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After Andy left, Renly did not immediately start working. After lying on the balcony and enjoying sunbathing all afternoon, he finally started to get busy when night fell..
Renly and Ryan reunited and attended a private party hosted by Cannes Film Festival Chairman Gilles Jacob before the official opening. All judges from the main competition unit and Un Certain Regard unit were present together, and others arrived at Cannes early. The crew and celebrities are all invited.
At the party, there are all kinds of flowers and flowers, and Renly is naturally one of the important focuses..
The most interesting moment is the meeting of the "Troika", Renly Hall, Ryan Gosling and Leonardo DiCaprio. These three actors are said to be the most popular actors at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The highest troika, not only movie fans and reporters, but also European filmmakers are full of interest and curiosity.
Of course, there is also Thierry Fromaud who cannot be ignored..
As the owner of the final decision and selection rights for the films shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and prestigious people in the industry. There are countless rumors about him in the industry. What is certain is that he is not an easy person to get along with. His personality is strong and picky, which caused a lot of complaints and conflicts during the cooperation process..
But as the chairman of the film selection committee, Thierry's work is crucial. He is the guarantee of the quality and stardom of the entire film festival. His skills, abilities and taste will determine the direction of the Cannes Film Festival brand. Toughness and iron fist, this is his style.
An insider once revealed that 80% of the works shortlisted for Cannes rely on quality, and 20% are other things. The so-called other things are connections, direct relatives, interests, and starlight... And this "100%" "Twenty out of 10" is precisely what is most difficult to control. The effectiveness of Thierry's work in the past ten years is obvious to all..
Everybody loves Thierry Frémaux. Everybody hates Thierry Frémaux.
By the way, Gilles Jacob began serving as the chairman of the Cannes Film Festival's selection committee in 1977. After 23 years of accumulation and polishing, he became the chairman of the Cannes Film Festival in 2000; the following year, Gilles Si extended an olive branch to Thierry and invited him to succeed him as chairman of the film selection committee..
In fact, Thierry is younger and kinder than expected..
His gray hair and dense crow's feet are always easy to misunderstand. He is not fifty-three years old, but seventy-three years old. But after actually meeting and talking, his unique artist temperament is indeed different, and it is not what he imagined. Maturity and stability or cunning and shrewdness, but the arrogance and aloofness of immersed in one's own world possessed by artistic creators. In addition to this, there is also a hint of businessman's calculation..
If Renly were to describe it, he would choose a word with oriental cultural characteristics: Confucian merchant.
This was indeed far from the rumored film-selection devil. However, Renly was convinced that Thierry's behavior should be completely different between his working state and his leisure state..
“……In fact, my original idea was to invite 'Gravity' to serve as the opening film." Thierry showed a sad expression and shook his head repeatedly, "But unfortunately, Alfonso said that post-production still needs After spending a lot of time and effort, Venice and Toronto may not even be able to catch up. Is this true?？”
Renly was slightly surprised.
“"Gravity" and "The Great Gatsby" are both produced and distributed by Warner Bros. But Renly has never heard of such details. Of course, Warner Bros. has no need to report it to him..
But it would be interesting to see "Gravity" replace "The Great Gatsby" as the opening film at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
“To be honest, I don't know." Renly replied with a smile, "However, we encountered many technical difficulties during filming before, and Alfonso has been trying to solve them to truly create a unique visual film. It’s a space movie to experience, so post-production is bound to be extremely difficult. But you’re stumped by the specific situation. To be honest, I know nothing about post-production..”
this is the truth.
Renly really didn't know much about the complexity of movie post-production; but what was certain was that the post-production of computer special effects obviously required more time and energy, not to mention the 3D technology that has now truly entered its mature stage, "Avatar" The post-production period is the most typical example, which took nearly three years..
This time too.
“After all the filming of "Gravity" was completed, Renly joined the crew of "The Balladeer"; but the result was the other way around. "The Ballad" was the first to land on the stage of the Cannes Film Festival, but "Gravity" was still in full swing. In post-production.
However, in the face of Renly's answer, Thierry's eyes flashed slightly, obviously not believing Renly's words, but he did not expose it, and still said with a smile, "This is really a pity. . Now it seems that Alberto should be very happy.”
Alberto-Barbera, new president of Venice Film Festival.
For Chinese audiences, the most familiar person should be the former chairman Marco-Muller. He once went to China to study and his first wife was also Chinese. After taking over the chairmanship of the Venice Film Festival in 2004, he Shuicheng has opened its doors to Chinese-language films, and has achieved a lot in the past eight years..
The chairman of the Venice Film Festival has a limited number of years, with a cycle of four years. During the two cycles that Marco served as chairman, Venice's international reputation and artistic achievements had both advantages and disadvantages, which caused many controversies, but it was difficult to accurate description.
On the one hand, Marco took the initiative to open the door to Hollywood, followed the example of Cannes, welcomed the arrival of countless top stars, and concocted a lot of focus on topics. This also brought considerable financial revenue to Venice, and even the tourism industry in Venice appeared. recovery momentum.
On the other hand, Marco lacked enough promotion for local Italian films, which triggered a strong backlash from local forces. At the same time, Marco invested too much in star effect, resulting in a significant decline in the quality of the participating films, and failed to accurately grasp the balance..
That's not all.
Faced with the impact of the Toronto Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival's appeal to Hollywood is declining sharply, and it has fallen into a rut again; while Italy's economic decline and Venice's high prices have formed a contradiction, which has reduced the film festival's sales market Gradually, other film producers have turned away..
In addition, the ambitious renovation project of the Venice Cinema Palace planned in 2007 was sentenced to "capital punishment" last year. First, toxic asbestos was found in the foundation, and then it was discovered that the water quality of the foundation was no longer suitable for construction, which directly led to the construction of the Cinema Palace. It completely came to nothing. Tens of millions of euros were spent but nothing was achieved..
Worldwide, because of Marco Muller, people have re-understood the Venice Film Festival, in a positive sense; in Europe, because of Marco Müller, people have re-understood the Venice Film Festival, in a negative sense..
Last year, one of the hottest topics in the entire European art film field was whether Marco should continue to stay in office and whether he was willing to fight for it. Even during the film festivals in Berlin and Cannes, discussions were endless; after repeated careful consideration , Marco still chose to step down, and was replaced by Alberto, who served as chairman of the Venice Film Festival's film selection committee from 1998 to 2002..
This is Alberto’s first year taking over the Venice Film Festival, which can be said to be a time of intense attention and great pressure..
The relationship between the three major European film festivals is contradictory. They compete with and support each other, care for each other and compete with each other..
Behind Thierry's seemingly warm and friendly words, there are secret speculations and inquiries, trying to get further information from Renly. Obviously, if "Gravity" finally goes to Venice, he will be very, very disappointed. , the emotions of jealousy and envy should not be accurately distinguished.
The smile on Renly's lips rose slightly. He felt that these intrigues in the art field were actually kind of cute..
“I really don’t know, I can only cross my fingers and pray now. For Warner Bros., they naturally hope to catch up with Venice or Toronto, which is a good thing for the box office. But, we missed Cannes, who knows if it will still happen Will you miss Venice and Toronto? "Renly replied seriously as if he didn't realize the depth of Thierry's words..
There was a faint smile in Thierry's eyes. Renly's words were hinting that the post-production progress was still not satisfactory to Warner Brothers. Now they are urging them. Missing Cannes was an accident, while missing Venice and Toronto It is also a high probability event.
“Oh, poor Alberto. I'm really looking forward to this year's Venice film list. You know, Alberto's artistic vision is always admirable. I used to particularly enjoy communicating with him," Thierry revealed. His eyes showed regret and worry, his eyes were full of sincerity, and he could not feel any hypocrisy at all..
Renly shrugged slightly and said with a smile, "Sorry, I can't participate in this topic. There must be an art film list exchange group among you, but I am not in it..”
The teasing tone immediately made Thierry laugh happily, but he did not respond directly and then changed the topic..
Thierry never noticed it. It wasn't until Renly turned around and left and tasted it carefully again that the staying power slowly came back. Only then did he realize that after going all the way to the end, Renly actually He didn't say anything, everything was what he took for granted. Renly just stroked his hair gently. When the whole conversation was over, not a single leaf among the thousands of flowers touched him..
This realization made Thierry slightly stunned, and then his smile rose slightly. Rather than being angry and annoyed, it was more ridiculous and helpless that he couldn't help but laugh..
It seems that this famous actor is obviously more profound and interesting than imagined; the title of hereditary noble is definitely not just a false name for a down-and-out noble..
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