This year's Cannes Film Festival, one of the biggest concerns for domestic film fans and passers-by netizens, may be how Tang Wei will perform in Park Chan-wook's new work "The Determination to Break Up", and whether he can win the Cannes Film Queen with this film.
/ The official poster of "The Determination to Break Up"
I think it's a good thing to talk about. Of course, we have not yet seen this film, and for the time being, we can only imagine the character played by Tang Wei and her performance space through the plot synopsis, trailer and sporadic interviews of the creator.
/ Trailer clip from "The Determination to Break Up"
At that time, Gyro Movie will bring you frontline movie feedback at the first time, "The Determination to Break Up" will hold its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday night, May 23, Beijing time, you can pay attention to our public account and Weibo @ Gyro's toroscope, Douban @ Gyro Movie. But today I can comb through with you more, if Tang Wei wants to take this year's Cannes film queen, what possible strong opponents will he encounter? And whether there is some kind of law to follow in the past decade after cannes.
First, about "The Determination to Break Up"
The current official plot description is this: Hae-joon (Park Hae-il), who investigates a murder in the mountains, meets the deceased's wife, Seo-rae (Tang Wei). "I was worried he hadn't come back from the mountains and thought he might end up dying." Ms. Xu showed no signs of agitation about her husband's death, and her behavior was very different from that of her grieving relatives, who police believed she was the suspect. When Hae Joon interrogates and spies on Seo Lai, he realizes that he is gradually becoming interested in her. Meanwhile, despite being charged with a crime, Xu Lai begins to take bold action against Hae Joon. A suspect who conceals the truth. Detectives who also want to suspect suspects. They had the decision to break up.
/ Stills from "The Determination to Break Up"
The combination of a detective and a dangerous mysterious woman is easily reminiscent of film noir elements, and if judged from this point alone, it is easy to guess that this will be a big male protagonist's play, and Tang Wei's role may be a supporting role.
/ Trailer clip from "The Determination to Break Up"
But this sentence in the official synopsis is important: "At the same time, despite being charged with a crime, Xu Lai began to take bold action against Hae Joon. Obviously, Tang Wei's role will have a more active narrative perspective than the snake and scorpion girl in the traditional film noir, and with the trailer, we can roughly guess that park hae-il and Tang Wei's role may be equal, and even I guess that the first half of the film is Park Hae-il's perspective, leading everyone into the layers of fog of the case, and the second half of the narrative perspective may be reversed to Tang Wei, just like the narrative perspective in "Miss". In addition, in all the materials and trailers, Tang Wei's name appears before Park Hae-il. We have reason to believe that Tang Wei's role will be more than we expected.
/ Trailer clip from "The Determination to Break Up"
Don't forget, in Park Chan-wook's works, the female perspective dominates many times, whether it is the drama "Female Drummer", the remake of Hitchcock's "Stoke", or "Miss" and "Gracious Gold".
/ Posters for "Female Drummer", "Stoke", "Miss"
It is also worth mentioning that Zheng Ruijing, the screenwriter of "The Determination to Break Up", revealed in the Korean program that the film had finalized Tang Wei before the script was completed, and she even said: "If it were not for Tang Wei's performance, I would not have been able to write this love film... After writing the script, I woke up, what if Tang Wei didn't act? "It can be said that it is a script tailored for Tang Wei. Therefore, in summary, judging only from the film's current information and clues, Tang Wei will have enough room to play in "The Determination to Break Up". This is good news. But at the same time, Park Chan-wook's works have always given people the feeling that "director is greater than everything".
/ Director Park Chan-wook
"The Determination to Break Up" is the eleventh feature film by South Korean director Park Chan-wook, and it is also his fourth time to be selected for the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. The previous three were in 2004 for "Old Boys" and won the Jury Prize, in 2009 for "The Bat" and for the Jury Prize, and in 2016 for Miss but did not win. None of Park Chan-wook's three major european film festivals won the acting awards at these film festivals, although Song Kang-ho, Kim Min-hee, Lee Young-ae and others all gave amazing performances.
/ Stills from Old Boys
This may be because in Park Chan-wook's work, his personal skills and style as a director overshadow everything else, so even if the actors in his films perform well, what may ultimately be remembered and discussed is Director Park Chan-wook's amazing and dazzling scheduling ability and personal style.
/ Stills from "The Bat"
In addition, "The Determination to Break Up" will premiere on may 23 the same day as Cronenberg's "Future Crimes", and it will premiere before "Future Crimes". Everyone knows that "Future Crimes" may be the most "explosive" work in this year's Cannes, when the feedback and discussion after the premiere of the film will be fancy (refer to last year's "Titanium"). So unless "Determination to Break Up" is more "explosive", it is easy to be overshadowed by the limelight and heat of "Future Crimes". Not to mention, Futurama has a potential post-film rival: Leia Saidu.
/ Stills from Futuristic Crimes, "Little K" and Leia Saidu
Second, what is the most promising film queen candidate in this year's Cannes main competition?
Like "The Determination to Break Up", so far we can only judge from the plot summary and materials, which of the 21 main competitions the actresses of which films will have the potential to compete after the film. First of all, let's take a look at the big female protagonist (meaning that there is no male protagonist, only male support). Iranian-American director Ali Abasi's second feature-length film,"Holy Spider," tells the story of a female journalist who goes deep into Mashhad, Iran's holiest city, to track down and investigate serial killers who brutalize female sex workers in the name of "purging street crimes," but as the death toll rises and the truth approaches, the reporter finds that the entire society has begun to worship "spider killers" as heroes, which makes her chances of pursuing justice slim.
/ Stills from "Holy Spider"
Playing the journalist is Iranian actress Zara Amir Abrahimi, a relatively new actor face. Director Abbasi said he didn't want to make a detective story about serial killers, but about the oppression and discrimination against women in Iranian society as a whole. So it's a story of a woman fighting against society as a whole. Interestingly, another Iranian film in this year's main competition is also a big female lead. Iranian director Rustayi's second feature-length film, Lyra's Brothers, was one of the longest-running films in this competition, reaching 165 minutes.
/ Stills from "Lyra's Brothers"
The film tells the story of 40-year-old Lyra who has been caring for her parents and her four younger brothers all her life, but the whole family is crushed by debt, and Lyra has to come up with a business plan to save the family, and just when she is in desperate need of funds, she discovers that one of the younger brothers has secretly hidden an heirloom through which the younger brother hopes to become the patriarch of the family, a secret that may lead the entire family to ruin. From the plot summary, it seems that it is also a work that pays attention to the survival of women in Iranian society, and this kind of Iranian family circus cannot but remind people of Farhati's work.
It should be known that Farhati is a member of the jury of this year's Cannes main competition, of course, it is worth mentioning that the actress Tarane Aridosti, who played Lyra, was once The royal actress of Farhati, and he cooperated with "About Eli", "Fireworks Wednesday", "Beautiful City" and "Salesman", which won the Oscar for best foreign language film.
/ Stills from "About Eli"
American director Lei carter's new work "Good Drama Debut" is more mysterious, and at present we only know that the film starring Michelle Williams is about a sculptor trying to balance his work with family and friends to bring about a horse grab. Officially, it was a "comedy" film about art and craftsmanship.
/ Stills from "The Good Drama Debuts"
If we look back at Leikat's work, as a female director, she has an extremely keen and delicate sense of touching the portrayal of female characters, and Michelle Williams, who has collaborated with her on Mick's Shortcut, Wendy and Lucy, and Some Kind of Woman, has given impressive performances. Moreover, Leikat's directing style is like a bone sponge palm, not like the audiovisual stimulation of Park Chan-wook, which is actually easier for the actor to perform.
/ Director Kelly Lecat
Also a female director, Claire Denis returned to the main competition in Cannes after a gap of 34 years, bringing with her a spy film "The High Noon Star" that took place in Nicaragua. Denis' longest-running work tells the story of a female journalist who falls in love with a mysterious Englishman after being trapped in Nicaragua, but soon finds herself in greater danger.
/ Stills from "High Noon Star"
Actress Margaret Curry is a young American actress, who has mainly starred in some silly white and sweet girl roles in American dramas, and has also starred in "Tear Detective" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", but they are small supporting roles. She starred in "Literary Dreams of Workplace Psychology" that opened the Berlin Film Festival, and the result was a wave of bad reviews. Watching her interview before, she said that she faced a nervous breakdown when filming "High Noon Star", because denied's directing intensity and immersion in the role made her suffer a certain degree of psychological trauma. Denis is a director who is very good at digging into the limits of actors' performances, and her fascination with the body and its movements is a major hallmark element of her work. We can imagine that Denis chose Curry precisely because of her innocent appearance, and how Denis would let such an image be tormented by political crises in this work.
/ Director Claire Denis
Still from France, female director Leono Serhay was selected for the first time in the main competition section of Cannes with her second feature film, "A Younger Brother". The film tells the story of a mother who came to Paris from Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa with two sons, and in the next 20 years the family was formed and disintegrated.
/ Stills from "A Little Brother"
Sehay's first feature film, Young Woman, was also a big lead actress, winning the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival and nominating her for the César Award for Best Newcomer. Annabelle Lengronne, the female lead of the new work "A Brother", has starred in several French films, but it is still a new face, and this time to carry the big heroine who spans 20 years alone, the actors who play her two sons need to be played by two actors for different periods, and it is conceivable how much performance space this role will have.
/ Leono Sehay won the Golden Camera Award for Young Woman
In addition to these five big female protagonists, there are several post-film potential stocks worth mentioning, because the Cannes Film Festival sometimes does not necessarily give the big female protagonists (this we will sort out in the next part). As mentioned above in Cronenberg's "Future Crimes", it is said that the heroine Leia Saidu will have a jaw-dropping, scale-breaking performance in the film, and we also have a glimpse of her rather "evil" performance in the trailer.
/Stills from Future Crimes
But Leia Saidu has already won the Palme d'Or with "Adele's Life", which may be one of the reasons why she has never won the Cannes film queen, after all, how many actors can put a Palme d'Or engraved with their name in their homes? Russian director Serebrennikov's new work "Tchaikovsky's Wife" tells the story of Tchaikovsky marrying Antonina in order to dispel rumors, but because of this, he fell into the black hole of mental illness, so he decided to live separately from Antonina, but it caused Antonina to be devastated and eventually collapsed.
/ Stills from "Tchaikovsky's Wife"
According to the plot description, it is speculated that the actor Who plays the "same wife" Antonina, Alena Mikhailova, will have some room to play, but due to the current political situation and Serebrennikov's asylum status, if you want to praise this work, it is likely to praise the director. And the film will lead the premiere on the first day of the festival, which is not good news for the Impact Performance Awards. It is Kore-eda's "Broker" although there is Lee Chi-eun (IU), Pei Douna, but because it is more of a group drama, it is currently more difficult to judge, of course, if Lee Chi-eun can have the highlight moment when Sakura Ando was finally interrogated in "Thief Family", it is not impossible to win the film queen.
/ Stills from "The Broker"
French director Deplerchahn's new work, Brother and Sister, starring Marion Cotillard and Melville Perbo, tells the story of two brothers and sisters whose lives, which have not met for decades, eventually have to intersect due to the death of their father, and the narrative perspective switches back and forth between the two protagonists, and the role may be more evenly distributed between the two actors, similar to Emmanuel Dove and Matthew Amalek in "The King and the Queen". From the trailer, we can already see Cotillard's wonderful performance, and every time she has a work selected for the main competition in Cannes, she automatically becomes a big hit after the film, but she has never won it, the reason may be the same as Leia Saidu, the jury feels that since even the Oscar queen has taken it, the opportunity is still for new actors.
/ Stills from "Brothers and Sisters"
Finally, the Dane brothers' new work, Tory and The Lodge, tells the story of a boy and a teenage girl who flee from Africa to Belgium, and whose friendship is strengthened in an increasingly difficult living environment. This is the ninth time that the Dane brothers have been selected for the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, and with the exception of "Two Days and One Night" and "The Nameless Girl", every other selection has finally won the award.
/ Stills from Tory and The Lodge
It is worth mentioning that "Rosetta" won the film for Emily De Quinn, and "Son of others" won the film for Olivier Gulme. Because the Dane brothers' extremely realistic handheld style can highlight the performance of the actors, Joely Mbundu, who plays an African girl in the new work "Tory and The Lodge", also has the possibility of a film queen. Finally, to get this Cannes film queen, Tang Wei's film queen competitors from the subjective probability from high to low are:
"Laila's Brother" Tarane Aridosti "A Younger Brother" Annabelle Lengronne "Holy Spider" Zara Amir Abrahimi "Good Drama Debut" Michelle Williams "Brother and Sister" Marion Cotilla "Noon Star" Margaret Curry "Tory and The Lodge" Joely Mbundu "Tchaikovsky's Wife" Alena Mikhailova "Future Crimes" Leia Saidu "Broker" Lee Zhi En
Third, the analysis of the last eleven Cannes film queens
Since 2010, we have taken stock of the Cannes film queen from the perspective of "big data":
2010 Legal Copy by Juliet Binoche
2011 "Depression" Kerstin Dunster
2012 Beyond the Mountains by Cosmina Stratan
2012 Beyond the Mountains by Christina Froto
2013 "Past" Bergenis Bechaux
2014 Star Chart by Julianne Moore
2015 My King emmanuel Beckett
2015 Carol by Rooney Marla
2016 "Rosa Mama" Jacqueline Joss
2017 Out of Thin Air by Diane Kruger
2018 The Little Guy by Mel Yeslya Mova
2019 Little Joe Emily Beecham
2021 The Worst Man in the World, Renate Reinsf
In the past eleven Cannes Film Festivals, a total of 13 actors have finally won the film, including four British and American actors, three French actors, and one German actor, all of whom have different degrees of international popularity before winning the award; two of the remaining five actors have starred in the same film and won the award, that is to say, only four films have successfully won the queen laurels for unknown new-faced actors: "Beyond the Mountain", "Mother Rosa", "The Little Guy" and "The Worst Man in the World".
/ Samer Yesriamova won Best Actress at the 71st Cannes Film Festival for The Little One
Among the twelve works that won the Film Award, the real "big heroine" plays accounted for nine, and the remaining "Legal Copy" and "Carol" were equally divided at the starring level, and only Julianne Moore in "Star Map" won the film queen with supporting roles. That is to say, if it is an actor or a new face without international popularity, it is only possible to win the queen through the big female protagonist (the same is true for the film emperor). So films like the Dane Brothers' "Tory and Rochta" and Sherele's "Tchaikovsky's Wife" are less likely to win the film.
/ Stills from "Star Map"
In addition, from the perspective of the schedule of the Cannes Film Festival, counting the 12 films that won the Film Emperor Award, of the total of 24 works, only two films premiered before the first weekend, nine films premiered in the first weekend, seven films premiered between Monday and Thursday of the following week, and five films premiered on the last two days of the festival. And in the last five Cannes Film Festivals, there are four film queens or film emperors who have been born in the films that premiered in the last two days: the 2016 "Salesman" film emperor, the 2017 "Out of Thin Air" film queen + "You never been here" film emperor, the 2018 "Little Guy" film queen, and the 2021 "Netlam" film emperor.
/ Diane Kruger won the 70th Cannes Film Festival for "Out of Thin Air"
And of all the post-film candidates mentioned above, we know that "Tchaikovsky's Wife" premiered on the first day, Deplerschan's "Brother and Sister" premiered on the third day, "Determination to Break Up" and "Future Crimes" both premiered on the second Monday, "Lyra's Brother" premiered on the following Wednesday, Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Broker" premiered on the penultimate day, and "A Brother" premiered on the last day. From these data, as well as our analysis of the plot and materials above, we can get the following "unreliable" predictions about the season of Cannes (after all, even the movie has not been seen), in a list of possibilities from largest to smallest:
[First Echelon] Annabelle Lengronne "Good Drama Debut" Michelle Williams "Laila's Brother" Tarane Aridos "Midday Star" Margaret Curry "Holy Spider" Zara Amir Abrahimi [Second Echelon] "Brother and Sister" Marion Cotie "Determination to Break Up" Tang Wei "Future Crimes" Leia Saidu [Third Echelon] "Torre and Lochta" Joely Mbundu "Tchaikovsky's Wife" Alena Mikhailova "Broker" Lee Chi-eun
In fact, analyzing so much is also self-amusement, after all, even the movie has been seen, everyone should not be too real. And the quality of these films and the performance of the actors are the most important. Winning or not winning an award is a very random thing, especially for the rules of the cannes film festival, a small jury, the judges' personal preferences and ability to "tear the award" account for a large factor, is getting the Palme d'Or the best film of the year? Not necessarily. Of course, if Tang Wei can really get a Cannes film queen, it is naturally a thing that domestic film fans like to hear. Tang Wei as an actor is not an "all-round player", but often such an actor will explode with huge energy when encountering suitable themes and directors, and this energy we have seen a lot in Tang Wei's past film works. This year's Festival de Cannes will open next Tuesday, May 17, when Gyro Films will bring you the freshest reports, film reviews, interviews and gossip for the first time on the whole platform, don't miss it.
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