On the evening of May 24, local time, the Cannes Film Festival held a commemorative event to celebrate its 75th anniversary. The organizer invited more than 100 guests from the film and television field from all over the world to join, including many senior filmmakers who have won various Cannes awards in the past. It is the most star-studded celebration in Cannes in recent years.

Filmmaker leaves family portrait at Cannes 75th anniversary event

Filmmakers celebrate 75th anniversary of Cannes
That evening, artistic director Thierry Fumaux and outgoing chairman Pierre Lescourt officiated in the Lumiere Room for a commemorative event, and celebrities they named, including Mexican director Guillermo del Toro , French director Michel Azanavisius, Italian director Paul Sorrentino, French actor Isabelle Huppert, Danish actor Max Mikkels, German actor Diana Kruger , American director Ethan Cohen, Canadian director David Cronenberg, American actor Viggo Mortensen, Belgian director Dane Brothers, French director Claude Lerouche and others all came to the stage, and finally stayed behind. A big happy photo. After the family photo shoot, Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, on a whim, also dragged fellow countryman Del Tolo to sing a song by José Alfredo Jiménez, the godfather of Mexican pop music, on the stage. The famous song "She" (Ella).

Gael García Bernal (left) and Jill Dara sing a sing-along at the commemoration

The commemoration was followed by a screening in the Lumiere Hall of the exhibiting film "The Innocents", written, directed and starred by Louis Garrel, which is his fourth directorial work. Born into a film family and under the age of 40, he became well-known to the global audience for his performance in "Dream of Paris" in 2003. Later, he also went behind the scenes to create his directorial debut "Two Friends" in 2015. , and also participated in the final selection of the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

"The Innocents" directed and starred by Louis Garrel (left)

In "The Innocents", he played the widower Abel (viewers who have seen Garrel's three previous films should have a good laugh when they hear the name, because the male protagonists in those three films are called Abel) Panic when he finds out that his mother is about to remarry, because the man who will be his stepfather has just been released from prison, but seems to be well-off. Worried that the man would put his mother in danger, Abel turned into an amateur detective and vowed to find out the background of his future stepfather.
Surprisingly, the story came from Garrel's own experience. His biological father, Philippe Garrel, is a famous French director who won the Best New Director Award at Cannes in 1984; his mother, Brigitte Sy, was an actress, and later she became a director. the director. Louis Garrel's parents divorced when he was a child. Somehow, his mother met a prisoner named Michelle. Not only did he fall in love with him, but he also went to the prison to marry him behind bars.
Directors discuss the crisis and future of cinema
At the beginning of the 75th anniversary of Cannes, Fu Mao said excitedly, "In the future, we need everyone here to work harder to bring movies back to everyone's lives after the epidemic. Movies are still alive, and movies are forever. I won't die." His remarks are believed to be the vision of every film festival attendee, but at a director's symposium held on the afternoon of May 24, del Toro and Azanavisi were Sorrento, Costa-Gavras, Le Roouche, Gaspar Noai and Sorrentino are talking about the fact that traditional cinema is in an unprecedented crisis.
"What will the future of movies be like, I think there may be various conjectures. I only know that this road is not feasible at present, because it is not sustainable." Del Toro said pessimistically, "In many ways, this set is almost out of date." In the eyes of the famous director, who has won the Venice Golden Lion for "The Shape of Water" but has not yet entered the Palme d'Or in Cannes, the film has now gone At the crossroads, it is as if the sound film appeared in the 1920s, facing both challenges and opportunities. "I think we are facing a sea change. It is not only the battle between streaming media and the big screen that is changing, but the relationship between the film itself and the audience is actually changing. We filmmakers should continue to maintain the status quo. Or try to be bolder?"

Del Dara's new work "Pinocchio" is invested and produced by Netflix

The animation "Pinocchio" that Del Toro is currently producing is funded by the streaming media giant Netflix. For this new film, he had previously sought cooperation with some traditional film and television companies, but he failed to reach an ideal consensus. In this regard, he expressed his gratitude to Netflix for the trust and support of the sponsor, but del Toro admitted that he still had doubts about whether the film invested by streaming media could be seen by enough people after the filming. After all, for a filmmaker like him, it is important that the work can be made, but it is also eager to meet the audience in the cinema with the results of his hard work.
Regarding Del Dara's question, the 85-year-old Le Roouche was very confident: "I firmly believe that the cinema has a bright future, and the cinema will have the last laugh. At least it is difficult for me to watch a movie on my mobile phone. ."
In addition to the problem of the way of watching movies, what makes Del Dara, a fanatical director, anxious, is the gradual demise of the traditional film carrier. For a long time after the birth of film, film was its only carrier. If the audience wants to see a certain movie, in addition to buying tickets to enter the theater at its premiere, once it misses the schedule and wants to see it again, they have to wait for it to re-enter the theaters someday in the future. However, not all films are fortunate enough to have this opportunity for re-screening and re-screening. In most cases, only classic business cards are possible. In the 1970s, video tapes entered thousands of households, which also allowed ordinary audiences to enjoy various film and television works from the comfort of their own homes without having to wait for the re-screening in theaters. In the following decades, we have experienced the emergence of LD, VCD, DVD, and Blu-ray discs one after another. Their mediums are different, but they are essentially the substantive carriers of films.
In the past few years, with the boom of streaming media, it seems that any movie can be found on the Internet, and the video disc has almost completely faded out of people's lives. In this regard, Del Toro, who has loved watching movies since he was a child, expressed his concerns because of the fact that not all movies can be found on the Internet, and if a movie is made, in case it fails to get any streaming media Favor, it was possible to release video tapes and DVDs in the past, and now it may disappear forever. “Movies are disappearing every day, faster than at any time in history. As a result of the popularity of streaming media, you think you can control what movies you want to watch, but in fact that is all the streaming media pushes to you based on big data. Yours is what they have prepared for you, and it is up to them to decide what movie we watch." Del Dara said earnestly, "We can't just think about ourselves, but also about the future, thinking about the future. Think about the people who come after, think about what kind of movies we can leave to them."
He also said that he is particularly disgusted with the terms "content" and "pipeline" that streaming media loves to use. "Those are words that should only be used when describing oil and sewage, not in art, not in movies. Because it's for something that's not permanent, something that can be washed away . But in my opinion, a beautiful film work that tells a story with sound and picture is something comparable to a good novel or a superb painting."