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Chapter 130 Piano Teacher (Please subscribe, collect, recommend, and vote monthly)
Sandrin and Charlotte said goodbye first!
As jury members, they cannot have much contact with filmmakers.

However, most of the customers in this restaurant are filmmakers.

So, the two had to leave early.

Liu Jin and Sophie Marceau sat for a while, during which time several filmmakers came up to greet them, but Sophie Marceau declined them all.

After the two paid the bill, they left the restaurant.

The Millennium Mambo crew not far away also got Liu Jin's information.

However, neither Director Hou nor the other members cared too much after learning that Liu Jin was from mainland China.

Only Shu Qi remembered Liu Jin's two works.

……

Sophie Marceau is very familiar with Cannes.

She originally wanted to go back to the hotel directly with Liu Jin, but Liu Jin dragged her to Lesuke for a walk.

Standing on Carter Square, feeling the sea breeze.

Sophie made a phone call and then sat next to Liu Jin.

"Isabelle is not in Cannes today, but she will come tomorrow. I have an appointment with her to visit her at noon."

"I can do it!"

Liu Jin didn't care much about it.

His main job is writing, and he has some contact with the film industry, but not much.

The reason for visiting Isabelle Huppert was because she had spoken for him in the media several times before.

I'm grateful, of course, but am I eager to get to know him? Not really.

He handed Sophie Marceau a bottle of beer, then sat on the steps and quietly looked at the scenery in the distance.

Sophie didn't say anything else and just sat with him in silence.

She is a mature woman.

Although Liu Jin didn't say anything, she could still feel that the reason Liu Jin came to Cannes was probably because he had encountered some troubles.

She wouldn't ask.

If Liu Jin is willing to talk, she will listen.

If he didn't want to, she would just sit with him quietly.

This way, it’s also good!
"Something happened to me."

"I know."

“Then I was confused.”

"I can feel."

"But just now, a story came to my mind."

"Forehead?"

“A story that travels through time and space.”

Sophie Marceau sat quietly beside him, took a sip of water, and turned to look at him.

"21-year-old Adrian is of Chinese descent. After a Lunar New Year party that ended unpleasantly like every year, his father told him that the men in his family were born with the ability to travel through time and space.

Adrian cannot change history, but he can change some small things that have happened and will happen in his life.

So he decided to use her abilities to make life better.

Rich and has a beautiful girlfriend.

So he moved from London to Paris and successfully became an excellent stockbroker. At the same time, he also met a beautiful but not very confident girl named Sophie..."

Liu Jin looked at the sea view under the afterglow of the sunset and talked freely.

Sophie listened quietly on the side.

Slowly, a light flickered in her eyes.

The sea breeze was gentle, blowing through Carter Square with a hint of coolness.

Liu Jin finished his story, turned to look at Sophie Marceau, and asked with a smile, "What do you think?"

"It sounds great and could be made into a movie."

"Then I'll give you this story."

"what?"

"Aren't you studying directing?"

"But……"

Sophie Marceau was a little moved.

She suddenly hugged Liu Jin and was speechless for a long time.

……

That night, the two watched "The Piano Teacher" at the Cannes Film Palace.

Liu Jin's scalp tingled when he saw it.

This is fucking like watching a Woodpecker movie.

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Austrian writer Alfred Jelinek.

Well, this was a female writer who would win the Nobel Prize in Literature three years later.

The story tells about a forty-year-old female piano teacher who is famous for her strictness with her students and lives with her elderly but controlling mother.

At the beginning of the story, everything was normal.

But later...

The teacher grew up under her mother's strict discipline, which led to her becoming an unsatisfied woman. She relied on going to video stores to watch porn movies and watching lovers' sex in open-air cinemas to vent her sexual desires. Liu Jin expressed his confusion about this.

I feel like European movies have this kind of tone, with all the twists and turns of human nature, and it all comes down to qy in the end.

At this point, Liu Jin felt something was not right!

However, he admitted that Isabelle Huppert's acting...felt like she really had that tendency.

Later on, a blond and energetic male student appeared inexplicably.

The actor who played the male student was called Benoît Magimel. Liu Jin was not familiar with him, but he looked a little familiar, as if he had starred in the movie "French Drug War".

The male student was attracted to the female teacher, who was also a bit eccentric. He subjected her to a series of sexual assaults and abused her mentally and physically.

Please forgive Liu for his lack of talent and knowledge.

I really can't understand the connection between them, nor can I see the artistry in it.

Perhaps, Liu Jin is just a vulgar person!
The only feeling I have is that it has a strong aftereffect.

After returning to the hotel, he and Sophie were very attentive and kept up the activity until three o'clock, when they both fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Liu Jin slept until ten o'clock.

The first thing he did when he woke up was to tell Sophie Marceau: "Sophie, when you make a movie in the future, you must pay attention to the script. The type of movie like The Piano Teacher... If you really can't find a good script, I can help you write it."

Sophie couldn't stop laughing.

"Then I'll leave it to you, great writer!"

This is also a dilemma for French actresses.

It's not easy for them to get good scripts in Hollywood.

There are many actresses in Hollywood, but sometimes, even if they make efforts, they may not get satisfactory results.

And in Europe...

Forget it, how many years has it been since France has produced any excellent films?

To some extent, French films are not even as good as those of Germany, Spain and Italy.

Even an actress like Sophie Marceau finds it difficult to find good scripts.

As for European directors... well, it’s hard to describe them in a few words.

The two played around in bed for a while before getting up and getting dressed.

During this period, Isabelle Huppert also called and agreed on the time and place.

"Isabelle's status in France wouldn't warrant a film like this."

Sophie was putting on makeup while Liu Jin was sitting on the sofa waiting.

"Why do you think Adjani wants to be a director? And Emmanuelle... and I, too, are learning to direct. The center of the film industry is Hollywood, a view shared by all European filmmakers. Every year, people call for change, but in reality..."

Sophie Marceau did not explain further.

It's more than just a movie.

In the future, the whole of Europe will be nothing more than a dish on the table of the Lighthouse Country.

There are too many factors involved here, and Liu Jin is too lazy to think about it.

At noon, Liu Jin and Sophie Marceau met Isabelle Huppert at the MARAMAR beach restaurant and bar.

The restaurant and bar is located next to the Palace of Cinemas.

It is said that the red carpet for the opening and closing ceremonies will pass by the entrance of the restaurant and bar.

It's also a great spot to watch the Cannes Fireworks Festival.

During film festivals, the restaurant and bar are always packed.

Fortunately, Isabelle Huppert is a local boss.

She booked the best seat in the restaurant and bar to entertain Liu Jin and his friend.

Once upon a time, this was also a beauty.

But now, she is already old...

Liu Jin expressed his gratitude to Huppert, and Huppert encouraged Liu Jin to create more, better and more outstanding works.

"It feels like she has high hopes for you."

"I?"

Sophie said softly after meeting Huppert.

Liu Jinze said with a puzzled look on his face: "I am Chinese!"

"But she thinks you are the best writer currently in France."

"Ha, I don't deserve that praise."

"Hehe, I don't care. Just don't forget the story you promised me."

"I know I know!"

In fact, Liu Jin originally wanted to tell Sophie Marceau the story he had mentioned, not "The Time Traveler's Wife," but "The Time Traveler's Wife." However, he later remembered that the author of "The Time Traveler's Wife," Audrey Niffenegger, had started writing it as early as 1997, and it seems that it was completed in the past two years.

No need to take risks!
A time traveler in love is not necessarily worse than the time traveler's wife.

"The Time Traveler's Wife" was adapted and released in 2009, with a box office of $ million.

"Time Traveler" was released in 2014 and grossed over million US dollars.

There is a time lag factor involved.

If Time Traveler was released before Wife, it might not have lost at the box office.

Liu Jin is full of confidence in this regard!
……

(End of this chapter)