Chapter 539 Closing Ceremony

[The main creators of "The Killing", which has been ranked first in the program book, did not appear on the closing red carpet! ]

[The Japanese film "The Mediocre" was invited to the closing awards ceremony! ]

[The Chinese films "A Simple Life" and "The Mountain and the Sea" appeared on the closing red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, while the Taiwanese film "Seediq Bale" missed Venice! ]

["Faust", "Inland", "Alps" and "Wuthering Heights" were all invited to attend the closing ceremony! ]

On the afternoon of September 11, the closing red carpet of the Venice International Film Festival began.

As soon as each crew walked on the red carpet, the news would quickly spread around the world.

After all, there is an unspoken rule among the three major European film festivals that only crews that will win awards will be invited to attend the closing awards ceremony.

It is also because of this that this year's Venice International Film Festival once again had something that made all the predictors feel overwhelmed.

Before the closing ceremony, the film "The Killing", which was ranked first in the program book and had been rumored to be Kate Winslet's best actress before the awards ceremony, did not attend today.

Obviously, "The Killing", which was considered a favorite by the program book, has lost the chance to compete for the final award.

Sure enough, it is really difficult to accurately predict the three major European awards.

The film "The Deadly Gold" from Hong Kong Island, China, was not invited to attend the closing ceremony and became the loser of the Chinese team.

No one can know the preferences of each jury member.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to paying attention to the main competition unit, the media on the scene today are most concerned about another film "Sun Li and the Poet" starring mainland actor Zhao Tao and Hollywood actor Labo Serbedez and directed by Italian director Andrea Segia.

This film was shortlisted for the Venice Day Competition Unit. Wu Yuan also attended the world premiere of "Sun Li and the Poet" in Venice.

It was so noisy that almost all the film critics and media on the scene in Venice attended.

There is no other reason, Zhao Tao is the darling of Venice!

Although Zhao Tao is not very famous in China, her achievements in the international arena are really high.

Six movies starring her have been shortlisted for the Venice International Film Festival.

In 1999, Zhao Tao was selected by Jia Zhangke to star in the movie "Platform" and entered the entertainment industry. The two have since started a long-term cooperation.

The two are almost mutually beneficial. They got married directly after working together for eleven years.

"Platform", "Ren Xiaoyao", "World", "Still Life in Three Gorges", "Twenty-four Cities", "Love on the River", "Legend of the Sea", "Ten Thousand Waves" and other movies she starred in, although most of them are not well-known.

But each of these movies was either shortlisted for the competition unit of Cannes or the competition unit of Venice.

Venice's main competition unit, Horizon unit, Cannes' main competition unit, and Un Certain Regard unit are all frequent visitors to her.

Even her first starring TV series in 2009, "Big Life", was shortlisted for the Magnolia Award, the highest award for domestic TV series.

If nothing unexpected happens, she will win a lot of international film festivals in the future and become a judge of major international film festivals including the Oscars.

Unfortunately, even so, Zhao Tao's most famous identity will only be Jia Zhangke's wife.

This is the situation of actors in art films now. No matter how well they act, they are well-known in the art circle and become the representative of Chinese actors in international film art, they have no fame and influence to the public.

There are not many audiences in China who are willing to watch art films, so naturally no one will pay attention to Zhao Tao, the queen of art.

At today's closing ceremony, she took Jia Zhangke's arm and accompanied him on the red carpet as Jia Zhangke's wife.

More than an hour ago, Zhao Tao announced her marriage to Jia Zhangke on Weibo in China and released the wedding photos of the two taken in Venice, Italy.

These wedding photos were just taken two days ago, and Wu Yuan personally came to the scene to send his blessings.

Looking at the two people's sweet appearance, Wu Yuan sighed a little. It's a pity for Zhao Tao's sister-in-law.

She should not be remembered by the domestic public only as "Mrs. Jia Zhangke".

She is a very, very good, internationally renowned actor!

Soon, the red carpet of the closing ceremony ended.

The jury of the main competition unit headed by Wu Yuan and the jury of the horizon unit headed by Jia Zhangke began to award the awards.

Still continuing the boring tradition of the European Film Festival.

One by one, the judges came on stage to award the awards.

First, in the horizon unit, the debut work "Traces of Japanese Pirates" directed by mainland director Xu Haofeng was successfully shortlisted, but unfortunately missed the award in the end.

Even though Xu Haofeng and Jia Zhangke were classmates of the same year and different departments at the Beijing Film Academy, he could not give Xu Haofeng an internal award.

In the entire horizon unit, no Chinese film won the award.

And in the main competition unit, the real heavyweight awards came.

After the festival chairman Mark Mueller personally presented the Lifetime Achievement Award, the main course was served.

Facing the expectant eyes of dozens of crew members and hundreds of media reporters, Todd Haynes, the judge of the main competition unit, took the lead and presented the Best Newcomer Award.

"The winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Best Newcomer Award is——"

"Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido for "The Mediocre"!"

The crew of "The Mediocre" from Japan jumped up with joy and regret, surrounded the two young and immature leading actors and cheered.

These two Japanese new actors are 19 and 17 years old, and they are indeed young.

However, after "The Mediocre" won the Best Newcomer Award, it also meant that they had almost no chance of winning other awards. This result also made the director and screenwriter a little regretful.

The two new actors were very happy. They cried and laughed on the stage and said a lot of acceptance speeches.

Well, Wu Yuan, who was watching backstage, didn't understand a word. Whether it was Japanese or their Japanese English, it was too difficult for Wu Yuan to understand.

After the Best Newcomer Award was awarded, the Best Debut Award, Best Screenplay Award, Best Technical Contribution (Photography) Award and other awards were also awarded one after another.

These are relatively unimportant awards. In the end, the Greek film "Alps" won the Best Screenplay Award, the Italian film "LA BAS" won the Best Debut Award, and the British film "Wuthering Heights" won the Best Photography Award. The cake was divided very evenly.

At this point, only the Best Actor and Best Director, the Jury Silver Lion Award, and the most important Golden Lion Award have not been awarded.

Italian actress Alba Rohrwach, a member of the jury, walked up to the podium with a card.

She was going to present the Best Actress Award.

"The winner of the Best Actress Award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival is——"

"Congratulations, Deanie Ip from "A Simple Life"!" (End of this chapter)