1905 Film Network News The Zhejiang International Youth Film Week with the theme of "New Youth, New Stories, New Powers" opened on October 30, 2019 in Hangzhou, where the fragrance of Osmanthus fragrans is fragrant. The high-profile work "Spring River Plumbing" also took this film week to return to Hangzhou where the film's story took place for screening. Local film critics and scholars from Hangzhou also came to the scene to have post-screening exchanges with director Gu Xiaogang and other film creators. The director also told many behind-the-scenes stories and creative ideas of many films.
The precise deconstruction of the Chinese-style family, the director, relatives and friends set up an "acting family"
film "Chunjiang Plumbing" is based on the background of "Living in the Fuchun Mountains", telling the family's elderly mother who accidentally became dementia at the birthday banquet, leaving four families facing The story of family love and life test. The film narrates the time clues of the four seasons of "spring, summer, autumn and winter", grafting the artistic concept of traditional Chinese painting into light and shadow, starting from the Fuchun River, and drawing a different kind of Chinese humanistic landscape painting.
The entire cast of "Spring River Plumbing" can be called the "acting family", because the actors in the film are basically relatives and friends around the director. Among them, the eldest of the four brothers plays the role of his uncle, the second is a vendor who delivers fish to the director’s restaurant, the third and fourth are his uncles, and the rogue actor is his uncle. When asked why relatives were invited to perform, the director responded: When writing the script, it was written in accordance with the prototype of the relatives. Only the basis of real characters can show the real feeling of the characters, and thus have a sense of the market. These details are all It contributed to the final vivid and natural effect of the film. The
film is currently two blooming awards seasons at home and abroad. It has successively won the 13th FIRST Youth Film Festival Best Picture, Best Director, German Hamburg International Film Festival "Critics' Choice Award" and other heavyweight awards, and won the 2019 Cannes Film Festival 58th "Film Critics Week" closing film. In addition, the film has also been selected for competitions or screenings at the Asia Pacific Film Awards, Vancouver Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Busan Film Festival, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Singapore Film Festival and other international film festivals. "Spring River Plumbing" was nominated for "Best Medium and Small Cost Feature Film" and "Best Music" at the 32nd China Film Golden Rooster Awards. It can be said that it has a very dazzling report card.
A picture of the city’s southern Ukiyo-e traditional culture supports the film narrative
This Zhejiang International Youth Film Week is a film event co-sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Zhejiang Film Bureau, the China Film Archive, and the China Film Art Research Center . Among them, the special "Emerging First Show · Blockbuster" unit is dedicated to focusing on the vitality and future of an era. The works of this unit are actively created with the core of new power, exploring various themes with a genius attitude, and leading Chinese films to the world , Narrate a unique Chinese story. "Chunjiang Plumbing" is one of the representative works, which slowly unfolds Fuchun River to the world with a slow narrative like a scroll. In the post-screening exchange session, film critic Su Qiqi and scholar Ding Lili attended as special guests, and had a unique dialogue with director Gu Xiaogang of "Spring River Plumbing", producer Huang Xufeng, and editing director Hsinchu. Director
Gu Xiaogang explained that the principles of traditional Chinese painting are the core of the aesthetic system of the entire movie. Not only does it provide support for the filming of the film, the "shared time-space narrative" in the film is also based on the principles of painting, which can not only solve the narrative problem, but also increase the fluidity and richness of the film. From the point of view of editing, editing is done by drawing, thus forming a unique long-scroll montage technique. The same goes for the soundtrack made by Dou Wei, who has always received much attention. As a musician, he has completed the translation and expression of traditional culture from the composition level. The film
nuancedly shows the warm and cold human feelings experienced by an ordinary three-generation family in daily life and the contemporary Chinese market style, telling the most universal and unique Chinese family story. Constructed a complete and unique aesthetic framework. The whole movie is vivid and vibrant, giving people a sense of fullness and infinite meaning.
It is reported that the mainland release of the movie "Spring River Plumbing" is in preparation, so stay tuned.
