At noon on April 11, local time, the 77th Cannes Film Festival released the first round of film lists, and the shortlisted films were announced in many units such as the main competition, a kind of attention, non-competition screening, premiere, midnight screening, and special screening.
This year's Chinese-language films have attracted much attention, Jia Zhangke's "Merry Generation" was shortlisted for the "Main Competition Unit", Guan Hu's "Dog Formation" was shortlisted for the "Un Certain Regard Unit", Chen Kexin's "Sauce Garden Lane" will hold a "Special Screening", and Hong Kong's Zheng Baorui's new work "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" was shortlisted for the "Midnight Screening Unit". It is reported that the film list of the Director's Fortnight, Film Critics' Week and other units will be announced in the future.
"Merry Generation" was shortlisted for the "Main Competition", and Jia Zhangke was shortlisted for the sixth time
The story of "Merry Generation" is set in the first 21 years of this century, with the separation and integration of lovers Qiaoqiao and Guo Bin in a small town in northern China as the main line, telling the life stories of them and all kinds of grassroots people around them in the first 20 years of the new century, depicting the indomitable enterprising spirit of a generation in the context of social change, and depicting the life of a generation.
Judging from the current officially announced lineup, it is still Zhao Tao's big heroine, and other actors who are more familiar to everyone include Zhou You, Renke, etc.
Jia Zhangke is a frequent visitor to the Cannes Film Festival, and "Merry Generation" is Jia Zhangke's sixth work shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival after "Ren Yao", "Tale of Twenty-four Cities", "Heaven is Destined", "Mountains and Rivers" and "Children of Jianghu".
After "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" in 2018, Jia Zhangke only made a documentary feature film "Swimming Until the Sea Turns Blue", which was also shortlisted for a special screening at the Berlin Film Festival.
After the news of the finalist of "The Merry Generation" came out this afternoon, many fans sent their blessings, in addition to the good results of "The Merry Generation", I also hope that Zhao Tao can fulfill his long-cherished wish and successfully win the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Guan Hu's "Dog Formation" was shortlisted for "A Kind of Attention", starring Peng Yuyan and others
Last year, the Chinese-language films "Mistake by the River" and "Burning Winter", two films that attracted much attention, were shortlisted for the "Un Certain Regard" unit. The lineup of "Dog Formation" directed by Guan Hu is also very strong, starring Peng Yuyan, Tong Liya, Zhang Yi, etc. It was previously announced that it would be released in 2024.
"Dog Formation" tells the story of a small town in the northwest more than ten years ago. Jiro, who has been adrift for ten years, returns to his homeland and prepares to spend the rest of his life with a cynical philosophy of survival. In order to make a living, under the introduction of his old friend Nie Shili, Erlang joined the folk dog fighting team to haul stray dogs all day long. A stray dog named hemp rope broke into his life, this stray dog has wolf blood, and its courage to fight for survival moved Jiro, and the two sympathetic souls gradually developed feelings. Jiro's compassion for life was slowly awakened, and the blood and courage that had been deliberately suppressed began to return, in order to save more stray dogs, and for the salvation of his soul, he took active action.
Zhan Zhou's debut played by Zhang Ziyi in "Sauce Garden Lane".
"Sauce Garden Lane" directed by Chen Kexin, which appeared as a screening film, released a poster today, in which Zhan Zhou's role played by Zhang Ziyi made his debut, which is also the first actor officially announced in the film.
The production of the film spanned seven years, adapted from one of the four strange cases of the Republic of China, "The Case of Killing the Husband in the Sauce Garden", the lens focuses on the times and personal destiny, showing the true colors of human nature under the treacherous clouds, the truth of the murder of the husband is different, and the picture scroll of all beings slowly unfolds.
It is reported that when the organizing committee of the Cannes Film Festival announced the film list, it specifically mentioned Zhang Ziyi's name and said that "China's most powerful actress Zhang Ziyi is back in Cannes", Zhang Ziyi once held a master class in Cannes.
"The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" has been set for May Day
Zheng Baorui's "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City", which was shortlisted for the "Midnight Screening" unit, is scheduled to be officially released in China on May 1.
The film is adapted from Yu Er's original hot-blooded fighting novel "Kowloon Walled City", which tells the story of the 80s of the last century, in the Kowloon Walled City in the "Three Regardless" zone, the underworld forces are intricately entrenched, and the social order is chaotic.
According to media reports, there are also Chinese films that may be shortlisted in units such as Director's Fortnight, Film Critics' Week, and Short Film Competition, and Lou Ye's latest documentary, which was rumored to be shortlisted for the main competition, was not announced today, I don't know if it will participate in the later re-recording link, if it can be re-recorded, it will be very rare for two Chinese films to be shortlisted for the main competition unit in Cannes this year.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
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