Introduction to the 68th Cannes International Film Festival

Hou Hsiao-hsien doesn't regret losing the Palme d 'Or: the creator thinks the competition is over.

Although Hou Hsiao-hsien was shortlisted for Cannes many times in the past, he only won the jury award for the film Dream of Life 1993 (Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige won the only Palme d 'Or award in Chinese film so far in the same year), and this time he became the third Chinese director to win the best director award after Wong Kar-wai and Yang Dechang. Looking back 15 years ago, Yang Dechang won this honor with "1 1", and the "Houyang" binary star from Taiwan Province Province shines in the world. Now that the Sri Lankan has passed away, Hou Xiaoxian still stops this award in Cannes.

The biggest surprise of this year's competition unit is Nie Yinniang the Assassin by Hou Xiaoxian, which won the highest score of this competition unit film with a score of 3.5 in Screen magazine, while Nie Yinniang the Assassin also topped the comprehensive score ranking of seven competition unit films based on American, French, German and Arab media, and it is the most popular film in this competition unit. Hou Xiaoxian has been preparing for Nie Yinniang the Assassin for more than ten years. This film is his first feature film after The Red Balloon in 2007, and it is also the most anticipated art film in China this year. This film set Hou Xiaoxian's film cost record with an investment of 90 million yuan. When Hou Hsiao-hsien accepted the award, he said that it was not easy to make movies, especially it was not easy to find so much money to make Nie Yinniang.

When talking about whether the cultural differences between China and the West will affect the understanding of movies, Hou Xiaoxian said that when culture reaches a deeper level, it is all about people's existence and life. After a long period of accumulation, it will become a culture that every country and place should understand. The difference of any culture is because the longer time goes by, people will have their own characteristics of life, which can be seen or described when they are shaped, which is common to all. Movies made in any corner of the world can be understood by the whole world as long as they are about people.

For failing to win the Palme d 'Or, Hou Xiaoxian said that the most important thing is what you did and what you filmed. If you understand this, you won't care about winning the prize. "I have done it myself, I know best. I have been here for so long, and my films have participated in competitions in many places. If a real creator thinks about the game, it's over. " He mentioned the comments in the French newspaper Liberation, saying, "If the film doesn't win the prize, the jury will be killed with torches." He thought these comments were enough.

As to why Nie Yinniang was released many years later, Hou Hsiao-hsien said that he was busy with the Golden Horse Award and Golden Horse Film Festival in 1978, and he was also the chairman for a long time.

China media feel aggrieved for Hou Xiaoxian: tang style lost its ancient rhyme to immigrant gangs.

After the award ceremony, China reporter felt sorry for Hou Xiaoxian's failure to win the grand prize. Although Jacques Audiard is a first-class French director who is good at making stylized genre films, and won the Cannes Jury Award for The Prophet, The Wandering Pandit is not the strongest film in his directing career, and it also lags behind Nie Yinniang the Assassin by a full point (2.5 points) this year. The film tells the story of a Tamil tiger who sneaked into France and wanted to live a normal life, but he was still involved in the local gang struggle. The two elements, Immigration and Gangster, are not only the criticism of realism, but also the bizarre plot of genre films. The overall completion rate is ahead in this competition film, but it is not as good as Audiat's strongest works, The Forgotten Rhythm of My Heart and The Prophet. In particular, the film has always maintained a tense rhythm, telling a dark story, but when the hero killed a lot of gangsters, the final outcome turned out to be a happy life with his wife and children, which made people feel abrupt and did not conform to the overall artistic style. Jacques Odyard's explanation is that he hopes that the film will bring hope in the end, which is actually not very convincing.

It can be said that the judges, who are mainly from European and American departments, certainly have a full understanding of The Wandering Pandi, but it is not easy to feel "unclear" in such a short time in the face of Nie Yinniang the Assassin, a masterpiece with both stylistic and cultural characteristics.

Foreign media spoke highly of Blanchett's Son of Saul, which was questioned after she didn't win the film.

Foreign journalists are mainly indignant about The Son of Saul, which won the jury prize. They think the film is more like the Palme d 'Or award in its stylized presentation, but perhaps it still takes into account the award-winning debut and Cohen's partial controversy over his Jewish identity. Saul's son didn't work miracles here.

Another huge controversy comes from the bundled movie part. The winner predicted by the original media should be Cate Blanchett in Carol, or even Rooney Mara, because they played a pair of homosexuals in the film very delicately. However, only Rooney Mara won the prize, and emmanuelle bercot, the heroine of another French film The King, tied for it. Beckett is also the director of this year's opening film "Hold your head high", which is questioned as the weakest opening film in recent years. Now, because Rooney Mara was not present, only the director Todd Haynes took the lead, and Beckett took the stage alone to receive the award. The applause given to her was obviously not as good as that given to the best actor vincent lindon.

French films were shortlisted for five awards and won three awards, which triggered the dispute of "related households"

Since the release of the film list, the film selection of Cannes competition unit this year has been questioned. On the one hand, Abichapon, Naomi Kawase, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Mendoza, celebrities who are enough to enter the main competition unit, are all "downgraded" to "concerned" units. After the film appeared, it was obvious that the quality was not worse than that of most competition unit films. The performance of several new contestants in the competition unit is not really qualified, and even some famous directors who have been shortlisted for the competition unit have produced mediocre works.

But this year, five French films were shortlisted in the main competition unit, and the overall evaluation was very general. Apart from The Wandering Pandit and Stéphane Brizé's The Law of the Market, Ma? Wenn's My King, Guillaume Nicole's The Valley of Love and Valérie Donzelli's Margaret and Julian were all shortlisted by the media, and most of them came from Cannes. In the end, the French won the Palme d 'Or Award and the Actor and Actress Award. This year's achievement is also considered as a kind of compensation for last year's failure of French films to win prizes in the Cannes competition unit.