Kaleidoscope
The Shanghai International Film Festival launched the "Kaleidoscope" screening unit last year, which was set up to bring together excellent films from all over the world and combine them into a dazzling kaleidoscope of world films through the units, so that the audience can understand the overall trend of world cinema in the past year. Due to the huge amount of films in the "Kaleidoscope" unit, it is introduced in four batches, and today I introduce the fourth and final part of the "Kaleidoscope" unit of this Shanghai International Film Festival, which are:
The anti-routine love drama "Painting of Love"; the history of New Zealand street gangs "Savage"; the "Prison Break Agreement" in which 49 political prisoners spent 18 months escaping from prison; the secret betrayal of the deep house during World War II, "Cursed Years"; César Award for Best Actress Emmanuel Dove and the French Crystal Ball Award for Best Actor Gregory Montaire staged "Perfume"; the feminist film "New Life", which is all female from creator to actor; according to Russia's "Free Diving Queen" Natalia Möntere, the "Perfume" of the French Crystal Ball Award; the feminist film "New Life"; according to Russia's "Free Diving Queen" Natalia Mönter. Mulchanova's "Hold Your Breath"; the Spanish Wilderness Battle Royale "Bad Weather"; and the "Battle of Lezhev", which is based on the real history of World War II.
Here's a closer look at them:
The Painting of Great Love
the big love picture
-2019-
Highlights: There is always love inside and outside the play
Director Martin and actor Vera met and fell in love because of the short film they worked together, and the story of "Prince and Princess" did not end. The film is the editor's debut feature film debut by Sebastian Mega Diaz. The film uses the voice-over of-the-scenes to deconstruct and ridicule the genre characteristics of romantic comedy, and the positive film begins to point directly to the chicken feathers of life, and the combination of fairy tales and reality attracts people's thinking. Actor Nicolas Voltado breaks away from his toothless yellow hair style in the most watched episode in Argentina, "The Edge", and the gentle beard resembles "Captain America" and the sweet Argentine "Brooke Little Silk" Natalie Perez.
Savage
savage
What to watch: Māori people love to fight to win
The film is Sam Kelly's feature film debut, which was nominated for the Berlin Film Festival's Best Short Film Award, and is inspired by New Zealand's real street gang history, telling the story of Danny, a tattooed, rough and tough member of the "Savage Gang", who walked the three watersheds in his life. The director moved Mad Max 4 to the beautiful New Zealand countryside, giving the film a sense of realism with a dark, gloomy and rough image style. The film stars Jack Ryan, a former Member of the Australian Taekwondo National Team who received a black belt at the age of nine, and his every roar and attack is full of shock.
Jailbreak agreement
jailbreak pact
-2020-
What to watch: 49 political prisoners spent 18 months escaping from prison
The 49 political prisoners detained by the Chilean military junta used knives, forks and other tools to carve out a escape tunnel for 18 months. Based on the most shocking real prison escape in history in Chile in 1990, the film invited the prison escape planner to serve as the film consultant, bringing together many Chilean A-list movie stars to star, and very realistically reproduced the oppressive prison atmosphere, the difficult and exciting escape process and people's desire for survival, which can be called the Chilean version of "The Shawshank Redemption".
Cursed years
into the darkness
What to watch: The secret betrayal in the deep house
At the beginning of World War II, when Germany invaded Denmark, national entrepreneur Carl Skov began to produce electronic products for Germany in order to protect himself, but this choice led to the disintegration of the family. The film's director, Anders Rennes, has won the Danish Film Awards for Best Picture and Best Editing for many of his works. Gaspar Christensen, who played the male lead, won the Danish Film Critics Award for Best Actor five times and was the first actor to play the same villain role in more than two "007" films. The film's restoration of Denmark's occupied history in the scene kimono props is remarkable, and the manor life of the upper class nobles and the family hatred and hatred of the country in the special period are superimposed, like a "betrayal version" of "Downton Abbey".
perfume
Perfumes
Highlights: Fashion female masters smell incense and love
Anne is a world-famous perfumer, but an accident makes her lose her sense of smell, and she is isolated from the world until she meets Guillaume, a driver with the same talent for smelling incense. Whether it is from the story, characters, sets or performances, the film has a strong nostalgic romance atmosphere, as if it is set in the 21st century "Bodyguard". French actress Emmanuel Dove, who won the César Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, played Anne in the film, combining pride, beauty and longing, while Gregory Monttel, who won the French Crystal Ball Award for Best Actor, sparked love with Dove through perfume in the film.
freshman
into the world
What to watch: The unknown black history of midwives
After her daughter went to Paris to study, Jenny, who is more than half a hundred years old, devoted herself to the work of a hospital midwife, and the various stories that happened in the delivery room evoked her memories of the past. The film, from the main creator to the actors are all women, is a completely feminist film, and it is also the third feature film launched by director Marion Lena in eight years, trying to use the birth of a new life to awaken people's rethinking of human relationships. Sandrina Bonaire, who plays Jenny, won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival alongside Huppel for "Cold Festival", and another lead actor, Kenza Forts, won the 2019 César Award for Best New Actor.
Hold your breath
one breath
Highlights: Underwater photography comparable to "Blue Sea and Blue Sky"
Based on the real experience of Russia's "free diving queen" Natalia Mulchanova, it tells the story of retired swimmer Marina who accidentally found herself with the ability to hold her breath underwater and challenge the limits of freediving after her divorce. Different from the inspirational clichés of traditional sports biopics, Russian female director Elena Hazanova interlaces reality and water illusions to show the psychological trauma of her original family; using metaphors such as open windows and coal-burning roads on open fields, exploring the meaning of freediving is the increasing depth of diving, the joy of breaking records, and the belief of breaking through oneself and reshaping one's life.
Bad weather
out in the open
Highlights: Spanish-style wilderness battle royale
Adapted from the novel of the same name, it tells the story of a lone shepherd who helps a child fleeing the oppression of a farmer across the desert. The film is full of gun battles of classic American Westerns, bringing people back to the feudal period of poverty and tyranny in the late Spanish Civil War, creating psychological horror and suffocation through arid and hot desert scenes, claustrophobic spaces and naked violence, so that the audience can deeply feel the pain and despair brought about by the inherent cruelty of human beings, as well as the preciousness of humanity and freedom. It was nominated for five nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2020 Spanish Goya Awards, and won the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song awards.
Battle of Lezhev
rzhev
Highlights: The Red Army fought to the bitter end
Based on Vyacheslav Kondratyev's award-winning novel, it tells the story of the complete destruction of a Soviet Red Army in the Soviet-German War of World War II in 1942 for the "Lezhev Salient". It was this battle that pinned down a large number of German troops and indirectly led to the collapse of the 6th Army. Director Igor Kopilov has no intention of presenting a grand war scene in a panoramic way, but instead takes a unique approach by intercepting a local battle in the Battle of Lezhev, creating a group portrait of a Soviet company that is different from the war machine and full of humanity, focusing on the contradiction between the ideology and the national sentiment of the individual.
Welcome to continue to pay attention to us and grasp the blockbuster list of the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival in 2020 for the first time.
Note: In case of change in the film schedule, the actual schedule shall prevail.
2020 Shanghai International Film Festival film list summary
Tribute to the Master 丨 Federico Fellini
Wandering Child 丨 Liar 丨 Sweet Life 丨 Eight and a Half Parts 丨 Juliet and the Devil 丨 Clown 丨 Roman Style Painting 丨 AmaCord 丨 Interview Record 丨 Moon Yin
The essence of the film festival
Olig 丨 Ava's Garden of Eden 丨 Control Point 丨 Abu Lyra 丨 Adam 丨 Tropical Rain 丨 Time Machine 丨 Air Conditioning 丨 Salt of Tears 丨 Baby Teeth 丨 Young Ahmed 丨 Death of a Dog
Comedy Love Wife Story 丨 White on White 丨 Thief's Daughter 丨 Good Dream Day Tour 丨 Gilded Voice 丨 Echo 丨 Varan: Valley of Angels 丨 Battle of Atbai丨 Girls 丨 Lighthouse 丨 Pipe 丨 Nanfa Sister Story
Wind's Call 丨6.5 Million 丨 Monkey 丨 Mother 丨 Goodbye, I Love 丨 Perfect Candidate 丨 My Heartbeat You Decide 丨 Summer White 丨 Old Man Immortal 丨 Truth 丨 1917
kaleidoscope
Next happiness 丨 Love in the human world 丨 Truth and Justice 丨 Wish you a happy birthday 丨 Long time no see丨 Red Moon 丨 Barefoot Emperor 丨 Love Isolation 丨 Blood Crazy Flower 丨 Desperate Crocodile Mouth 丨 Accompany the Old Cannon
Shambhala 丨 Hurricane 丨 European Beauty 丨 The Death and Life of Gaucho Gill 丨 My Stupid Dog 丨 Replay 丨 Somewhere, Someone 丨 Final Verdict
My Baby 丨 Presa 丨 Sea Fever 丨 Anna 丨 Father 丨 Translation Doubt Cloud 丨 Wish Room 丨 Sleepwalker 丨 Magic Spell 丨 Two Blue Lines 丨 Moon Landing Absurdity
Tribute to the Master | Claude Chabrol
Pretty Sergi 丨 Good Women 丨 Madame Bovary 丨 Cold Festival
Shochiku 100 Years of Film
Scandal 丨 Sand instrument 丨 only son 丨 楢山節考丨 cut abdomen
Rainbow Movie
#All-out handball#丨 City of Stars 丨 Love Dolls 丨 Wednesday Disappeared丨 Lie Story 2丨 Typhoon Family 丨 Quiet Rain 丨 Initial Dinner丨 Dance! Mita 丨 overhead ol diary
A tribute to the Master 丨 今敏
Millennium actress 丨 Tokyo Godfather 丨 Red Peppers
Special planning "Samsung Company"
Glorious Battle 丨 Tianya Fell Two Hearts Know 丨 Seattle Sleepless Night 丨 Burning Love Years 丨 Sweetheart Mr. 丨 Perfect Beauty 丨Zoro's Mask
New Horizons
Modern Apocalypse 丨 Us 丨 Joker Returns 2丨 Sleeping Doctor 丨 Extreme Jordan 丨 Giant Panda
Siff records
Ordinary god 丨 female soldier Chelsea 丨 This is not the movie丨 The photographer in the fire of war丨 Went to the breakthrough again丨 Decisive punch 丨 Between the dog and the wolf丨 It is not easy to be a teacher