chen's assistant waited at the door, and when he saw Zhang Yuanjun coming, he took the person inside.

"If it weren't for Qingdao, it would be hard to see you." Li Chen said.

"I'm usually busy with work, and I don't want to eat out when I'm not busy." Zhang Yuanjun sat down with a smile.

"It's different when you're married, Gu Jia." Fan Bingbing said with a smile.

A few people laughed a few words, and then ate and drank.

"I'll take a picture and covet her."

But Zhang Yuanjun's move in Fan Bingbing's eyes is to report to his wife: "Report it, report it, and return it to others." ”

"I have to report to her when I come out for dinner? What family status I have. ”

Fan Bingbing's purpose is, of course, to find out the news of "Redemption", or that sentence, she is highly topical because she herself and her team can toss, but her actual film resources are not good.

But her emotional intelligence is obviously much higher than that of ordinary actresses, she did not take the initiative to listen to the news of "Redemption", but handed over the initiative to Zhang Yuanjun, and let Zhang Yuanjun act as a narrator to tell her and Li Chen about the work in Qingdao, and then let Zhang Yuanjun tell the story of "Redemption".

This made Zhang Yuanjun very comfortable, so he communicated some news of the crew with the two.

Dinner chats, it's nothing more than these things.

Of course, Fan Bingbing silently wrote down in his heart that Yang Huan, the heroine of "Redemption", has not yet decided on an actor.

After saying "Redemption", Fan Bingbing brought the topic to Liu Yifei again: "Yifei is in Venice now." "Pieces of a Woman" was also a resource for many actresses of her age at that time.

"Well," Zhang Yuanjun looked at the time, "the film festival should be about to open." (End of chapter)