"The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers" is Jia Zhangke's eighth feature film, and it is also his fourth trip to Cannes.

The last movie "Destiny" was not released in China, and the theme was too violent. This time in "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers", Jia Zhangke is preparing to have a warmth.

Jia Zhangke is one of the famous Chinese directors in Europe. He once won the Venice Golden Lion Award.

However, in recent years, it seems that it has become the direct descendant of Cannes.

Of course, Cannes is also very good to him, making one movie into another!

(Four times shortlisted for the main competition unit and won the Best Screenwriter Award)

But it is probably because of this that this guy's movies in recent years seem to be somewhat sporty in film festivals. Of course, it may also be limited by domestic censorship and some of them have lost their aura.

This is even more true for "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers".

The first part of the movie is amazing, the second part starts to fool, and the third part is simply unwatchable!

After all, Jia Zhangke is not the ignorant boy who dared to take it to participate in foreign film festivals after being banned after filming "Xiao Wu".

He himself is already a banner figure of the sixth generation of directors and is also one of the members of the Directors Association. To put it bluntly, he is already a member of the system.

It is impossible to make a stunning movie around the world again!

When you are in the system, it is always inappropriate to criticize the system.

Moreover, Jia Zhangke has a bad reputation on the Internet. Many people say that his movies are for exposing the dark side of China and for foreigners to fantasize, so he won the award!

Not to mention whether this sentence is correct or not, Jia Zhangke's own movies do give foreigners a lot of misunderstandings. They think that China is still as poor and backward as it is shown in the movies. This is an indisputable fact.

Shen Lin doesn’t like directors like Jia Zhangke, so he doesn’t like it very much.

In fact, the crew of "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers" is the same plane as the crew of "Carol".

Shen Lin was just sleeping on the plane and did not notice the crew of "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers", but Jia Zhangke saw him.

He saw Shen Lin and his wife sleeping soundly, and Gong Li not far away. He was originally worried about whether to say hello, but in the end he gave up.

After all, he and Shen Lin nodded and were not even acquaintance!

When getting off the plane, Gong Li saw Jia Zhangke and his group, and took the initiative to greet him. Shen Lin was sleepy and missed the meeting again.

There are many actors in the entire crew of "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers", including Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Dong Zijian, and Zhang Aijia.

Since Jia Zhangke won the Golden Lion Award, he has a high reputation in the circle and the actors he has launched are also well-known.

"The Destiny of Heaven" uses Jiang Wu and Wang Baobao, and this time, "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers" uses Zhang Yi and Dong Zijian.

In fact, he himself also hopes to gain recognition from mainstream audiences, so he appeared in Han Shao's "The Future of Love".

Unfortunately, mainstream audiences' impression of him has been deeply rooted - a director who likes to expose China's shortcomings to Westerners to show them to satisfy their compassion.

The only one among these people who have a good relationship with Shen Lin is Dong Zijian.

...

Jia Zhangke and his group were also blocked at the airport. It was probably the same as Shen Lin, but they didn't expect it to rain suddenly.

I hurriedly called the hotel I stayed and asked them to arrange a pick-up and drop-off. Then I saw Shen Lin and Zhao Liying who were left alone.

"Hey, Director Shen!"

Dong Zijian finally saw Shen Lin and ran over first.

Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao also followed, and Zhang Yi and Zhang Aijia naturally followed.

"Xiao Dong, why are you here?"

Chen Lin heard the footsteps and quickly turned his head, then saw Dong Zijian, feeling like he met an old friend in a foreign land. He was about to pull him to chat for a few words when Jia Zhangke and his group appeared in front of Shen Lin.

The latter hurriedly greeted him: "Director Jia, Teacher Zhao Tao, Director Zhang, Zhang Yi, Hello."

"Hello, Director Chen Lin."

Jia Zhangke greeted Chen Lin with a smile.

"You guys are... by the way, look at my memory, "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers" is right!"

It was really not Chen Lin who pretended to behave himself. He could not bear it even though he had been flying for six hours in a row. It was normal that he couldn't remember it for a while.

"…What did Director Chen do when he comes to Cannes this time? Or should he help the platform?"

Chen Lin was covered up very tightly about the news of "Carol" attending Cannes, and there has been no news of the news until now. It is normal for Jia Zhangke to not know.

"The production company has always been responsible for selling movies. I am just a director and I don't participate in these."

Chen Lin obviously didn't want to talk about the reason why he went to Cannes, and Jia Zhangke couldn't say anything.

In fact, Jia Zhangke already had a premonition that Chen Lin would participate in Cannes this time, and there was a very likely new works to be released, after all, he had seen Gong Li before.

But in recent times, the overwhelming publicity has been "Operation Mekong".

Could he want to take this "Operation Mekong" to participate in Cannes?

I have never heard of Chen Lin’s works in Cannes competition.

Could it be "Carol"?

But before March was launched, Jia Zhangke asked tentatively, but Chen Lin did not respond.

Then, the atmosphere fell into an awkward situation.

The main reason is that Chen Lin is really in a state, otherwise he would be able to praise Jia Zhangke and call him on the spot!

"Director Jia, you are here first. I'll talk to Xiao Dong for a few words."

After a few simple words of exchange, Chen Lin realized that he and Jia Zhangke were too disagreeable and were not a member of the same place.

Jia Zhangke was born in Fenyang, Jin, and Chenlin was a standard imperial capital.

After graduating from the Film Academy, Jia Zhangke began to tinker with movies. He was good at long shots and handheld dVs to portray characters. He liked black and white pictures. Even if he won the Golden Lion Award in his thirties, he was disliked by the officials. Chen Lin was completely opposite to him. He had never been to college. Although he had attended film courses, his movies always cater to the public's aesthetics. Compared with artistic value, he was more willing to pursue box office returns. By the way, Chen Lin became famous at a young age and has now almost become the official spokesperson!

There is no common language between the two.

It's normal to not be able to talk together.

...

Let’s talk to Dong Zijian about the situation of "The Monster Hunt"!

Chen Lin and Dong Zijian have always maintained good contact.

Although he doesn't like Wang Jinghua, he has to admire that this first agent is indeed good at teaching his children.

Dong Zijian can definitely be called one of the very few young actors who are willing to calm down and think about their acting skills.

This can be seen from his selection of scripts.

The debut work, "Youth School", although the box office is not very good, it has a good reputation. It is one of the few conscience-making productions in youth-themed movies!

Then, he took on movies such as "Young Babylon", "Terrain", "Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers", and "Riding the Wind and Waves", with vision, acting skills, and resources.

Chen Lin is very optimistic about Xiao Dong’s future exhibition!

"Xiao Dong, "The Monster Hunt" is scheduled to be released on July 16th? What do you think?"

"Is July? Summer time?"
Chapter completed!