Day11 in Cannes： Ceylon focuses on the relationship between father and son.
Special feature of 1905 film network On the 11th day of Cannes Film Festival, all 21 films of the main competition were finally shown. The three films that appeared on the last day were LGBTQ movies from France, Russian director Sergey Dvortsevoy’s and Ceylon’s last-minute shortlist.
The day before the Palme d ‘Or was officially announced, the "One Concern" unit took the lead in winning the prize. Bi Gan’s works, which had caused extensive discussion before, were not harvested, and the grand prize was won by Swedish fantasy movies.
Time: 8: 30am-9: 50am/11: 00am-12: 40am.
Venue: Lumiere Hall of Film Palace & bunuel Hall of Film Palace.
Retro interpretation of love in "Stab in the Heart" & Color "Little Guy" is exhausting.
Among the films in this main competition, "Stab in the Heart" is a relatively large category. The main characters of the film are a lesbian couple making same-sex movies and their LGBTQ friends. They exaggerated the abnormal killings they encountered in the form of images, and under the picture full of retro flavor and extreme eroticism, "Stab in the Heart" actually tells the story of two extremely pure love relationships, one is a lesbian couple who fell in love but failed to stay together in the film, and the other is two little boys in where will you go who were brutally separated by their father in the movie. Compared with the simple plot, The Stab in the Heart is more like an experimental tribute to the shadows.
There are "rumors" that Ayka, the heroine of "Little Guy", is likely to launch an impact on the best actress award, and the film continues the consistent style of Russian films at international film festivals — — Focus on social problems and endless suffering of the bottom people. Ayka, who just gave birth, not only has no job, but also has debts to repay. Throughout the film, the director led the audience to "bear" Ayka’s predicament with a strong sense of documentary camera language, and experienced her double physical and psychological pain. Tragedy is real, but as a film work, endless repetition makes people feel distressed about the role and endless fatigue and aesthetic fatigue. In short, it is another work with more practical significance than artistic expression.
Time: 4: 30pm
Venue: Debussy Hall, Film Palace
Swedish film won the "One Concern" unit award. Bi Gan’s "The Earth" is unfortunately zero.
On the day before the official closing of the film festival, the "One Concern" unit announced the results of various awards. As the chairman of the jury of this unit, actor Benicio Del Toro spoke first at the award ceremony. He evaluated the 18 finalists as winners in a sense, and the excellent quality of each work shocked several judges. However, they still need to select five works to share five awards.
Previously, Bi Gan’s "The Last Night of the Earth" was widely discussed after the screening, and it was also highly anticipated by domestic media and fans. Unfortunately, however, the film did not win any awards that day. A focus unit award was won by the Swedish fantasy film Border. In addition, The Girl, which was highly praised during the Cannes Film Festival, won the best performance award. Victor, the leading actor, plays a deformed ballet dancer in the film. Only 16-year-old, he is still in school today. The director received the award for him and expressed the hope that this role would express his understanding and support for this kind of group.
Time: 8: 00 pm-11: 08 pm
Venue: Debussy Hall, Film Palace
Ceylon’s Wild Pear Tree focuses on father and son and the script of the times is solid and informative.
Ceylon’s new work Wild Pear Tree, which was added to the main competition unit at the last minute, was scheduled for the last screening on the last day. The film is more than 3 hours long, which is the most shortlisted film in this year’s Palme d ‘Or. Fortunately, compared with the last one that won the Palme d ‘Or, the appreciation of Wild Pear Tree has improved a lot, and the script is absolutely solid, but the intensive lines bring so much information that the three editors all sigh: these three hours seem to have finished reading a book (with English subtitles) in the cinema.
"Wild Pear Tree" has designed several important scenes with the hero as the dot, and each scene contains a lot of dialogues. Through these life-oriented lines, Ceylon shows the personality of the younger generation in Turkey and the confusion they face, as well as the huge "generation gap" between the young and middle-aged generations: the boy in Grade Two shows "blind self-confidence" when facing famous writers, which makes people feel angry and can’t help but smile for his childish courage; The scene of middle-aged people who have successfully dropped out of high school and "taught" young people who have received higher education but are still confused in society with their own social experience also makes the audience’s empathy particularly real.
There is no doubt, however, that the overall plot line running through Wild Pear Tree is still the relationship between father and son. Two men with different personalities and egoism maintain an uneasy relationship in most parts of the film. My father, who has been working hard, always has a restless heart, while my son, who thinks he has grown up, has been silently remembering his childhood teachings in his heart while looking down on his father. Both of them are persistent enough about what they like.
My son’s first novel "Wild Pear Tree" became an opportunity for the relationship between father and son to break the ice. When everyone, including his closest mother, didn’t finish reading this book, his father had already learned the contents of "Wild Pear Tree" by heart. The film also completes the topic in this part: in fact, fathers and sons are like the fruits of wild pear trees. They look unpleasant on the outside, but they taste delicious.