The annual word-of-mouth blockbuster film "Happy Lazzaro", which won the Best Screenplay of the Cannes Film Festival, has been exclusively launched on iQiyi Movies, which ranked among the top 1 European films with the highest rating in Douban in 2018, and its unique script and actor's acting skills have won unanimous praise from media and film critics at home and abroad, and have also triggered many film critics and audiences to discuss human nature. The film tells the story of Lazzaro, a young farmer with a simple heart, who after meeting the young aristocrat Don Credy, has changed his otherwise peaceful and cyclical life. The movie has been exclusively launched on iQiyi Movies on January 13, and movie lovers can get a glimpse of the word-of-mouth god's style.
Cannes' award-winning reputation exploded, and "Happy Lazaro" opened the mystery
Sir Film described it as "truly a good film of the year"; 24th Floor Films described it as "another milestone in European art cinema". Foreign Rotten Tomatoes network on the "Happy Lazzaro" evaluation is 90% freshness, domestic harsh Douban netizens will choose it as: the highest rated foreign movie TOP5 and the highest rated European film TOP1.
"Happy Lazzaro" has a douban score of 8.7 points, which can be said to be a typical "F-type good film" and a proper word-of-mouth masterpiece. On January 13, this magic allegorical film was broadcast exclusively on the iQIYI Film Literature and Art Theater Line to meet with everyone.
The story takes place in an isolated Italian feudal society, and the protagonist Lazzaro is a purely kind young man, and many villagers regard him as a fool. He and the Marquise's son became good friends, and the two found joy and kindness in this forgotten idyllic world, but the surroundings were still full of deception and lies, and when Lazzaro entered the metropolis alone, his innocence and kindness began his tragic fate...
Oil painting style trailer exposed, film film to create a "lost world"
The film is shot on 16mm film, with the beauty of the Italian countryside, so that the audience feels as if they are in an Italian oil painting - the light and shadow in the mountains and the noise in the city are combined with the texture of the film, creating a unique mysterious atmosphere.
In the trailer, the Marquise's "fairy theory" of "human = animal" deepens the colonial atmosphere that pervades the manor - the strong exploit the weak, the weak exploit the weak, and highlight Lazzaro's tragic fate as the "bottom of the food chain".
The young actor Adriano Tardioolo, who plays Lazzaro, has a unique temperament and gentle eyes, and the flashing religious significance of the lens deepens the "divinity" of Lazzaro, no wonder countless filmmakers will call him "little angel".
In the movie, Lazaro is regarded as a fool by the villagers because of his kindness, but for this reason he makes a friend of the Marquis Young Master, and in the end, it is also because of kindness that he has created his own tragic fate. Can't help but make the off-camera audience think -- do good people really have good rewards? The allegorical meaning of the film's title ,Happy Lazzaro combined with the fate of the protagonist is self-evident.
Xiong Hao, the debater of "Strange Story", as the "happiness recommender" of this film, also issued a "Good people will have good rewards" on Weibo. The contemplation after the observation triggered a heated discussion among users
iQiyi Movie amp; Dadi Cinema launched the premiere activity, and the literary and art theater line was broadcast exclusively on the whole network during the same period
"Happy Lazzaro" although won important awards, praise, but the domestic opportunities seen on the big screen is not much, January 13, iQIYI Film and the Big Love Screening Room of the Land Theater held the "Happy Lazzaro" online premiere day in Beijing, the large screen with 16mm film shooting movies, bringing the audience a high-quality enjoyment of vision.
Friends who can't participate in the offline premiere don't have to be disappointed, "Happy Lazzaro" has been broadcast exclusively on iQiyi Movies at 16:00 on January 13 - I hope that this film, which is hailed as the most simple, can make you start thinking, have you decided to be a really good person?