Poster for the 71st Venice Film Festival
On the afternoon of July 24, Beijing time, the 71st Venice Film Festival announced the list of films in the main competition unit. Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai was shortlisted with his new film "Interloper", becoming the only Chinese-language film to be shortlisted. These include German director Feith Akin's new film "Cut", American director Joshua Oppenheimer's "Silent Look", Roy Anderson's "Cold Branches" and so on.
Meanwhile, American director David Gordon Green, after conquering Watertown last year with "Killer Joe," was shortlisted this year with a new film, "The Broken Corner," which tells the story of a lone locksmith living in a small Texas town. William Dafoe, who played the killer in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" earlier this year, is also shortlisted for a new film this year, and veteran American director Abel Ferrara's biographical film Pasolini plays the most controversial Italian director and writer. The film itself tells the story of his last day before his death.
"The Intruder" was shortlisted to tell the story of an old lady and a strange teenager
Wang Xiaoshuai's movie "Intruder" as the only film shortlisted for the main competition, the story takes place in Guiyang, telling a retired old lady who originally lived a normal life, suddenly a strange teenager came to the family, the child broke the rhythm of the old lady's life, and the life of this teenager also involved the old lady into a huge suspense. The film focuses on the suspense genre, and the old lady is played by actor Lu Zhong. In addition, the film also brings together Qin Hao, Qin Hailu, Feng Yuanzheng and other powerful actors.
Main Competition Unit Finalists:
Birdman
Directed by Alejandro González I?árritu
Genre: Comedy
Country: United States
Synopsis: The film tells the story of a former actor (Michael Keaton) who once played a superhero who hopes to save his career by starring in a stage play, but the arrogant male protagonist who works with him threatens to destroy everything. Emma will play the daughter of the late actress, who is also troubled and has just come out of the rehab and later becomes her father's assistant.
The Interloper
Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
Genre: Drama/Suspense
Country: China
Plot: The heroine Lao Deng (played by Lü Zhong) responds to the call of the state in her youth, comes to Guiyang with full of enthusiasm and blood to support construction, sweats on this land, dedicates the most beautiful youth, and writes a tortuous and moving girl's heart in the picturesque scenery of Guiyang, freezing the beautiful time about ideals and emotions, but also leaving irreparable regrets and regrets.
After leaving Guiyang for many years, when the passion of youth gradually faded, Old Deng and his two sons returned to a happy and peaceful ordinary life. However, a series of unexpected people and events broke the calm of the old Deng family: the silent calls that rang out from time to time in the home, the strange teenagers who repeatedly "happened" to meet and make old Deng feel familiar, the unsolvable murder mystery in the community, it seems that there will be a storm that will be turning over the clouds and rain on Old Deng and her family...
The sudden changes in life made Old Deng feel lost, stringing together a series of bizarre events that happened in front of her, and the memories of youth in Guiyang gradually appeared clearly in front of her eyes. In order to find answers, but also for the beauty and regret that could not be put down, even if it caused confusion and misunderstanding between the two sons, Old Deng still embarked on a journey to Guiyang and returned to this pure land in his heart.
In Guiyang, in the process of revisiting the old place with an old friend who has not been seen for many years, the search for the answer seems to have become no longer important, what is important is that old Deng finally reached a reconciliation with his youthful self and was redeemed, and with the final mystery revealed, the two sons more appreciated the meaning of life and understood Old Deng as a "mother".
Portrait of Silence
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Genre: Documentary
Plot: This film is the only documentary in the main competition unit of venice this year. The film's executive producers are the well-known Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Of course, Joshua Oppenheimer is also a cattle man, and last year's documentary "The Killing Act" became a sensation around the world, winning the 48th National Film Critics Association Awards and the 26th European Film Awards for Best Documentary. "The Silent Look" continues to tell the story of India, where the film focuses on the misfortunes of a family who survived the Indonesian massacre and tracked down the slaughterers. This film may once again cause controversy in the style of "Killing Interpretation" and become the topic film of this year's Venice.
《Kane Sakushi》
Director: Roy Andesson
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Country: Sweden / Germany / Denmark / France
Plot: The title of the film comes from the famous work "Snow Hunters" by the great Dutch painter Bruegel Sr., which depicts a group of hunters returning from hunting, with several black birds parked on the branches above the picture.
Far From Men
Director: David Oelhoffen
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Plot: In 1954, when the forces of rebellion grow in the valley, two men desperately flee between the Algerian mountains. In the harsh winter, Daru, a teacher who lives alone, must send the boy Mohanmed accused of murder to the French authorities. Targeted by vengeful cavalry and residents, the two had to fight for their freedom. The film was inspired by camus's short story The Visitor in Exile and Kingdom published in 1957.
The Postman's White Night
Director: Andrey Koncharovsky
Country: Russia
The story takes place in a remote Russian village where the only way to land is to take a boat across the lake, and the postman is the only way to connect with the outside world. Although the process of modernization has changed the lives of most people, the way of life of the people in this village is still stuck in the Neolithic era. The postman's beloved woman, escaped from the village and ran to live in the big city. The postman's engine was stolen "coincidentally", leaving him unable to get out of the village – his life was completely disrupted. The script of this film is based on real people and real events, and the real villagers contribute to the original nature of the performance in this film, and professional actors have gone deep into the village to experience life for a year in order to make this movie.
"Good Intention Killing"
Directed by: Andrew Niccol
Type: Thriller
Plot: "GoodWill Killing" is a modern military film in which Nicole's old partner Ethan Hawke plays a fighter pilot who, although he is a combat elite, in everyday life, he is a stay-at-home man with a sense of responsibility for his family. He gradually became suspicious of his work, but the reality could not be changed.
Three Hearts
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Genre: Drama/Romance
Plot: Born in 1947, Benoy-Jacques is a powerful director with strong creative vitality in France, who has served as an assistant director of classic works such as "Hiroshima Love" and "Lover", from 1974 to the present, he has participated in the production of more than 30 films, and has served as the main competition unit judge of the Cannes International Film Festival, representative works such as "Tosca" and "Duras on Duras". Jacques has been shortlisted for the main competition section of the three major A-category film festivals, but is most familiar with the "Venetian circle" - "Seventh Heaven" in 1997, "No Scandal" in 1999 and "Untouchable" in 2006, and has competed for the Golden Lion three times. Benois-Jacques's last work, "Goodbye, My Queen," was featured as the opening film at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Listed by French film critics as one of the six most anticipated local literary films of the year, Benoy-Jacques is a director who is very good at grasping women's films, and "Three Hearts" is his work of "showing" the ambitions of women of different ages, telling the collision of a group of women in love and choosing republican life experiences. The film's star cast is quite strong, and Cannes film queen Charlotte Gansbo, who has starred in "The Antichrist" and "Female Addict", will work with French national treasure actress and Venetian film queen Catherine Deneuve to perform an exceptionally moving female epic.
The Price of Glory
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Country: France / Belgium / Switzerland
Plot: The pattern of "The Price of Glory" is not large, revolving around the relationship between two men, and the male protagonist meets his old buddies after he is released from prison. Everyone is having a bad time, and they not only have to deal with marital problems, but also have to raise children. The film brings together a group of powerful French stars, and the film style will be biased towards life.
"Youth Shaohua"
Directed by Mario Martone
Type: Biography/History
Country: Italy
Plot: The film's director, Marino Matone, has been a frequent visitor to the Venice Film Festival for many years, winning the Venice Film Festival Jury Special Prize in 1992 for Morte di un matematiconapoletano (The Death of a Mathematician in Naples), followed by two Golden Lions in 1994 and 1997. Marino-Matone is a typical director who has not been popular with international film festivals, and his position in the local area is also quite embarrassing, 2010's "We Believe" once again failed in Venice, and this year's "Youth Shaohua" is his fifth landing in the water city, and whether it can be obtained is certainly worth looking forward to.
Cut
Directed by Faith Akin
Countries: Germany / France / Poland / Turkey / Canada / Italy
Plot: The famous Turkish director Feith Akin, one of the famous faces in the field of European literary films in recent years, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009's "Kitchen of the Mind". Fiss-Akin's highest achievement was born in 2004 – "Moving Forward" won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival and the International Film Critics' Fibisi Award. "Crossing the Bridge" and "On the Other Side of Life" are also his masterpieces, which not only reached the main competition section of the Cannes International Film Festival, but also won the Best Screenplay Award. In 2008, he and many famous european and American directors jointly created the short film collection "New York, I Love You". "Incision" is Akin's second time shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival.
Fiss-Akin's "Cut" was invited to participate in this year's Cannes Film Festival, but Akin declined the invitation for "personal reasons", and after four months, he chose the Venice Film Festival. The film doesn't reveal too many details, but Akin claimed early in the filming that it was a subversive film with both the humor of Chaplin's films and the texture of Sergio Leone's classic Western films, and the film was expected to bring a new experience to the judges and audiences.
Plains Wildfire
Director: Tsuneya Tsukamoto
Genre: Drama/War
Nation: Japan
Plot: "Plain Wildfire" is a remake of "Wildfire" directed by Ichikawa Kun in 1959, the old version of the story takes place at the end of World War II, the Japanese army in various battlefields has shown a decline, the situation is particularly serious on the South Asian Island front. The first-class Soldier Tamura was ordered by the Cobia to receive treatment for pneumonia, and although he desperately wanted to return to the army, the Japanese army at this time was short of resources and exhausted, and Tamura, who had no combat effectiveness, had become a burden to the army. Shortly after returning to the hospital, the hospital was also shelled. Tamura and the wounded soldiers Yasuda and Nagamatsu fled all the way, and in the absence of water and salt, Yasuda and others collected tobacco leaves along the road in exchange for supplies, Tamura killed locals to grab salt, and Nagamatsu even staged a tragedy of cannibalism in order to survive. Against the backdrop of war, humanity has been completely lost... Based on the original novel by Shohei Ooka, the film won the 1960 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography and Best Director, the 1960 Film Shunbun Best Actor and Best Screenplay Award, and the 1960 Mainichi Film Best Actor Award. The new version of the story is much the same as the old version, but the display of the war scenes is even more shocking, and the director himself participated in the performance of the film.
Pasolini
Director: Abel Ferrara
Genre: Drama / Same Sex / Biography
Country: Belgium / Italy / France
Plot: In "Pasolini", Ferrara once again invited the male protagonist of "The Last Day of the Earth" - William Dafoe, a character star who had played the "Old Green Devil", as the male number one, it is worth saying that Dafoe and Pasolini look exactly like each other, and the screen effect is very amazing. The film focuses on the last days of Italian director Pasolini's death in 1975. In the late 1950s, Pasolini wrote the poetry collection The Embers of Gramsci and the novel Violent Life, and then devoted his main energy to film, making films such as "Oedipus The King", "Medea", "Decameron" and "120 Days of Sodom", where he was brutally trampled by a car after being beaten in Rome. Dafoe is a strong contender for this year's Venice Film Emperor.
The Broken Corner
Directed by David Gordon Green
Plot: "Manghorn" is a work with a relatively heavy theme. Pacino plays the old man "Manghorn", who lives alone in a small town. His life is very monotonous, spending time with his cat every day, eating at the same restaurant every day, and going to talk to the bank teller every Friday. However, such a life of immutableness did not completely obscure Manghorn's past. Manghorn is a man with a criminal record, and 40 years ago, in order to make a big deal, he did not hesitate to abandon his lover. He has been trying to break free from the nightmare of the past for many years, but all his efforts have not had a significant effect, and in essence, Manghorn still needs to face the dark past and solve the big problems of life.
Al-Pacino, who won the Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the 51st Venice Film Festival in 1994, went to Venice this year, apparently to compete for the film emperor. The heroine of this film, Holly Hunter, has won the Cannes film queen and Oscar queen laureate for "Piano Lesson". The meeting of these two actors will be the biggest highlight of "Manghorn".
The Hungry Heart
Director: Saverio Kestanzo
Plot: Savirio Costanza from Italy, is a newcomer to the film industry, but this does not mean that his ability to control the plot is weak, in 2010, his "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers" brought together a large number of powerful actors, strongly supporting the entire film, of which Isabella Rossellini received the most attention, the film entered the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival that year, and Savirio Kestanzo was nominated for the best director at the 55th Italian David Awards. "Hungry Heart", Kestanzo's second time competing for the Golden Lion Award, tells the story of a couple who come to New York, USA, and their relationship has a serious crisis of trust and faces a life-and-death test. The film's lead actor, Adam Drever, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Primetime Emmy Award for Comedy for two consecutive years in 2013 and 2014.
"Story"
Director: Lozanne-Benedima Rakhshan Bani Etemad
Country: Iran
Born in 1954, Losan-Bannitima is a female leader in Iranian cinema. 30 years ago, Lowsanne had already entered the film industry, but her work at that time did not receive much praise, and 1992's "Sad Nagus" was an important work for her to show her talents, and her work began to pay attention to the family ethics of Iranian society, "Blue Veil", which tells the story of a working girl and an older man who has an affair, won the Locarno Film Festival Award. "Our Time" depicts the experience of a civilian woman as a presidential candidate. Lozanne-Bannitima is a very remarkable woman, because in Islamic countries, women are unable to show their faces, female filmmakers are extremely rare, and Bannitima's presence is influence. The Story is Benedima's first competition for the Venice Golden Lion.
99 Homes
Director: Ramin Bahrani
In I Want to Have a Home, Andrew Garfield plays the male protagonist Dennis Nash, whose house was taken back by the government due to foreclosure and who was forced homeless with his mother and son. It turns out that Mike Cavill, a real estate agent who works for the bank, manipulates all of this, and in order to regain his home, Dennis agrees to work for Mike — a deal with the devil that leads him step by step to the heart of the depraved real estate market. The characters of the film are extremely complex, and in the incredible circle of human survival, everyone cannot get rid of the shadow behind themselves. Garfield has plenty of room to play in this film, and the two powerful stars Laura Dunn and Michael Shannon also have wonderful performances.
Black Soul
Directed by: Francesco Munzi
Plot: Italian director Francisco Muniz, due to the advantage of hosting, entered the competition unit of this Venice Film Festival. Francesco-Muniz has not had a well-known work before, and Black Souls tells the story of an unforgettable journey of three brothers who travel from Milan and North America back to the southern Italian port city of Calabria in order to solve the problem of family evil.
Sivas
Directed by: Kaan Mujdeci
Country: Turkey
Plot: The director of this film, Kaan Mujdeci, is an unknown rookie in the Turkish film industry, this film is his directorial debut, and the shortlisting for the competition unit shows the courage of Venice to encourage newcomers.
"The Last Chance"
Director: D'Alix Delaporte
Plot: French female director Alex de la Porter, who spent her early years as a camera reporter for CAPA News, mainly responsible for Canal+ TV's programs. Because she participated in the filming of the documentary "Like a Dream", she became interested in film and decided to go to la FEMIS Film School to study screenwriting and start directing short films. In 2006, Alex De la Porter's "How to Slow Down the Mountain" won the Silver Lion Award for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival, and has since had the opportunity to shoot feature films. In 2010, De Laporte directed his first feature film, Angel and Tony, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Venice Film Festival International Film Critics Week section. The Last Hammer is De la Porter's first entry into the main Venetian competition section.
"Funeral Coffin"
Director: Xin Yukun
Country: Chinese mainland
Plot: "Funeral Coffin" tells the story of a young man who wants to break free from his patriarchy and kills a leper from the same village in a dispute, and is forced to flee, just when he wants to return to the village to turn himself in, he finds that the case has been closed; however, the matter is not over, the dramatic events begin to occur one by one, and everyone is deeper and deeper in the whirlpool of fate.
"Noise and Commotion"
Plot: "Hustle and Turmoil" is adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous American writer William Faulkner, starring Franco and Joe Hamm and other actors.
The film was also highly praised by industry insiders: "James Franco's new film, which will be screened at this year's Venice Film Festival, has also had extraordinary significance in Franco's career and is a successful initiative." Franco boldly adapted this classic masterpiece, reflecting his courage and self-confidence, and expounding the main story line clearly. From this we can see that Franco has a great interest and passion for the field of art, and he is very talented in this regard. ”
"She's Just So Funny"
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
The married Broadway director falls in love with a prostitute-turned-actress and job, helping her advance her career.
"Dear"
Director: Chen Kexin
Genre: Drama/Family
Country: Chinese mainland/ Hong Kong
Plot: Tian Wenjun and his wife Lu Xiaojuan's marriage broke down, and his son Tian Peng was the only one involved in the two. One day, Tian Peng went out to play and never returned. On the way to find their children, Tian Wenjun and his wife accidentally met a group of parents who also lost their children. Everyone supported each other and comforted each other, never letting go of a clue of hope. Years later, a seemingly reliable clue came again, prompting Tian Wenjun and others to trek thousands of miles through the prefecture and province, and finally saw a figure like a son in a remote village. Behind the child, there stood Li Hongqin, a rural woman who shouted "Mother". Can a lost loved one be found? Can a broken home really break the mirror and come back to life? Behind the search for a son, a storm of family affection is sweeping in.
Burying Old Love
Director: Joe Dante
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Plot: Starring Alexandra Dadario / Ashley Greeney / Anton Yeltsin / Oliver Cooper / Isabel Dresden and others.
The Golden Age
Director: Xu Anhua
Genre: Drama / Romance / Biography
Plot: In China in the 1920s and 1940s, it was an era of people's morale and wide sea and sky, a group of young people experienced a period of laissez-faire, freely pursuing dreams and love, some people were seeking love in exile, and some people were looking forward to the future of their homeland in the struggle... Xiao Hong, a maverick woman, went into exile all the way, from the north to the south, from Harbin to Hong Kong, while escaping the war, while experiencing a lamentable and heart-wrenching love and life. The strong struggle against death penetrates the back of the paper under her pen, and so does her life.
《Makeup》
Director: Lim Kwon Taek
Country: South Korea
Plot: The film tells the story of a middle-aged man sandwiched between two women with two different themes of "makeup" and "cremation", adapted from the original novel by Kim Hoon writer in 2004, starring actor An Shengji.
The Old Man of Belém
Director: Manuel de Oliveira
Type: Short Film
Country: Portugal / France
Plot: Portuguese film director, actor, producer, born in Porto to a bourgeois family. Oliveira loved movies as a young man, and in the 1920s he attended the Film Actors School founded by Italian director Reno Lupp in Porto. In 1928, Oliveira made his debut on the screen, playing a role in the film The Magical Fatima. Oliveira's first film in 1931 was the documentary Toil on the Doro River, in which it can be seen that his artistic style was influenced by French avant-garde and Soviet documentary films. The film successfully recreates the customs and customs of the douro river that runs across the city of Porto, and Oliveira uses his editing talents to add a lot of attention to the film. On September 21, 1931, when the film was released at the Central Cinema in Lisbon, it caused a sensation and Oliveira became famous. In 1942, Oliveira directed the feature film Aniki Bobo, which successfully recreated the inner world of the protagonist in a unique documentary style. The film received an honorary certificate at the International Youth Productions Screening at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1961. In the 1950s, Oliveira worked as a producer to produce a number of films. In the 1960s, he returned to film and made a number of films, among which "Now and Then", "Bernard" and "Lost Love" have been called "the trilogy of unloved love" by critics. Oliveira has long been active in the Portuguese film industry, supporting the reform movement of the Portuguese film industry, and his films have a strong local atmosphere, and he has a deep understanding of the use of sets and picture composition.
The Hill of Freedom
Director: Hong Shangxiu
Plot: The film tells the story of a Japanese man looking for love in Seoul, South Korea, and Ryo Kase plays an infatuated man Who falls in love with a Korean woman who is older than him and chases after The infatuated man Who goes after South Korea for love.
On the public poster, a sentence "This street, I come and go." Love also comes and goes here. With a slightly sad tone, coupled with Ryo Kase standing alone in the rain watching over love, the wandering and dazed posture is more prominent in the ice and rain. Director Hong Shangxiu, who is good at creating love stories between men and women through a unique perspective, will interpret this bitter cross-border love from what shooting perspective, which is really exciting.
Dialogue with the Gods
Director: Emile Kusturica, etc
Country: Mexico
Plot: The film consists of seven short films directed by different directors and tells seven stories about faith.