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1905 movie network news "Long live the movie!"
At 18: 00 French time on June 3, the official film list was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. Thierry Frémaux, the artistic director, then released a note introducing the overall situation of this year’s film selection.
This year, the global film industry was greatly affected by the epidemic, and the Cannes Film Festival had to be cancelled due to the epidemic.
"Long live the movie! (Viva il cinema! ) "Fumao takes this classic quote by Italian director Ferini as the conclusion, and sends his best wishes to the present and future of the film.
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This year marks the centenary birthday of Ferini and Hou Mai, one of the "Five Tigers of the French New Wave", and the 20th anniversary of Wong Kar-wai’s classic films. Originally, Cannes will hold a series of restoration screening and tribute activities, both online and offline, but now they can’t be seen.
The Cannes Film Festival was originally scheduled to be held from May 12 to 23 this year. After the outbreak of the French epidemic, the film festival was postponed to July, but the French authorities announced that they could not hold large-scale cultural activities in summer. Considering that Venice and Toronto film festivals would be held in the future, Cannes insisted on the cinema screening mode and finally decided to stop.
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Closure does not mean disappearance.
In Cannes in summer, the sea breeze, golden beaches and swaying palm leaves … Although we can’t see the competition on the red carpet this year, we can’t see how many minutes of applause lasted in the movie palace, which film was the highest and lowest score in the field, and who won the Palme d ‘Or award in the end … … However, Cannes still launched a shortlist of 56 new films.
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This is an unprecedented film list.
Unlike previous years, it is no longer divided into main competition unit, non-competition screening, a kind of attention unit, midnight screening and special screening. All 56 films are put into an official unit and uniformly labeled as "Cannes Official Selection".
These selected films are divided into seven categories: loyalists, new visitors, short films, first feature films, documentaries, comedies and cartoons.
Among them, some films will be released in autumn and winter this year, and some will later go to Toronto, Locarno, San Sebastian, new york, Tokyo and other film festivals to participate in competitions or screenings.


Cannes is closed. What’s the point of this film list?
Stamping 56 new films is not only to improve the quality of these films, but also to promote their better performance in the international sales market.
"Push the film to the center of the world, and we will witness the powerful existence and amazing vitality of the film!" Fu Mao said that this is the mission of Cannes Film Festival as always.
Is the film festival "explosive" coming?
On the Cannes stage, Chinese films are still not absent.
Last year, there were equal teams, and this year, two teams were selected — — And.
"Band of Seven" is directed by Sammo Hung, Xu Anhua, Tan Jiaming, Yuan Heping, Du Qifeng, Lin Lingdong and Tsui Hark, and seven big-name directors in China Hong Kong film circle.

The film was successfully approved at the end of last year. According to the synopsis of the story, it is a collection of short films paying tribute to "film", which records stories belonging to different generations with film, similar to "assorted films" such as "I love you in Paris".
The original name of Band of Seven is Eight and a Half, which was announced as early as 2015. Eight and a Half comes from Ferini’s classic of the same name. The title refers to both the number of films directed by Ferini and the ninth film that Guido, the hero of the film, has not finished shooting.
The name "Eight and a Half" has a misty complex, and it also points to eight directors. Originally, John Woo was involved, but due to physical reasons, the film had to be renamed. In addition, Lin Lingdong, the director, died in 2018, and some of his films were finished before his death. The Band of Seven also became Lin Lingdong’s posthumous work.
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There are both Hong Kong film veterans and mainland star faces in the film list. Wei Shujun, the young director’s first feature film, "Wild Horse with a mane", successfully won the official entry mark of Cannes.
This is the second time that Wei Shujun became attached to Cannes. In 2018, he won the special honor award of Cannes short film competition unit for his short film.
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"Yanbian Teenager" shows the realistic creative style and concerns about the theme of teenagers’ growth. This feature film also continues to focus on the story of teenagers’ youth, starring Zhou You and Zheng Yingchen, telling the story of Akun, who is about to graduate, whose life has changed after he met his second-hand jeep.
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In terms of foreign films, several popular films were selected without accident, keeping the basic disk of Cannes.
The "Loyalist" category refers to the frequent visitors who have been selected to Cannes. Wes anderson’s is the hottest, and Hollywood is full of stars. It was very likely to appear as the opening film.
According to the official introduction, this is a love letter dedicated to 20th century journalists, with three story lines. alexandre desplat praised wes anderson as the best in his career. The film is also likely to be shown at the Toronto Film Festival later.
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A familiar face from Cannes and Naomi Kawase, a Japanese female directors, was selected for the "N th time". The new film "Dawn is Coming" tells the story of a couple who can’t have children adopting an early pregnant female student, and will explore the meaning of "becoming a mother" and "mother herself" from multiple perspectives.
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Another "Cannes lineal", French female directors Ma? Wenn’s "Reaching the True Love" can’t be ignored. She won the jury award in Cannes for "Police Officer" and the romantic film was also shortlisted in the main competition in Cannes and won the best actress award.
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Lars von Trier’s good brother, Danish director thomas vinterberg, one of the initiators of the "Dogma 95" film aesthetic movement, was selected as the "Alcohol Plan" eight years after he violated the Cannes Film Festival. The hero is still mads mikkelsen, the "uncle" in the old work, telling the story of high school teachers’ persistent drunkenness experiment and discussing the middle-aged crisis.
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Ou Rong’s "Summer of’ 85" is like another film, which leads the audience back to the summer of 1985 and follows the growth time of two teenagers with retro music, cheerful dance and heat wave in the sun.
Prior to this, Ou Rong was shortlisted for the main competition unit in Cannes for three times, and all of them failed. Although I was selected this time, I regret that I can’t compete for the award.
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Steve mcqueen, the British director of Twelve Years a Slave, brought two series movies, Lover’s Rock and Mangrove. These two works are from the first two episodes of the BBC series "Little Axe", which was originally planned to be six episodes and five hours long, and finally expanded into five feature films, focusing on the lives of the first generation of British West Indian immigrants.
The category of "new arrivals" refers to the works of directors who were shortlisted for Cannes for the first time. Among them, the works of British director Francis Lee have gained a lot of attention, and Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan performed together, and the casting configuration is very eye-catching.
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In terms of feature film debut, in addition to the China film Wild Horse with a mane, the directorial debut of Viggo Mortenson, starring Aragon, is also worth mentioning. The film premiered in Sundance and received good reviews. Variety describes that mortensen’s film style is very similar to Eastwood’s later works.
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If the Cannes Film Festival is not cancelled this year, we can also see the historic picture of Pixar and Ghibli, two world animation brands competing together.
Soul is the second work released by Pixar after "1/2 Magic" this year. The quality of "1/2 Magic" is not satisfactory, and more fans place their hopes on this musical animation.
Soul is created by a team, and his creative concept is similar to Inside Out+.This paper discusses the meaning of "death" and "soul".

On the other side is Miyazaki Hayao’s son Goro Miyazaki’s animated film Aya and the Witch, which was personally supervised by Miyazaki Hayao and Ghibli’s first full 3D+CG animated feature film. The original author’s children’s novel of the same name is adapted as a blueprint, telling the story of Aya, a young girl, who was adopted by a mean witch.
For a long time, Goro Miyazaki can’t escape the comparison between him and his father. In those days, his feature-length debut "The Legend of Earthsea" suffered a lot of bad reviews, which made him once devastated. Can he hold his head high and create his own light this time?

What’s the wind blowing in Cannes this year?
In the past, the number of short-listed films in the main competition unit of Cannes was about 21. Judging from these officially selected films, according to the standards of previous years, less than ten films could be selected for the main competition unit.
On the one hand, some films that can wait until next year will choose to participate in the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 and launch an impact on the awards.
Including Leo Calaque’s song and dance films with adam driver and marion cotillard, paul verhoeven’s nun film Our Lady, Bruno Dumont’s It’s Half a Sunny Morning and Serebrennikov’s Flu in Petrov.
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On the other hand, some popular films have not been made or are not loyal enough. Because Cannes cooperated with Venice to skip tickets, they are likely to run out to attend the Venice Film Festival in September, the Berlin Film Festival in early 2021 or other film festivals.
For example, Memory, directed by Ildikó Enyedi, hit the rocks by Sophia Coppola, Bergman Island by Mia Hansen Love, Three Stories by nanni moretti, a frequent visitor to Cannes, and the spy’s wife by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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Compared with the past, this is a film list that has been greatly discounted in terms of heat and topic, but it has also created many new records.
According to reports, this year, a total of 2,067 films signed up for the official unit of the Cannes Film Festival, and the number of registrations exceeded 2,000 for the first time. In 2010, the number was only 1,665.
The range of participating countries and regions is also expanding. This year, films from 147 countries and regions signed up, compared with 138 in 2019, an increase of 9.
Among 532 films directed by women, 16 films directed by women were selected, which is more than before, indicating that the quality of female directors’s works has been improved.
At the same time, Cannes also began to pay attention to comedy types, and specially recommended five French comedies in the film list. Whether this number will become more next year can be further seen.
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However, the biggest feature of this film list is the support for new directors, with 15 directors’ first films accounting for 26.7% of the total, exceeding the previous data.
Whether it’s because this year’s popular films and the works of direct directors gave up their seats, Houlang people have more opportunities to enter the room and make their mark, especially during the epidemic, which is more encouraging for these newcomers.

"We have never had so many filmmakers selected for the official unit for the first time, which proves the vitality of the film and the investment and support of the film festival for future films," Fu Mao said.
Cannes Film Festival is destined to write a short story in 2020, and the appearance of this official shortlist has brought comfort and vitality to filmmakers and fans. As Fumao said, "Le cinéma est vivant", the spirit of Cannes has not disappeared, and it still exists this year.
Waiting for May next year, the lights will go out, the curtain will open, the music will ring, the screen of the movie palace will flash, and the Cannes Film Festival will officially return!