Venice Film Festival: There is still a long way to go

The 71st Venice International Film Festival presented the Golden Lion to Roy Anderson, age 71, who, despite his age, has a legendary career as a director and has produced fewer than seven feature films - - The final estimate is not easy to this number.

For most Chinese fans, this Venice list of winners quite unfamiliar, the film festival's activities are also reported deserted, should be the best film that few words: Cold Warbler. In front of the reporter's words, from beginning to end, no one has seen a field over. In contrast, Cannes long lines, grab the head, who is the king, at a glance.

There are many reasons for the cold in Venice, some also said that this year is not cold, because last year is still cold than this year. Compared to the era of Mark Muller, Venice is not too much of a Chinese movie, even with "intruders", "dear", "golden age" to support the scene, there are video sites to drop money, but these are with Venice Movie level has little to do. Of course, Chinese films are losing ground in these three festivals in these years, and they finally look forward to Berlin's "daytime fireworks." Can be a Cannes, Venice, flew again and again revealed. Even the "intruder", rumor has it that it was transferred to Venice for a ticket after confirming hopelessness in Cannes.

Second, because of the lack of Chinese movies, it led to the loss of hot topics. Compared to Guo Jingming and Han Han's love and death, "embroidered spring knife" was touted as the best of the year, far from the Chinese film in Venice simply stingy. "Dear" and "Golden Age" has not yet launched propaganda campaign, "intruder" also makes people "forgot to understand you."

In the era of big data, Chinese film is walking in a thousand miles of bright road, everyone believes that the box office is the only answer. In this context, not only in Venice, the three major film festivals have been weakened the sense of presence, the art film is reduced to the box office poison, is the antonym of commercial films.

Speaking of movies, more people think of into the cinema, which is consumer entertainment is also a social topic, rather than far away in the other side of the film festival - see them at least six months or even a year later, one day There are seven or eight films released cinemas, they are simply endangered animals. For the media, the festival is no longer the click-through traffic of the portal era, just a star married can overwhelm it. Like the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, all the lively scenes of media reporters who can apply for going abroad for vacation are probably never to appear again.

From another point of view, the reporters who focus on running in the country and get through the draft will have to digest a large number of people in Venice, and frequent movement of personnel. This also results in the film festival's reporting mode being uniform and lacking in bright spots . Relative to those gray-haired foreigners filmmakers, young Chinese still have too much to learn.

Professionals also point out that the weakness in Venice is also related to the absence of U.S. movies and Hollywood stars. Compared to Muller's fanciful actress, she willingly knelt on her knees, and now Venice is too much like a normal old-school film festival. . In addition, due to the rising status of Toronto in North America, it is approaching Venice time, forming a direct competitive trend, taking away a lot of resources, so that the Italians are embarrassed.

But this Venice is not good?

I do not know where to start, under the stimulation of new and old media, the Festival has become a Vanity Fair and a fashion show, but ignores the pureness of the film itself, as well as the purity of film selection. When Cannes became a big party, when Toronto became a big market, everyone defined the festival differently.

The same old Lugano International Film Festival, friends have been to say that during the festival, the town is full of the atmosphere of the movie, leopard and spots (Locarno mascots are leopards) can be seen everywhere. For Chinese fans, the festival has long outgrown the mainstream line of sight, if you want to find a list of all the previous winners have to spend energy, but who would say that it is not a successful festival?

Japanese director Hiroyuki Tsujiu mentioned in his essay "The Walking Speed," that a good film festival must accommodate five different points of view: filmmaker, audience, film critic, publisher, and jury It is truly diverse and successful film festival. In fact, the annual film is a lot, but we all know very well, so a good movie. When being selected by the three big turns of the round again, especially the main competition in Cannes, a concern, such as the dazzling degree of the unit, other A-type film festival's live basically broken, and can only be followed by the second, this time, once again It

Many film festivals have chosen the road to citizenship, such as the Hong Kong International Film Festival. There is no major competition to avoid the world premiere. But also take the initiative to avoid the international horizons, just like the Busan International Film Festival Asian films, do enough geographical features. There are also Rotterdam and Vancouver specifically for the new director, and the more mini Tokyo FILMeX. Similarly, in the Mainland, Shanghai has gradually become the trend of the Citizens Film Festival, while Beijing still stays in the official rigid thinking. As for the future of Qingdao International Film Festival, it is to take the high-up high, it is bound to bright stars, the completion of the Oriental Hollywood.

If only from the natural conditions and geographical considerations, then, Cannes and Venice have a unique advantage, history, culture, beaches, yachts, world-famous. On the contrary, whether in Berlin or Tokyo, they are bound to be restricted and restrained by the metropolis in the form of organization. It is very hard to really make the film festival culture reach the limit (the city is too big). According to such a standard, China is suitable for the birth of similar festivals, no more than Dalian, Qingdao or Dali.

Returning to the Venice Film Festival, it does not matter if it picks a good movie that relies on the fly and upholds the standards of the supremacy of the arts, whether it be turning to a nursing home or a beggar, a business-to-business or a biased author. To say that what really matters badly is probably Quentin's "somewhere" where Sophia Coppola was chosen, and he would never be excused. A similar approach not only undermined the Golden Lion's gold content, but also make people think the film off the price. After all, most fans can not visit the film festival scene, do not know the hotel even more do not know the traffic bad, they can only rely on the current year's list of winners to see the last one. To some extent, fans' testimonials best reflect the artistic standards of a festival - if the movie is also considered an art. However, behind this set of evaluation systems, they are influenced and influenced by film festival film selectors, jury members, film critics and media reporters. After a long period of feedback, whether a film can be based on movie history - Not self-expansion of the award-winning testimony, the result will be the real thing.

Therefore, it is a fact that the film festival does not pay attention when the front correspondent uses the death of Venice to create a sense of fuss about the festival, but it still has a long way to go. Italians are not solid, they always love art.