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Chapter 618 Golden Lion Award and Comments
After listening to Chairman Bernardo's words, the other seven judges looked at each other and started to fill in the cards in front of them.

In fact, everyone is very clear in their hearts. After so many days of watching films and seminars, they basically have an idea of ​​how the awards should be judged.

But they also knew what Chairman Bernardo meant. The other party attached great importance to the Italian film "The Ring Expressway", and hoped that everyone would rate this as the highest Golden Lion Award.

Of course, Bernardo didn't say it clearly, but he kept proposing to award "Starting Line" the Silver Lion Award and the Best Actor and Actress Award, so the implication was obvious!

According to the rules of the Venice Film Festival, once "Starting Line" wins other awards, the highest Golden Lion Award must be judged on other films.

The seven judges knew what Bernardo wanted in their hearts, but few of them wanted to obey him for so long.

If the standards of several award-winning films are similar, it doesn't matter if they are favored, after all, it is an Italian film festival.

However, after these days of screenings, audiences who have watched "Starting Line" have a high evaluation of this film. Besides ordinary audiences, journalists from film newspapers and magazines from various countries who came to the film festival also commented in the same way, not to mention their professional judges?

It may be precisely because of this reason that Bernardo did not want to open his mouth to propose that "The Ring Expressway" be awarded the Golden Lion Award, so that after the film festival ended, when the media interviewed the jury, he could also say that the entire jury made the decision. s Choice.

In this situation where the entire jury did not reach a unified opinion, the judges began to fill in their own awards.

After 5 minutes, everyone wrote their opinions and handed the results to Chairman Bernardo.

After Bernardo looked at them one by one, his brows frowned, and he didn't say what he wanted to say in the end...

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The next day soon arrived, on the night of September 9th, the red carpet for the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival began.

Compared with the opening day, the popularity is obviously much lower, and the stars are no longer shining like before.

Movies that have not been nominated for awards will naturally not send people to participate. Even for some of the shortlisted movies, those who do not have confidence in themselves, or for other reasons, there are many people who did not come to the awards ceremony.

For the domestic media, Zhou Xia and Tang Tang, Jiang Wen and Zhou Yun walked on the red carpet, which was enough for them to publish some manuscripts and articles.

In addition to this night, Wanwan director Cai Mingliang took the main creator of "Outing" on the red carpet; Eva walked the red carpet in a gorgeous dress; Anna's white dress is beautiful; Iranian actress Goshfi appeared on the red carpet blowing bubbles, which really attracted attention and so on.

In the end, of course, Bernardo led Jiang Wen and other seven judges from different countries onto the red carpet...

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In the Grand Theater of Venice where the film festival awards were presented, Zhou Xia, Tangtang, Zhang Zhao and others sat in the third row of seats, watching the wonderful Italian singing and dancing on stage, but in their hearts they were looking forward to the start of the film festival awards ceremony.

Earlier in the morning, Zhou Xia and Jiang Wen had already inquired about it. The other party did not disclose the specific award, but asked him to prepare a thank-you speech. This made Zhou Xia, Tangtang and others look forward to it even more.

In another time and space, Zhou Xia didn't have much impression of this Venice Film Festival. At most, he remembered the winners of the Golden Lion Award and the Silver Lion Award, but he didn't know anything else.

The awards followed until Best Actor went to Semi Spano for the male lead in "Miss Violence" and Best Actress went to Irina Corta for the lead role in "The Flowers of Palermo" , Zhou Xia was already a little restless.

According to this rhythm, there are only three possibilities for "Starting Line", winning the Silver Lion Award or the Golden Lion Award, and the most unlikely is the Grand Jury Award.

Both Tangtang and Zhou Xia were nominated for Best Actor and Actor, especially when the Best Actress was announced, she once nervously grabbed Zhou Xia's hand, pinching his palm a little sorely.

At this moment, after the announcement of the award she was most concerned about, her whole body was obviously depressed, so she could only pretend to be calm and wait for the next award with Zhou Xia.

"The Best Director of the 70th Venice Film Festival is "The Ring Highway". Congratulations to Anfranco Rossi, he spent three years shooting a real world in the form of a documentary, and spent another 8 Monthly clips that combine Italian realism and documentary in a unique loop structure that connects the past and the future of the characters and the city, bringing together aristocrats in the 1930s, actors in the 60s and 70s, eel fishermen, homeless people , a doctor, a delivery man, a botanist, and make this film…”

The judges' comments on the movie were still playing on the big screen, Zhou Xia and Tangtang held hands tightly, and did not hear the rest of the words.

Both of them knew what it meant to win the Silver Lion Award for "Looping Highway", which basically meant that "Starting Line" won the highest Venice Golden Lion Award!

Sure enough, as the next jury award was announced to be won by "Outing", everything became clear!
Zhou Xia was calm on the surface, but in his heart he was waiting with great anticipation for the jury's final announcement and comments on his film.

He wants to hear how this international A-level professional film festival views his first literary film, whether they understand the contemporary Chinese society he filmed and the education issues involved.

The waiting time is always long.

After the jury award, there was another song performance by an Italian star. It lasted about 10 minutes, and Zhou Xia and Tangtang waited anxiously, but in the end they finally got the result they wanted.

The winner of the lottery was Jiang Wen, the only director from China among the seven judges. After the lottery was drawn, he began to read in Chinese: "The film that won the Golden Lion Award at the 70th Venice Film Festival is "Starting Line".", and then The Italian host translated his words.

Although they had made preparations earlier, Zhou Xia and Tangtang excitedly stood up and hugged each other as a celebration, and then Zhou Xia, her and other main creators, as well as Zhang Zhao, walked up to the awards platform.

At this time, the two hosts have already invited the award presenters. It is Bernardo, the chairman of the jury, and Alberto Barbara, the official chairman of the Venice Film Festival.

At this time, the jury's comments on "Starting Line" also sounded on the big screen.

"The starting line uses a unique perspective, through two generations, three families, cross-narrative, go hand in hand, through the problem of children's education, from small to large, with the family as the unit, describes the 30 years of modern China's changes, with the The process of social changes, changes in people's ideas and ideas, and changes in ideas about education is full of drama and philosophy...

The young couple Zhang Zhe, the hero, and Xia Xiaomi, the heroine, support each other and try their best to let their children receive the best education. After many twists and turns, they finally understand the true meaning of life. Hope for the next generation, but..."

Listening to the judges' professional and pertinent comments, Zhou Xia stretched out both hands to take the Venice Golden Lion trophy from Bernardo, kissed it, and held it high.

The official photojournalist immediately took pictures of this scene, and the award-winning special article and related news soon appeared in major domestic media.

(End of this chapter)