" Shanghai Nights ", which premiered in 1984, is the pioneering work of Tsui Hark Film Studio, starring Sylvia Chang, Zhong Zhentao and Ye Sianwen. The film tells a love story before and after the Anti-Japanese War in the 1930s. It combines various genres such as song and dance, music and comedy, creating a strong sense of drama and stage in the rampage. Several of the raucous but never messy highlights are excellent. Starring Sylvia Chang attended the on-site exchange. She said that when Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng founded the film studio, they wanted to make some films that were different from those on the market. There were many changes in the restored version, especially the dubbing in different dialects. Tsui Hark also paid special tribute to the film studio. The late songwriter Huang Zhan.
French film master Jean-Luc Godard passed away in 2022. However, due to the large amount of semi-finished materials left behind during his lifetime, his new works have been released one after another in the past two years. "The trailer for the movie "The Fake War" that will never exist" will be released in 2023. And this "Script" also inherits Godard's late thinking on the image itself. In less than 20 minutes, the film uses a variety of materials such as images, books, paintings, and various sounds, and greatly modifies and remakes its original form to express thoughts on time, violence and other propositions in the film. .
In the main competition unit, "The Good Kind", the new work of "The Lobster" and "Poor Thing" director Lanthimos, held its world premiere in the afternoon local time. The film stars Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons and many other Hollywood stars. The 165-minute film consists of three fables, continuing the grotesque and violent style of the previous one. However, so far, the film has received almost no positive reviews from the Chinese-language media, while the English-language media has given generally good but not as good reviews as the previous two films.
American director Paul Schrader has always been a close collaborator of Martin Scorsese. The last time he was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival was way back in 1988. This new work, "Oh Canada," tells the story of a late filmmaker. The film constantly shuttles between memories and filming, and his memory is quietly misaligned with the real scene. However, this loose meta-movie concept does not seem to play its due role in the emotions of the characters and the rhythm of the narrative. The film's premiere reviews were extremely mediocre.
So far, the main competition section of this year's Cannes is a mess. Tomorrow, can Jia Zhangke's new film "The Romantic Generation" turn the tide on Golden Saturday? let us wait and see.
