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Chapter 188 Three rounds of playback [Please subscribe]

Cannes, France.

Today is the third day of the screening section of the Cannes International Film Festival. Generally, before the awards are awarded, the films that industry insiders are more optimistic about will be arranged to be broadcast in the first few days.

Therefore, the first few days of the film festival are the busiest time for film buyers from major film companies around the world.

They have to constantly go in and out of various exhibition halls to watch movies, evaluate the movies immediately, and even give quotations, and then seize the time to contact the producers to negotiate the film purchase contract.

John is such a film buyer. He comes from Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney in the United States.

At this moment, he was standing at the door of Rubier's exhibition hall, pulling off the tie on his suit with some irritation.

"Damn weather, damn French."

It turned out that yesterday, he had just acquired a movie for the company at a very low price. It was a movie from South America.

The low-priced ones cost less than $10.

Before he could celebrate with a glass of champagne, his new boss assigned him another task.

An art film by a French director about forbidden love.

These "romantic" lunatics have always liked this style.

Movies of this style do not have a large theater market in the United States and are rated R-rated, but if they are released on video tapes, the revenue will be very considerable.

After all, those gangsters from the lowest level, except for "Bruce Lee"'s Chinese Kung Fu, like this kind of blood-soaked tone.

I thought this would be a smooth deal, but I didn't expect that the stubborn French director spent the whole morning talking to him and finally didn't agree to it.

God, he's already raised the price to $100 million, which is his maximum authority.

"Fxxx."

As a typical descendant of Anglo-Saxon immigrants who came to Britain, John's arrogance made John inherently dislike the French. Coupled with this situation, he was in an even worse mood at the moment.

Even the damn weather became a reason for him to complain.

Standing at the door of the exhibition hall, I lit a cigarette, but the sweat on my forehead was pouring down.

The weather in Cannes is not hot, and can even be said to be very pleasant, but John, who has a hot temper, still can't adapt.

Only halfway through smoking, John threw the cigarette to the ground and stamped it out with his toes.

"Damn, I need some air conditioning to adjust myself."

With that said, John turned and walked into the exhibition hall.

When he arrived at the entrance of the broadcast hall, the promotional posters on the wall stopped him for a moment.

An Asian man wears sunglasses and looks like a blind man.

"The Tuner, a short film?"

"Oh, damn it, the Rubie Hall is where short films are shown. Forget it, never mind, I just need some quiet air conditioning to cool off."

John walked into the theater. There were not many fans watching the movie. He found a seat at random and sat down.

"Oh, God, it feels so good."

John finally turned on the air conditioner and almost groaned from the comfort.

After a while, the movie started playing.

First there is the sound of piano, accompanied by the male protagonist’s narration.

Then the camera changed, and an old man appeared on the screen, sitting motionless on the sofa.

"Who is this man? I don't know him. Haven't even met him, I'm blind."

As a professional film buyer, John is very sensitive to movies and discovered the contradictions in the film immediately.

Since he is blind, why can he see that man?

Could it be that he was pretending?

John became slightly interested.

The camera switched again, the male protagonist was playing naked, and a figure behind him completely enveloped him.

John pinched his chin and subconsciously used his professional instinct to comment on the film.

The light and shadow are handled very maturely. The male protagonist's face is half bright and half dark, as if he has reached a crossroads in life. What will happen to him next?
Nice suspense.

At this time, the screen went black and the title of the film appeared.

In less than a minute, the suspense of the film being handled by the director was rising one after another. Countless questions were placed in John's mind. He subconsciously sat up straight and stared at the screen.

The movie continues with a flashback and begins to introduce the background of the male protagonist.

It tells the story of a frustrated young pianist who disguised himself as a blind person to tune pianos for clients in order to survive, and thus obtained the "privilege" that only blind people have. In the end, he fell into a dilemma of death.

A short film of ten minutes, the story is not complicated.The handling of suspense is excellent, and the narrative structure is also very compact and sophisticated. Coupled with the open ending, it is hard for John to imagine that a short film of only 15 minutes can combine so many elements exquisitely without being awkward at all. unexpected.

What's commendable is that the details in the film are everywhere. After watching it only once, John found that he still had many questions that he had not found out.

After looking at the program list, this short film is scheduled for this afternoon in this broadcasting hall.

It seems that the preliminary review staff are very optimistic about this film.

John decided to wait for 15 minutes and watch it again. While waiting, he found that although there were not many viewers present, no one left the table. They were all discussing the plot in low voices with their friends around them. Clearly still immersed in the movie.

And it seemed that none of them had any intention of leaving, and were all ready to watch it a second time.

At the entrance of the broadcasting hall, new viewers walked in from time to time. They were very surprised to see so many people. I didn't expect that a short film from Asia could attract so many people to watch.

It is estimated that the video must be outstanding, and many people quickly found a favorite seat and sat down, waiting for the video to be played again.

The second time it was played, the reaction was still the same, but the noise from the audience became more intense and no one left.

By the time it was played for the third time, the entire theater was already full and all seats were occupied.

After this round of movie playback, suddenly some audience members stood up and took the lead in applauding. At first it was just one or two people, and then everyone present stood up one by one, and the applause gradually became a continuous one.

John was among them, and his eyes were full of surprises. He didn't expect that he would discover such an excellent short film just by looking for a place to enjoy the air conditioning.

At this time, a young Asian man walked to the front row and bowed deeply to the audience.

This director is so young, no, he is still the leading actor in the film.

He directed and acted himself.

Now John paid more attention to it.

Although short films are no longer part of Touchstone Pictures' film purchase plan for this film festival, their company has a lot of business in Asia.

Such a young, excellent director is simply priceless.

The young man bowing in the front row is Sun Yi.

He was also in a turbulent mood at the moment.

He had learned about the traditions of the Cannes Film Festival in advance. Under normal circumstances, no matter how good the film was, as long as the degree of completion was high enough, the audience here would applaud when the film was finished to express their gratitude and encouragement to the director.

When his movie was played for the first time, apart from a slightly noisy discussion in the auditorium, the audience showed no sign of anything.

He was still a little uneasy at the time.

Could it be that I messed up?
Rao was a very good short film in "The Tuner" in his previous life, but after changing actors and directors, he became a little unconfident when faced with such a performance from the live audience.

When the third round was played and the audience stood up and applauded, he realized that it was the audience who wanted to watch it a few more times and discover all the details in the entire movie.

"Hello director, did the male protagonist die in the end?"

A movie fan in the front row couldn't wait to ask his question when he saw Sun Yi coming out to thank the audience.

But he seemed to have forgotten that Sun Yi was Asian.

"Realisateur, le Seigneur est - il mortà la fin?"

It was so squeaky that Sun Yi couldn't understand it at all, and he thought it was French.

The young audience seemed to realize this and asked again in English.

At this moment, Sun Yi almost understood.

"Uh, uh the leading man, Death or not, that you can find in the film"

Sun Yi was replying in Chinese English. Xiaoting ran two steps and came to the front row to help him.

"Thanks to this enthusiastic fan, our director said that this short film has an open ending. He left blank space in the film to give everyone room for imagination. If you really like to pursue the truth so much, , you might as well pay more attention to the details in the movie, especially the use of light and shadow, I believe you will find the answer."

"Oh, God, it's incredible. I noticed that in the last mirror, the old man and the male protagonist on the sofa were both in a hazy state. Does this imply that the two people have the same ending, that is, death?"

After hearing the general idea, Sun Yi even understood what he meant.

This time there was no need for Xiaoting to translate, he just replied with a smile.

"I admire your attentiveness, but I'm not going to tell you the answer. If that's what you think, then it's correct."

Sun Yi's somewhat treacherous reply did not arouse dissatisfaction among the fans at the scene.On the contrary, the applause from the entire scene became even more enthusiastic.

They seem to like this feeling of being unpredictable and unpredictable.

Sun Yi was standing in the front row, feeling the roar of the audience. His heart felt like a roller coaster, changing from uneasiness to excitement.

The whole body is numb.

A sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously.

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