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The film festival is certainly a good opportunity for the audience to review their favorite movies, classics, or masterpieces on the big screen. But for filmmakers, this is an excellent platform for them to introduce their masterpieces to the world.
It is very common for a director or even an entire team to travel to major film festivals around the world with his work, and this has even become part of their work.
And this time, the Beijing Film Festival carefully planned the "surprise premiere" unit, and sincerely invited the following six films to gather with Chinese audiences in the spring of Beijing, many of which are world premieres:
Just by hearing the name, you can tell that this is a romantic comedy. To be precise, "Getting Off the Singles" is about a school love triangle: The inflatable brother He Xiaoyang has been single for four years, and by chance, he and Zhang Yang’s spice Guan Xin became a gossip couple. And what he really likes is the goddess Li Shushu. With Guan Xin's help, He Xiaoyang finally gets closer and closer to his dream lover, but he also gradually realizes that he may not be the only one in his heart.
Starting from "To Youth" directed by Zhao Wei in 2013, a wave of campus youth movies has blown up in China, but within a few years, the audience is bored with old-school dramas such as "abortion, derailment, and going abroad". IP+小鲜肉/ The universal formula of flow star = box office has also gradually failed. In youth romance films, domestically produced films seem to be poor at best. But this year's "Out of Order" may bring surprises.
The drama is the most stable triangle relationship. The positioning of the campus romance also allows the film to have enough space to interact with the audience's humorous cells. The cast is also a new generation of actors, but this does not mean zero acting skills. For example, among them, Dong Zijian's performance in recent years is obvious to all audiences. As for how "Take Off the Singles and Get Out of Emergency" interprets the not-uncommon "women help men chase women" routine, it's better to go to the theater to find out!
Davis Okoi is a primatologist who raised a silverback gorilla named George since he was a child. Because of an experimental accident, George mutated into a violent behemoth and wanted to destroy it. At the same time, other animals also had genetic mutations. Our protagonist faces the problem of how to save the world from his friend George.
From the story point of view, children raise "pets", and pet mutations cause catastrophe. Such a model may be a little old-fashioned, but it can also be said to be unsatisfactory. Even the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series that has become popular all over the world is born out of this paradigm. But this time the protagonist was changed to Dawn Johnson. Johnson’s recent work "Game of the Brave: Jungle" is a restart of the classic game, and it is also an action movie that has revived his prestige since the word-of-mouth "Beach Ranger", and this time he wants to bring a cute (At least once cute) The gorilla stepped onto the screen. If you are a rock fan, don’t miss the sparks between him and King Kong/Caesar/Monkey King (Ah! Sorry, take a look~)!
The movie "Insect Story" from the Czech Republic may be one of the most interesting but unpopular movies of the Beijing Film Festival. The director of this film is Yang Shiyunmeier, who has been "mixed" in major European film festivals since the 1960s. This old man is now nearly 90 years old.
"Insect Story" is an experimental film full of surrealism. To some extent, this film combines three major art forms or genres: feature feature film, documentary film, and drama/stage play, recording the main creation In the process of making a movie, it also showed the movie itself, and the movie itself is a story of creating a stage play, so it is a unique layered structure. The movie is also interspersed with just the right music and animation that can be used as a "significant form". At the same time, it will remind you of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" from time to time, and then speculate why the director uses the image of insects. "Insect Story" premiered in Asia, what about the best Czech movies?
The lonely old man Kumagai Moriichi is one of the most famous painters in Japan. "Where there is Kumagai Moriichi" tells the story of the painter who lived in his residence and had not been born in 30 years. The director is Shuichi Okita with a warm style. The heroes and heroines are also inspired by the old Japanese film dramas Yamazaki Nuo and Shu Xilin. The performance of the two seniors in the film is indeed smooth, natural and delicate.
"A Place with Kumagai Shouichi" is slow in pace, has a loose narrative, and is simple and simple. It can even be said that its intention is not to tell a story. In contrast, what is more impressive is the fresh and lyrical picture and atmosphere of the film. With cheerful and cute music and occasional Japanese anime-style humor, just like the two old people who love and respect each other all their lives in the film. However, when you see the end of the film, you will find that the film may take culture and technology, tradition and modernity, human and nature into consideration from the beginning, in order to enlighten the audience and experience the philosophy of life. Those dreams that you are very adventurous, there is always someone to go crazy with you
"Beloved Syndicate" is directed by Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoa. Alanoa once won the Spanish Goya Award for Best Documentary Film for his "Seeing Not Seeing" with the theme of Doctors Without Borders. This time his new work "Beloved Syndicate" is a crime film about the life of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The script is adapted from a novel by Virginia Valijo. What is interesting is that Valijo is the lover of the big drug lord, and the heroes and heroines Javier Baden and Penelope Cruz in the movie are also husband and wife in real life.
I think this movie should be welcomed by many geeks, because-his hero is Xie Er! However, it is far from the genius role in "The Big Bang Theory". This time Xie Er is a father~ Claire Denise, who also starred in many popular American dramas.
Greg and Alex, who are parents in "Children Jack", discovered that their son Jack is different from other boys. Compared with car toys, he loves princesses and fairy tales. At the same time, the two face children's high Private school tuition is also at a loss. How can this family solve the various problems?
"Children Jack" is warm and moving, and it is regarded by the audience as a textbook for modern parents, because it shows another kind of family education concept that is different from the traditional, and it starts with children, focuses on the relationship between a family of three, and radiates to the entire society. It is even more thought-provoking. Perhaps, in this world, there has never been a rule of who must be and what must be.
The "Beijing Screening" event will be held from April 6th to 22nd
Held in 32 film institutions and universities in Beijing
Exclusive ticketing platform: Taoticket
The 8th Beijing International Film Festival curatorial and publicity
Issac, Team of China Film Archive
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