Chapter 413: First time in Cannes, new friends
On the evening of April 4, Xia Tian was on the phone with Hong Kong.

They always find something as an excuse to call – this time they wanted to tell Xia Tian about the Academy Awards.

Xia Tian was making a phone call on the single sofa, while Milan, Xiao Xu and the other two were leaning on the long sofa watching TV.

A new program is being broadcast on TV – the new “Zhengda Variety Show” on CCTV Finance Channel.

It can be seen that TV stations are now also making some “trendy” changes.

For example, this program uses field hosts to take viewers to various parts of the world to learn about local customs and cultures.

The program slogan is “You don’t know how wonderful the world is until you see it”, and it later became the childhood memory of several generations~
However, where are Milan, Xiaoxu and the other two’s attention, on the TV?

They all pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.
Xia Tian also deliberately turned up the volume to satisfy their eavesdropping habits.
Well, thoughtful!

Aying and Wang Fei on the other end of the phone were watching the live broadcast on TV and reporting the news they saw to Xia Tian.

At the 9th Hong Kong Film Awards, “Over the Sunset” won the Best Picture.

Wu Baige won the Best Director award for “A Better Tomorrow”.

Chow Yun-fat and Cheung Manyu won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards for “A Lang’s Story” and “The Man Who Never Takes Off His Socks” respectively.

Best Supporting Actor Liang Caowei (“Killer Butterfly Dream”), Best Supporting Actress Cecilia Yip (“Flying Over the Dusk”)…

Best Film Score: Luo Dayou/Lu Shijie’s “Eight Two Pounds of Gold”, Best Film Song: “Dragon Plays with Phoenix” “With Love”, composed by Lowell Lo, lyrics by Yuanliang Pan, sung by Rui Su (the one who sang “The Wine is Gone”)…

And this time’s Academy Awards are also related to Xia Tian – Yuen Wah and Lam Ching-ying from “The Bodyguard” defeated the Jacky Cheung’s “Miracle” and “Dragon and the Phoenix” starring Fatty Hung, and won the Best Action Director award!
It’s not surprising that Xia Tian could defeat the Big Nose Dragon. After all, the Big Nose Dragon had to give his brother Sanmao some face.

However, Fatty Hong actually let “The Bodyguard” defeat “Dragon Ball”?
But Xia Tian thought about it again, and it made sense – after all, the action director of “Dragon and Phoenix” was actually Yuan Heping and the Yuan Family…

Well, that’s all summer speculation.

He didn’t know how the awards were specifically given, nor did he care anymore.

The Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards now only have some influence in their respective circles.

Later, the inland areas also started to flatter, and began to become more high-end~
However, their film industry began to decline at that time, and then they started to implement local protectionism, which eventually made people here too lazy to care about it, and it was no longer viable.

The successive occurrences of these two awards are closely related to the changes in the film industry in the two places.

It can even be said that there is an inevitable decline trend – the main reason is that small-scale workshop-style creations cannot beat the film industry, and their respective markets are not big enough!

……

The people on the phone are still chatting, talking about this and that, how the company is doing, what happened to Lou Xiao’e, what happened to Huo Lili, how Bai Ze Venture Capital attracted attention, the recent performance of Lijiang Trading… just rambling.

At this time, the “Zhengda Variety Show” had finished broadcasting and began to broadcast advertisements – “Where to go on the trip to Central Plains, Zhengzhou Asia!”

——It was a very popular department store, but unfortunately it went bankrupt later.

Milan saw Xia Tian said good night, put down the phone, and walked over.

Xia Tian looked at her: “What are you going to do?”

Milan: “Fuck!”

“No, wait~”

“What are you waiting for? I am doing this for your own good! For the sake of family harmony! Come with me into the house~”

It’s been less than a month since I came back and I’m going to Cannes, France again!
If we don’t show you how powerful we are, will you still stick your tail up to the sky? !

Just lie down nicely!

……

On May 1st, Xia Tian sang a song at an official cultural performance.

On May 6, “I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City” began to be broadcast on CCTV…

On May 7, he set out alone for Cannes, France.

The flight from Yanjing to Paris takes ten hours, and after landing, you have to go to Cannes.

It wasn’t until May 9th that summer finally arrived.

And the No. 10 Family Film Festival has officially opened!

He doesn’t have many acquaintances here.

We do have staff here, and we learned some French daily expressions over the summer, so it’s not really inconvenient.

But there are two people I know – Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.

They flew here directly from Hong Kong and arrived earlier than Xia Tian.

At that time, attending a film festival did not have the same “sense of ceremony” as later, with formal dresses and so on.

It can be said that everything is kept simple!
Even the short film poster was drawn by Xia Tian himself and printed by local people – he thought the organizer’s poster was ugly!

I was thinking of putting up some flyers or something like that… but then I thought, forget it! It’s just a short film, why would I need to make such a big fuss about it? It’s unnecessary.

Instead, he wandered around, ate and drank everywhere, and wanted to buy some gifts to take back.

Compared to Xia Tian’s low-key performance, Zhang Yimou is quite popular – after all, he has won the Venice Golden Lion and is considered an internationally renowned director. The organizers of the film festival sent two people to receive him.

The screening of the movie “Ju Dou” received a good response and received a lot of praise.

At this time, the international community was very curious about China and was also relatively tolerant – after all, the Russian big brother was still there!
Plus the subject matter…right?
By 99, when Zhang Yimou’s “Not One Less” was screened in Cannes, the world situation and attitudes had changed.

The film was questioned as “political propaganda”, which led to a falling out between Zhang Yimou and Cannes.

However, although many foreigners now expressed their optimism about “Ju Dou”, I remember that Zhang Yimou seemed to have won the Jury Prize for “To Live”… Anyway, this film didn’t win anything, right?

As for Xia Tian, ​​the unknown person is definitely not taken seriously by the authorities.

There are many actresses I met who are quite enthusiastic about summer…

It’s normal to just want to get to know someone and make friends.

As for the rest, Xia Tian politely declined the request for “in-depth communication at the hotel”.

Xia Tian: I don’t learn foreign languages!

……

In the summer, besides hanging out with two fellow villagers and chatting about this and that French thing, I also look for special foods everywhere.

French cuisine is quite famous, and some of the dishes are quite good.

Actually, this was his second time eating French food. The last time was seven or eight years ago when he was in the United States. Sister Yun treated him…

And Xia Tian also made a new friend through the meal.

“Hey Big Nose, the store you recommended better be as great as you say, or I’m going to start questioning your taste!”

Summer jokes with new friends.

His new friend, Gerard Depardieu, is also an actor participating in the film festival. He is a Frenchman, seventeen years older than Xia Tian, ​​so they can be considered a close friend regardless of age.

However, foreigners are not sensitive to age and seniority, so it is easy to get along with them.

I met him in the summer when I was having dinner and complaining at an Italian restaurant in Cannes.

The two of them complained about Italians for more than ten minutes and got along quite well!
I have some impression of Big Nose in the summer, but I definitely can’t remember his name or what movie he acted in.

But I have definitely seen it – I guess it was broadcast by CCTV’s Sixth Princess!
Afterwards, Big Nose acted as the host and introduced to Xia Tian some restaurants and delicacies that he thought were very satisfying.

When they have nothing to do, they just eat, go shopping, and watch movies everywhere. After watching the movies, they also give comments.

It did improve Xia Tian’s spoken French a lot!

But sometimes people also complain about the weird taste in the summer – who would like to eat snails?

Eating snails here has a long history. It is said that it was a very fashionable dish in Roman times.
But as a half-foodie, Xia Tian was very picky and criticized the thing itself for having too strong an earthy smell, saying that all the flavor was in the sauce!

It would be great if I could make some conch shells with this time~
Moreover, I am impatient to eat those complicated foods in summer. I don’t even like to eat crabs, let alone snails.

During this period, the short film “Buried Alive” will also be screened in a very small screening room with less than 50 seats.

However, Big Nose highly praised this short film.

After all, France is the birthplace of the New Wave in cinema, and has very high requirements for films, which must be artistic.

This summer movie is very unique and powerful. It is not like the cult movies in Germany and France. In short, it has a fresh feeling.

He also promoted Xia Tian to his friends and acquaintances. After all, he was a local actor and attracted many people to watch the short film.

Otherwise, there would be two sessions every morning and afternoon, totaling half an hour, with only about fifty or sixty people seated.

Now it’s a bit full!

Many people went back to tell their friends after watching it, and then asked others to watch it – well, it was tap water in the 1990s!
This surprised Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.

When they first learned that Xia Tian had made a short film that was shortlisted for the Cannes Short Film Competition, they were very surprised.

Unexpectedly, this short film suddenly became popular four or five days after it was aired.

Many film review publications here have given it very high praise, mainly focusing on the two words “new” and “unique”!
These professional film critics watch hundreds of films every year, and it is very rare for them to feel novel.

Lao Mouzi and his friends invited Xia Tian to get together and have dinner that day.

We have been busy with publicity in the past period of time, and now there are only two days left until the closing ceremony and awards ceremony, so all we have to do is wait.

If the organizer tells you not to leave in the next one or two days and to stay for the closing ceremony, you will get a prize.

If I didn’t tell you, then goodbye~
(End of this chapter)