Every year, the Shanghai International Film Festival will have the latest masterpieces from the world film masters, and the "New Works by Famous Directors" unit is such a unit that collects the latest works of film masters from all over the world and satisfies the audience's desire for films for the first time. This year's "New Works by Famous Directors" section has 7 works, namely:
The latest comedy from the "Outstanding Citizen" director group, "The Great Painter of Outlaws"; the murderous moral drama "Devil Doctor" by Polish film master Krzyszto Zanusi; the hilarious comedy "Destiny Rushed" directed by Japanese ghost director Sabu, who was a jury member of the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival; the fantasy film "Running to the Sea" starring Japanese director Koji Fukada in seven years and starring popular actor Fujioka Indigo; the Filipino contemporary film master Mandoza's realist anti-drug masterpiece "Alpha, The Right to Kill"; fantasy master Terry S. Gilliam's tragic adventure masterpiece "This Man Comes from a Crazy World", which was only filmed in a quarter of a century; idol actress Xia Fanli showed her mature acting skills "I want to refuel!" etc.
The "Premiere Ceremony" unit, as the name suggests, is the latest premiere film, and there is a grand meeting with important creators present. Let's take a look at the red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival this year.
Famous new works
Highlights: How the great painters were played to death
The film is the independent directorial debut of Gaston Du Palat, one of the two duo of directors of "Outstanding Citizen", and tells the story of gallery owner Arturo and painter Renzo who have made an extreme and ridiculous plan to save their respective careers. The film continues the theme of "Outstanding Citizen" and tells the problems faced by artists in the process of artistic development from the perspective of painting - abandonment or self-compromise. Argentina's two veteran actors, Gullermo Francella and Luis Brandoni, work together in a tacit understanding, and the funny and unobtrusive performances make the film full of satire on reality in black humor.
Highlights: When Frankenstein meets Faust
In Poland on the eve of World War I, a doctor rose to the occasion and used ether to commit adultery instead of counter-killing. After being sentenced to death, he was pardoned and worked as a military doctor in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, continuing his terrible experiments. The film tells the story of a doctor's fanaticism in pursuit of drugs to seize human free will, and the story of a two-part parallel structure deconstructed from two perspectives: science and metaphysics. Polish film master Krzystów Zanusi, who has a double degree in physics and philosophy, conveys scientific rationality and evil in cold tones, precise editing, and a cramped environment.
Highlights: Troupe exile type men in unison
Ahao, the "little prince of acting" who was kidnapped by crazy female fans; Ah Jian, whose girlfriend was hit by a bandit stray bullet and fell into a coma, "doing a good deed every day" to beg his girlfriend to wake up; Tie Xiong, who frantically sought revenge on the underworld after his release from prison. The three people who seem to have no connection are woven together by various coincidences. The latest wonderful and hilarious work brought by Sabu, a Japanese ghost director who is a frequent guest of major film festivals and good at black humor, has a very strong cast, and all the members of the performing arts group "Troupe Exile" created by Hiro, the leader of the Japanese "migrant worker" group "exile", including Xiang Aoyanagi and Keita Machida, are all starring, and the stars are brilliant and extraordinarily eye-catching.
Highlights: Indigo Fujioka plays a super-powered man
A mysterious man was found lying on the shores of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. He speaks only simple Japanese and Indonesian. Around this enigmatic smiling man, something incredible began to happen. Director Koji Fukada once won the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival for "Standing on the Edge", which is the brainchild of the film that he spent seven years polishing the script and personally shooting in Indonesia, expressing his thoughts on history, religion, nature and so on with his consistent delicate approach. The recently popular Fujioka Indigo plays the mysterious man in the film, showing that charming temperament to the fullest.
Highlights: Drug control for the country and drug trafficking for the family
The fate of Espino, a drug enforcement officer, and Ilya, an informant, were involved in a joint operation against Manila's largest drug dealer. In this new film, the Filipino contemporary filmmaker Brilante Mandoza, who won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, continues to use his camera movement and shooting characteristics, deep into Manila's labyrinthine shantytowns, where low-contrast whites and the tension of the soundtrack's repetitive rhythm provide a realistic documentary look and feel for the film. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 66th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Watch: Love movies like Don Quixote
This rhapsody about Don Quixote is arguably one of the saddest films in the history of cinema, starting in 1991, after two shooting, various miscarriages, and even the death of the lead actor, but the ghost master Terry Gilliam still did not give up, and finally finished the film in 2018, invited to become the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival. The film maintains Gilliam's usual absurd fantasy style, the multiple nesting between fiction, reality, and fantasy repeats itself, and a scene in the castle is a great gift for the fans, and dreams and dreams require Don Quixote's paranoia and fanaticism.
Highlights: The latest comedy directed by "Love of a Hundred Dollars"
Director Masaharu Takeshi, who has won numerous awards for "100 Yuan Love", and screenwriter Adachi Gentry, joined hands again to shoot the growth experience of a professional woman in Minami Osumi Town, Kagoshima Prefecture, the southernmost part of japan's main island. The film tells the story of Takako, a female anchor of a TV station in Tokyo, who is at a low ebb in life and is sent to Minami-Osumi town to cover local traditional festivals, and she returns to her childhood hometown to rediscover herself. Idol-turned actress Xia Fan plays the lead role, showing convincing mature acting skills in the film, leading the audience to enjoy the idyllic scenery of Japan's remote countryside and understand the unique folk culture.
Premiere ceremony
Highlights: A small reunion after half a century of film history legends
In 1966, French film maestro Claude LeRouche's "A Man and a Woman" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Half a century later, the 82-year-old Lelouch summoned the film's lead actors and actresses, Jean-Louis Trentinion, 89, and Anouque Aimé, 87, to shoot the sequel, The Most Beautiful Years. Three elderly film legends reminisced about their youth through the film, and stars such as the Italian beauty Monica Bellucci helped to make this new work of knowing the old and caring for the elderly touch everyone at this year's Cannes Film Festival. This year, the Shanghai International Film Festival had the honor of inviting the 82-year-old Leluche to Shanghai to join fans in the premiere ceremony.
Highlights: The song and dance rhapsody of the eccentric Yaguchi Shijing
Yaguchi Shijing is a geek in the Japanese film industry, and his works such as "Swing girl", "Five Splashing Teenagers", "Which Ah Ah God Goes to the Village" and so on, each of which has a unique personal style and rhythm, is acclaimed and acclaimed. This film is his own self-written and self-directed original music song and dance film, using his usual whimsical brain hole and natural sense of humor, telling the wonderful story of a female employee of the company who is hypnotized and will involuntarily sing and dance as soon as she hears the music. In addition to showing her dance skills and singing voice in the film, the new generation of popular actress Sanji Caihua, who starred in the film, is also expected to come to Shanghai to meet with fans.
Highlights: The explosive visual presentation of the real flowers of The River
Spanning the art, film and television, and fashion worlds, Shikazu Kagawa is unique in its gorgeous visual style and shows her talents in film, and in 2007, she directed her debut film "Evil Girl Flower Queen" and participated in the Berlin International Film Festival. The film is her latest film adaptation of a novel by writer Yukiaki Hirayama about a teenage girl who is forced to work in a mysterious restaurant whose customers are all kinds of professional killers. In addition to the super luxury star lineup such as Fujiwara Ryuya, Tamaki Tina, Oguri Shun, and Anna Tsuchiya, the director's signature gorgeous style is also vividly displayed in art. The director himself is also expected to come to Shanghai to communicate with the audience.