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In a white and glowing hut, Gan Tao took a long breath and then walked out of the house lightly.

Tomorrow night is the screening day of the movie "Purple Butterfly" at the Cannes Film Festival.

He thought that due to the serious domestic epidemic, France would definitely not let people in, so he did not expect to participate in the 56th Cannes Film Festival.

However, because Haishi Film Studio has invested nearly 20 million yuan in the film "Purple Butterfly". If the film cannot obtain higher returns abroad, someone will definitely come out to fill the hole.

If you want the movie to make a profit, you have to win the prize. If you want to win the prize, any creator who is familiar with you abroad must participate in the film festival.

Needless to say, Lou Ye, a director who has been devoted to studying abroad film festivals since his first director.

Zhang Ziyi's scenes of participating in the Oscars the previous year are still vivid in my mind. She also starred in "Heroes" by the domestic director Zhang Yimou last year. This film broke the domestic record, and the main creators of the film were in the limelight for a while.

As for Gan Tao, it cannot be said that it is by the way, but the qualifications of the two above are indeed much worse than those mentioned above, but at least they have won the Newcomer Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Speaking of which, he is also the only one among several major creators who won awards at the three major European film festivals.

After coordination between Haishi Studio and the official organization of the Cannes Film Festival, the group of them began to conduct physical testing ten days before departure. Until they landed in France, they walked out of the small white house, the entire testing was considered to be over.

Director Lou Ye walked from Beijing, Zhang Ziyi set out from the United States, and he boarded the plane with a person in charge of Haishi Film Factory and an interpreter in Haishi, and finally met in the hotel that had been booked in advance.

The Cannes Film Festival every year is not only a gathering place for filmmakers around the world, but also a carnival day for locals.

The people here are very strange, and it may also be related to culture. They are born to like to watch boring art films, and even Hollywood blockbusters that have begun to sweep the world have to wince.

In the booked hotel, five people squeezed into Lou Ye’s room and briefly talked about the film festival.

The chairman of this Cannes Film Festival is Patrice Shahou, a famous French director.

He still has some connection with this director. At the 51st Berlin Film Festival two years ago, this director won the Berlin Golden Bear Award for that year with the movie "Intimacy" directed by Wang Shuai for his film "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle".

"know?"

The person in charge of Haishi Studio asked him.

He tilted his head, and he was a famous director, so how could he remember his little friend?

Twilight is coming, it is useless to say more!

Whether the film can be favored by the judges depends on real effort. I can only wait until the movie will be screened tomorrow night.

Even if he asked him to tell, he couldn't explain the reason. So far, only Lou Ye has watched the film, and the others are all blindly looking at each other.

After eating some pork sausage, he walked towards the beach not far away with his hotel slippers.

In early May, the beach is gently caressing with the breeze, palm leaves rustling, and beauties in various bikinis are lying or standing to make people's eyes pleasing.

A happy thing, because he has yellow skin and dark eyes, many passengers either look sideways or avoid it, annoyed him!

After pondering for a moment, he did not choose to compete with others. Language may attack others, but it will never be respected.

Taping on the fine sand under his feet, he turned around resolutely with his breath.

The film festival organizing committee arranged a theater to screen "Purple Butterfly", which was just a small hall of 250 people.

Compared to the 2,000-seat seat in the Movie Palace, after the movie screening, there will be a huge cinema where lights hit the main creators. The screening room of "Purple Butterfly" is very inconspicuous.

At the same time, it also cast a shadow on Lou Ye and others' hearts.

Nearly half an hour after opening, only a few people walked into the cinema. At the door, Gan Tao, wearing a black suit and a bow tie, rubbed his face at a loss.

He never expected "Purple Butterfly" to win him a personal award, but if no one even wanted to watch it, he would feel very disappointed.

The sound of tapping leather shoes sounded, and he quickly looked up and saw that it was Patrice Xiahou, the chairman of the film festival, and hurriedly came forward.

He didn't care whether others knew him or not, and stretched out his hand from a distance.

"Mr. Chairman!"

Translation: "Tao, that's what he called."

He turned his head and faced Patrice Xiahou, who had his hair tied and had brown hair, and was surprised. He didn't expect that this man would know him and nodded excitedly.

After a while, the translator explained to him: "He said, I hope your performance in "Purple Butterfly" will be better than Xiaogui in "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle"!"

He panicked and made a gesture of request, and then he tugged in a series of English words, "Thank you, thank you!"

The film directors of this year have started, and the popularity of the theaters that show "Purple Butterfly" has become slightly higher, and there are even scalpers who have begun to sell tickets for "Purple Butterfly".

But not many, they are all one or two, which shows that even they are not optimistic about this movie.

The cinema lights are off.

It was drizzling like a dark curtain, and Zhang Ziyi, who covered her head with her hands and had two big braids, appeared, and the video began.

He was in the front row until a few minutes later, he realized that the movie had no subtitles, only the original title "Purple Butterfly".

Just as he thought that the actor's subtitles before the film started were cancelled, the film that had been screened for more than ten minutes actually showed the actor's subtitles again. He smacked his lips and glanced at Lou Ye who was sitting with the film festival chairman.

The overall color of the movie is black and gray, and the director likes old-fashioned portable cameras and does not press and place a tripod, so the movie viewing experience is very poor.

Either it is a vague mess, or it is like a sieve blowing through the strong wind, shaking constantly.

He worked with Lou Ye twice, but he was used to Lou Ye's shooting style, but the audience did not accommodate who you were, resulting in a dozen of them left.

On the big screen.

The black suit was open and exposed the white shirt. Situ, who was still dripping with water on his half-buried head, passed by passers-by with an umbrella on the street and a hurried look.

The black and white eyes were bloodless, the figure in the rain was lost, and the slightly hunched body seemed to have lost its support!

After the first part of the film, Situ and Yi Ling danced, sparse applause sounded for the second time in the movie hall.

He swallowed deeply and licked his dry upper and lower lips again. Gan Tao, who came to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time, felt that he would not go through this journey with these two applauses.

The "bang, bang" gunshots rang out, but the video was not over, and the audience who was about to leave sat down again. Gan Tao was very embarrassed. He wanted to get up and send Patrice Xiahou to see him off.

After the gunshots ended, the director inserted a bed scene between Zhang Ziyi and Feng Yuanzheng in a flashback.

It is the kind of person above, the person below sometimes lies down, sometimes lies down, and then the two of them keep humming.

He looked at Zhang Ziyi beside him from the corner of his eyes. Seeing that her face was not changing, he couldn't help but admire her secretly. If it were his girlfriend, he would not allow him to kill him.

The first screening of "Purple Butterfly" ended, and there was one at 10 o'clock in the evening. Several people hurriedly had dinner and waited for the evening to continue.

Due to the jet lag, he finally had a good night's sleep on the second night after arriving in Cannes, but when he woke up early in the morning, he received news about the movie "Purple Butterfly", but it was not very good.

"The movie "Purple Butterfly" directed by Lou Ye seems to be in a hurry, with a little lack of arms and legs. If the film could enrich the story for twenty minutes, it might be better!"

"Damn tones, damn lenses shaking, and the movie viewing experience is extremely poor. Are Chinese filmmakers still holding cameras in their hands? They should keep pace with the times."

"A director who focuses on filming emotions, but the emotional world in his heart is very strange!"

After some translation interpretation, Lou Ye's face became even more ugly, and Gan Tao was not much better. After all, they all prosper and lose both!

The next day, the sun was noon.

The 56th Cannes Film Festival announced the rating of "Purple Butterfly", a four-point full-score magazine. "Purple Butterfly" received 1.9 points, a low number that cannot be lower.

Even if the high score of the Cannes Film Festival does not mean that you can win the award, "Purple Butterfly" has no hope at all.

He understood that he should go home.

Before leaving, he made a special international long distance, thinking that it was rare to go abroad, so he asked his mother what Jiang Mei wanted and brought some rare things back.

But Jiang Mei knew that he was abroad and wanted nothing, so she asked him to hide abroad and not go back. No matter what, she would wait for the worsening epidemic in China to pass.

He was quite depressed, but he didn't think about where he could go in China.

The film has a bad reputation, except for Lou Ye still insisting, Zhang Ziyi is going to walk on the red carpet of the closing ceremony, and the person in charge of Haishi nodded and let him go back to China.

What can I do if I don’t return to China? The cost of a hotel is very expensive!

Isn’t it a waste of money to win a movie?

It is difficult to get out, but it is easy to come in. After a symbolic check, the airport will be released directly. He twisted his bag and went to the station. The TV series "Shuiyue Cave Heaven" is still slowly waiting in the city.

On May 26, the 56th Cannes Film Festival closed. As he had previously guessed, "Purple Butterfly" had no results.

Even though Lou Ye, who had not received the invitation letter for the closing red carpet, was still at the end. He felt that Lou Ye was a little obedient.

After reading the news, he ignored this and filmed "Shuiyue Cave" with peace of mind.

But I don’t know that on the day the festival ended, the chairman of the festival, Patrice Xiahou, found Lou Ye, who was still decadent and handed him two scripts.

After the camera was over, Cai Shaofen, who liked it all the time, was completely upgraded to the crew's pistachio, shouted: "What should I eat tonight!"

He chuckled and said, "Let someone's brother Zhang Jin treat you tonight!"

Just two days after he came back, he felt as if he was alone.

Zhang Jin and Cai Shaofen were already shameless and completely stuck together.
Chapter completed!