The 70th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 20 to March 1, 2020, and this year's award date has been postponed in order not to conflict with the date of the Oscars.
As one of the three major film festivals in the world, the Berlin International Film Festival will celebrate its 70th birthday this year. This time Berlin's "China Power", we can not only see Cai Liangming's "Days" as the only Chinese drama film shortlisted for the main competition unit
Stills from "Days"
In addition, the documentary "Swim Until the Sea Turns Blue" directed by Jia Zhangke was shortlisted for the special screening unit of the film festival, and "Calm" directed by Song Fang was shortlisted for the forum unit;
In the morning, we also saw qi Xi, the heroine of "Calm", wearing Converse and a light pink suspender dress elegant and playful on the red carpet, which is also the only Chinese actress face that Bajie has seen so far to appear on the Berlin red carpet.
Looking at Asia, South Korean director Hong Sang-so, who is well known to many Chinese audiences, once again entered the main competition unit of this Berlin Film Festival with his new film "The Woman Who Escaped", and it is also his fourth time to be shortlisted for Berlin, and the heroine this time is still Kim Min-hee.
The movie "The Woman Who Ran Away" also recently released a new movie trailer: when her husband traveled on a business trip, Gamhee (Kim Min-hee) met with three of her friends. She first went to meet two of the three at their respective homes, and the third met by chance in the cinema. However, when they talked amicably as usual, their hearts were already up and down, and the dark tide was surging.
This time, Ba Jie will also focus on Hong Sang-so's shortlisted works in Berlin in addition to "The Woman Who Escaped", and talk to everyone about the emotional stirring of the "Korean writer's first film" image world.
"Alone by the Sea at Night"
Release date: March 23, 2017
Starring: Kim Min-hee, Seo Young-hee, Jeong Jae-yong, Moon Sung-geun
"Alone by the Sea at Night" should be the most well-known of director Hong Shangxiu's works shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival. In addition to the actress Kim Min-hee won the 67th Berlin Film Festival crown with the film;
The news of her elopement with the director outside of marriage has also become the talk of the melon eaters after dinner.
A scene more dramatic than the rumors of the relationship between the two is: "Alone on the Sea at Night", which unfolds from the perspective of the actress played by Kim Min-hee, tells the story of an actress and a director who have an extramarital affair, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is based on Hong Sang-so and her real life experience.
The story lines of the film all use Young-hee as a single perspective: she has to go overseas to avoid the limelight because of her love affair with her unassuming director; her acting skills are highly appreciated, but she can't get a good job because of the impact of the scandal.
She is married or finds a partner's friend, or suffers loneliness, or loses herself;
The whole film seems to be through the mouth of Kim Min-hee, declaring to the audience, and even to those around the world who criticize their emotional world: "How unnecessary, how small, how vain all those things that hinder our love are."
Therefore, from this point of view, the film does have the suspicion of whitewashing the unrequited love between the two. However, aside from the labels of "third party" and film queen, I have to admit that There is a touching and special beauty in Kim Min-hee. Berlin awards winner Diego Luna's presentation for Best Actress was: "You can't stop watching her"
Seaweed-like curls, alienated and indifferent eyes can penetrate the temperament and style of the bottom of the heart at a glance.
With the line: "What I want, but I can live like myself, without wavering", it is also engraved into the heart of the viewer.
"Not Anybody's Daughter Haiyuan"
Release Date: February 28, 2013 (South Korea)
Starring: Jeong Eun-choi, Lee Sun-kyun
As Hong Shangxiu's 14th feature-length work, "Not Anyone's Daughter Haiyuan" was selected as the top ten of the year by the famous French magazine "Film Handbook" and was shortlisted for the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival competition unit to participate in the Golden Bear Award.
The poster for the Taiwanese version of the film is titled "His and Her Daydreams"
In the form of a diary, the film tells the joy and sorrow experienced by Haiyuan, a female college student who left her mother to live alone, in a few days.
Haiyuan, played by Zheng Encai, still carries the literary temperament of the "Hong Shangxiu": a long black straight hairstyle with a red sweater and flared jeans, carrying a retro sense of the 80s and 90s of the last century.
Eager to become a star in the eyes of the world, she is full of joy and sentimentality when her mother is about to immigrate to Canada and the last time of the mother and daughter together.
After a few uneventful and brief hours, a depressed Hae-won finds a lover who has been dating intermittently for a year, Lee Sung-joon (Lee Sun-kyun), who is also a professor and director at Hae-won's film school.
For Director Li, who has already made a family, their interaction is doomed from the beginning to be hidden in the dark and can never be on the table. No matter what unforgettable sweet words the man had uttered. Rumors of female students and professors in love are rife in the school, and conflicts between them are inevitable, and they simply avoid seeing each other after the quarrel.
And Haiyuan gave the greatest tolerance and understanding to all this. She was soft-hearted again and again, even though she was expecting a brave decision.
Although the film is told by a male director, it is more of a work with a female perspective. Like Hong Shangxiu's previous works, men are as hypocritical, selfish, cowardly, pitiful and hateful as ever in his images.
Although women often choose a path of love that is contrary to social opinion, they often show that they are comfortable, frank and unashamed about love. At the same time, in the undercurrent, it encourages those who look at it to be brave to love and live bravely.
Night and Day
Release Date: February 28, 2009 (South Korea)
Starring: Kim Young-ho Park Eun-hye Wonh So-jeong
The film Night and Day was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 58th Berlin Film Festival and was the earliest to be released in Hong Sang-so's "Berlin Quadrilogy". The film takes place in the early summer of 2007.
A painter (Kim Young-ho) who has been exchanged in South Korea and the United States for smoking marijuana immediately flees to Paris, France, for fear of being caught by the police, and this creative paradise in the eyes of artists is just another cage for kim Sung-nam, who is poor and white.
Living in a Hotel run by South Koreans, he and more than a dozen people huddled in a foul-smelling room, missing his wife and hometown on the one hand, and afraid to go home because of his crimes.
Bored, the painter chose to record his life in a diary.
In the process, he met a Korean woman named Rouzhen, and the lonely man and widow in a foreign country soon fell in love.
But soon after, she received a call from her wife who was pregnant. What choice does the painter choose between a new lover and a family?
The inspiration for the story is said to have also come from the director Hong Sang-so's personal experience: "When he first went to New York, he called home to report that he was safe, although New York was night, seoul was daytime, and he felt very wonderful at that time, although he and his wife were exchanging feelings on the phone, but the time between the two was just the opposite."
The couple's usual life is largely affected by time, and it feels really wonderful to communicate with people who are at the opposite time with themselves, so Hong Shangxiu decided to make such feelings into a movie, using the emotional records of the protagonist painter Jin Chengnan in the film to explore the relationship between men and women. ”
This oriental proposition, which takes place in Paris, France, throws out Hong Shangxiu's consistent discussion of love: the man who was still talking sweetly to you one minute, and the next second he wants to deceive you into returning to the arms of his wife in his hometown.
It is difficult to determine which of the two love modes is the so-called true love, but it can only be said that we can only glimpse the various forms of love in the stories of different people.
"After"
Edit: Timmy