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This year, Bulgari joined hands with the Shanghai International Film Festival for the third consecutive year to launch the "Bulgari Classic Presentation: Influential Figures" screening unit, through the screen to understand the world, pay tribute to those who are in the turbulent times. Yesterday, at the symposium "Heroes, Inside and Outside the Light and Shadow", Kolia Neveux, Managing Director of Bulgari Greater China, Michele Cecchi, Consul General of Italy in Shanghai, the 87th Academy Award for "Best Actress", British actress Rosamund Pike, Chinese actress Serenity and Italian actor Alessio Lapice gathered together to discuss the heroes inside and outside the film. And their human charm and ideal brilliance.
Bulgari "Influential People, Inside and Outside the Light" Symposium
A man of the art on and off the screen
Everyone's personality is different. A character can be a great character recorded through movies, or a movie character shaped through the charm of light and shadow. The five biographical films in this year's "Bulgari Classic Presentation: Figures of the Past" screening unit , "Big Star", "The First King", "Puccini", "Modigliani" and "Mother Teresa" - not only create a broader image of "storm figures" in and out of light and shadow for the audience, but also provide a space for thinking about what is a storm figure.
British actress Pei Chunhua has intersected with james Bond of the "007" series of films, Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" Bennett Five Sisters and other epoch-making figures in her film career, and has also played a great warwoman such as Mary Colvin in "Private War". In her view, the heroes are those who inspire people or promote changes in the world, and they are also people with great courage. Sometimes, they fight alone, experiencing countless difficulties and dangers on the road to forge ahead, but they always adhere to their beliefs.
British actress Rosamund Pike
The powerful Chinese actor Tranquility has not only played prominent and famous figures in the history of Empress Xiaozhuangwen and Empress Xuan, but also created impressive characters such as Milan in "Sunny Days" and Danzhu in "Red River Valley". She said that the definition of a person of the past is very broad, it can be a celebrity hero in ancient and modern China and abroad, or it can be some "small people" who happen around us, or even ourselves.
Chinese actress Serenity
The multifaceted humanity of light and shadow
In the film world, we can feel the rich character emotions, the ups and downs of the storyline, but also through the shooting methods, narrative skills, character shaping, etc., a more intuitive, multi-angle way, the complexity of human nature emerges in the light and shadow. Pei Chunhua, who played the "multi-faceted wife" in "The Disappearing Lover", said, "When you treat the complex characters [in the movie] with the right attitude, you will find that they are sometimes very interesting."
From the film for nearly 30 years of tranquility, he shared that the process of actors shaping roles is two-way, while shaping roles, these roles also give actors different souls, "I feel very lucky, because when an actor can experience different lives, and I often say that I am a person who uses my life to act."
One of the main actors in "The First King" is the Italian actor Alessio Lapice, who plays the mythical founder of the Roman Empire, Romulus, who is facing a variety of human choices related to life, honor and faith. He said that when playing a great figure, he feels nervous and stressed, but also feels very fortunate, "The role of Romulus makes me realize that everything in the world is cohesive, and I think this is the charm of the hero."
Italian actor Alessio Lapice
The significance of the times of the heroes
Inside and outside, light and shadow are intertwined with the brilliance and darkness of human nature, and also record the characters and the faces of the times that have aroused the world's deep thinking, such as Martin Luther King, King, Gandhi, and Mother Teresa, who have "divinity". Through the silver screen space, we sigh at the size of the world, and also feel the profound meaning and beautiful brilliance brought by the heroes in the era of ups and downs. In this regard, Pei Chunhua and Tranquility have shared their experiences in participating in social charity.
"Italy has given Bulgari so much beauty, and Bulgari has given back," said Kolia, Managing Director of Bulgari Greater China, which has always echoed its inspired world – from funding the restoration of ancient monuments in Rome to promoting cinematic, artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Italy through the Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2014, Bulgari donated money to the Roman government to repair the Spanish Steps, recreating this classic scene that has an important position in both light and shadow.
Klia, Managing Director of Bulgari Greater China
Mr. Chen Qi, Consul General of Italy in Shanghai, also shared that Italy and China are both cultural powers with profound historical heritage, with more than 2,000 years of exchanges between them, and have maintained friendly exchanges at all levels such as trade, culture and art. The Bvlgari symposium with the theme of "Influential Figures" skillfully brought together the light and shadow art, cultural history and life aesthetics of China and Italy, presented the charm of the heroes, beautiful lives and movies to the audience, and once again carried out a profound and unforgettable cultural journey.
Michele Cecchi, Consul General of Italy in Shanghai
Every influential figure is a microcosm of the times. In the world of Bulgari and movies, we pay tribute to those influential people on and off the screen with light and shadow and brilliance, and also discover and understand the face of the times and personality charm behind them from them, so that we can continue to make progress in thinking and move forward in the times.
As the official partner of the Shanghai International Film Festival, Bulgari continues to be committed to the exchange and development of Chinese and Italian film culture. The five "Heroes of the Past" films presented by Bulgari classics not only show Italy's long and profound history and artistic culture, but also immerse the audience in the intertwined light and shadow, and feel the color and significance of the times in the complex world. Bulgari will always maintain close interaction with the film, continuing more light and shadow inside and outside the storm.