Highest Couple [Entertainment]

Standing at the venue of the Cannes Film Festival again, Kim Eun-hwa has mixed feelings.

It was exactly ten years since she broke into the movie circle with her passion.

If she failed at that time, she would have to go back and continue acting in fast-food romantic dramas.Ideally, after three or four years to accumulate a certain popularity, you can try to take on some in-depth drama transformations.

But in any case, during the critical years of forming her own acting model, she did not have the opportunity to accept the guidance of top film directors.The performance of TV actors is very different from that of film actors.

She does have some talent.But in every industry, there are many talented people.It will always be rare to get valuable opportunities to be the top in the industry.If she follows the company's plan and resources step by step, maybe she will work hard, but she will not be able to touch her starting point in the film industry ten years ago.

It's cruel, but it's reality.

She is very grateful to Zheng Yunhao for pushing her back then.Taking this step is basically tantamount to destroying everything she just had at that time and starting over.Even if she was as bold as her, she actually backed down at the last moment.

At that time, she knew nothing about this circle and was a complete outsider.Looking back now, I was so ignorant and fearless that I didn't care about anything and just rushed forward to recommend myself, and I was very lucky.

In the years since, her luck has rocketed.

In 2004, she not only met a real nobleman in her career, and was hired by a powerful film master like Kim Ki-duk, but also won the youngest actress at the Berlin Film Festival in one fell swoop, and became famous all over the world.Even the soy sauce "Old Boy" won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Korean film to win an award at Cannes.

In 2005, she once again boarded the Cannes stage.This time she came with two works."Sweet Life" with a borderline heroine was shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes, and "The Bow" with an absolute heroine unexpectedly became the best film in the Un Certain Regard section.

Under the age of [-], four works in two years have appeared in the highest hall of film art.In Asia's top film circles, she was unrivaled in the limelight and hot, and no one would deny that she was a rising talent actor.

Then she traveled to Japan and started from scratch.After a short three-year silence, he came back with "The Undertaker", won the Montreal Film Festival's highest award, the Americas Award, and even boarded the Oscar podium.

But no one can rely on luck all the time, and neither can Jin Eunhe.

In 2009, she collaborated with Kore-eda Hirokazu on "Air Doll", which became the hottest actress at the Cannes Film Festival that year.However, she lost the final vote and missed the Best Actress Award.

Since then, although she has starred in many excellent films and cooperated with many top Asian directors, no film has been shortlisted for the top film festivals.

In Berlin, Cannes, and Venice, she appeared as an audience and a judge every year, but she no longer brought her own works to the arena.

Perhaps in the eyes of the world, she is a top actor who has always been active and has works, but only she knows in her heart that she has been away from this battlefield for four full years.

She is all set.

This time she did not come alone. In addition to the main creators such as Aoi Miyazaki and Satoshi Satoshi, she also has an entire public relations team to assist her in the work of the Cannes Film Festival.

The members of the PR team come from various sources, including those introduced by members of the Film Foundation, Kim Ki-duk’s long-term partners, and people from Japan.The reason why it is so complicated has something to do with the complicated sources of capital for the film.

When Jin Eunhe directed the film "Heading the Earth" for the first time, although he used the team of his teacher Kim Ki-duk and Kim Ki-duk himself served as the producer.But the producer of the film is a company funded and established by Zheng Yunhao.Just because it is affiliated with Kim Ki-duk, Kim Ki-duk's film company became the co-producer.

When Jin Eun-hwa directed his second film "So Close, So Far", the producer was still Jung Yun-ho's company.Later, the two got married. For them, the impact was not as simple as having a name or being public.The biggest impact is that the assets under their names automatically become the joint property of the husband and wife.

With their net worth and resources in their respective fields, their combination is no different from the merger of two medium-sized multinational companies.A few days after the marriage, Zheng Yunhao directly changed the legal person of the film company to Jin Eunhe.So now Jin Eunhe is not only the director, screenwriter, and starring role of this movie, but also the boss of the movie.

In addition, the co-producers of "So Near, So Far" include Kim Ki-duk's company, Amuse, and Dongbao, who joined Kim Eun and film capitalists for the first time.

Toho is an undisputed film giant in the Japanese film field, and almost half of the films go through their hands.Jin Enhe naturally dealt with them many times.

This time she tried to direct a Japanese film for the first time, with a very clear goal, that is, to go to the three major film festivals, and she did a lot of work in advance.

Not only did he submit the script to the organizing committee of the Cannes Film Festival more than a year in advance, he listened to the opinions of the other party and revised the script repeatedly, and established a good relationship with the organizer in advance.And also try to win over as many forces as possible.

For example, through the introduction of Kim Ki-duk, he caught up with the European art theater circuit.Kim Ki-duk has been able to win many awards in European film festivals, so the relationship with Europe is naturally not bad.

These theaters are complementary to the organizers of the three major film festivals. Because of the existence of these theaters, the films selected by the film festival have the financial resources to support the survival of art films; A good ad will lure arthouse lovers into the cinema.

Although art theaters cannot determine the selection results, their voices can be conveyed to the organizers of the film festival, and they also have long-term and stable relationships with major film magazines.It is sure to get twice the result with half the effort if they come forward to create momentum.

Another example is lobbying Dongbao to invest in movies.

Jin Eun-hwa is directing a Japanese film for the first time, and the Japanese industry is actually not optimistic about it.Jin Eunhe is a foreigner, and he has only directed a relatively simple commercial film before.Except for amuse, which followed up the investment to support its own platform, other Japanese companies took a wait-and-see attitude.

Jin Eunhe did not give up.After cutting out the first version of the film and submitting it to Cannes, she came to the door in person and knocked Dongbao down with the quality of the film.

Although Dongbao produces enough films by itself every year, it will not spend too much time on a jointly produced film.But Dongbao's energy and reputation are here, as long as they see that the movie has the prospect of winning, they will naturally weigh the gains and losses.

Sure enough, when "So Close, So Far" was shortlisted for Cannes, it was announced. Amuse and Dongbao took the initiative to add more chips and began to help Jin Enhe to operate.

There are many other things, as long as they are helpful to the competition, Jin Eunhe has done his best.She doesn't do this because she wants to cut corners.

The three major film festivals are the highest glory of art films, and Cannes is the top three.Only the best films of the year will have the chance to enter the competition.

19, only 19 were selected in the world.It can be said that the films that have reached the stage of being shortlisted are all films with award-winning qualifications and standards.

It is of course good to be outstanding, but if everyone is at the same level and loses in the off-screen efforts in the end, how can she, as a producer and director, be worthy of all those who have contributed to this movie.

Looking at this year's huge poster, she took a deep breath, turned to look at Aoi Miyazaki and Satoshi Satoshi: "It's our turn, let's go."

The jury lineup of this year's Cannes Film Festival is very luxurious. The chairman of the jury is Spielberg, and the members of the jury include Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, and Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, who has won the Cannes best actor Oscar for many times. Director Christian Monji, who won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, top Indian actress Vidya Balan, and Japanese female director Naomi Kawase.

The competition for this film is also very fierce.There are almost no new faces, and the directors of each film are regulars at major film festivals.

So before the opening, there were many news comments. This is the Cannes Film Festival with the "brightest stars" and "the most powerful" in recent years.The enthusiasm and discussions remain high, attracting countless media to focus here.

As soon as Jin Eunhe stepped onto the red carpet, he noticed that this year's scene was more lively than previous years.After thinking about it for a while, she understood. She smiled and laughed at her friends: "Speaking of which, I seem to be the only new director. It seems that our crew is the only unpopular one in Cannes this year."

His wife, Mu Cong, replied jokingly: "Boss! Great director! We are all counting on you, how can you get lost first."

Jin Eunhe walked on the far left, and in the middle was Satoshi Satoshi, who was holding Aoi Miyazaki politely with his right hand.Jin Eunhe didn't wear a dress tonight, but a full suit of trousers.So Satoshi Satoshi took care of Miyazaki Aoi who was inconvenient to wear long skirts.

Miyazaki Aoi heard what they were talking about, waved to the crowd with a smile on her face, but mercilessly complained: "The finalists are all long-established masters, only you, a newcomer, are qualified to compete with them on the same stage. Can I understand that you are boasting?"

As soon as she finished speaking, a photographer who was taking pictures around the red carpet suddenly shouted: "Jin! Look this way!"

Jin Eunhe was taken aback for a moment.To be honest, although she is a frequent visitor to international film festivals, she is a typical actress in literary films and has never made a particularly well-known film.She thought that ordinary European journalists didn't know her at all, and she never thought that someone would recognize her and call her name accurately.

"Look, you are much stronger than you think, right?" Miyazaki Aoi said to her.She held the arm of her husband Mu Cong, and the two stood beside her, smiling encouragingly at her.

Jin Eunhe read the encouragement from their smiles, and suddenly realized that she was too worried about gains and losses when she returned to Cannes this time.

She lowered her head and smiled while holding her forehead, and then raised her head with confidence.Turning around and waving skillfully at the camera, the whole person was in high spirits.

The three of them entered the venue, their seats were next to the crew of "Like Father, Like Son".

Fukuyama Masaharu had already seen her, waved to her from a long distance, and signaled that it was Hirokazu Kore-eda looking at her.When Jin Eunhe approached, Fukuyama Masaharu greeted jokingly: "The heroine of our crew, why did you come here now?"

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who had a gentle personality, and praised her with a smile: "Eunhe-san, congratulations~ Double films are shortlisted. Only Enhe-sang can do this kind of thing."

Jin Eunhe greeted the two with a smile, and then Hirokazu Kore-eda switched positions with Fukuyama Masaharu, and the two directors got together to discuss the situation of the film in a low voice.

Although they can only see the subject type and content introduction of the participating films now.However, since this year they are all familiar faces, either they have been friends with each other for a long time, or they have contacts in private, everyone took the initiative to inquire a little bit with their contacts, and they have a general idea of ​​this year's situation.

This year there are many famous directors and many films with great male roles. There is no doubt that it is a big year for the Best Director and Best Actor Awards.

It is Hirokazu Kore-eda who privately feels that he and Masaharu Fukuyama may not have much hope, but: "This time there will be no more than eight films that can compete for the best actress. Your film is a purely female perspective, same-sex love, and the subject matter is very dominant. .I think you can try to focus on public relations for the best actress award."

"Best actress..."

After the opening ceremony, go back to the hotel and work with the team on tomorrow's movie premiere.Jin Enhe suddenly recalled that it was Hirokazu Kore-eda who proposed to her.

In fact, she also agrees with Hirokazu Kore-eda's judgment.

"So Near, So Far" is a movie with two heroines, which leaves little room for his wife Satoshi Mu.

She is both the screenwriter and the director, and she knows very well that she is still young in doing these two jobs.She was very surprised that the film was shortlisted, but Jin Enhe felt that it was unrealistic to win against so many master directors.

So the only option left is to fight for the best actress award.

And she had communicated with the team before coming here, and she also planned to focus on the best actress award.But there is one thing that makes her undecided, she and Aoi Miyazaki have almost the same roles and excitement.

It feels very cool when writing and filming, but when it comes to the competition, this is very disadvantageous: other people's movies have a main perspective, an absolutely central protagonist.They want to compete with other people's absolute protagonists with half-and-half protagonists, so they naturally have disadvantages.

What's more, who is the main pusher?

In the end, she only told the team: "Tomorrow we will decide who will be the main pusher based on the reactions of film critics."

On the afternoon of May 5, "So Close, So Far" premiered.

There are more than [-] films screened in Cannes this year.Every year, in the second half of the film festival, those who participate will feel tired.So everyone expects to be able to screen in the front as much as possible.

Jin Enhe was very lucky this time, and was scheduled to be screened on the afternoon of the second day of the opening, which was the third screening of all the participating films.So even though their films are less popular, they still attract viewers.

Especially the production crews from China and Japan, all the members who came were present.As the host, Jin Eunhe was busy until the end before taking his seat.

On the afternoon of May 5, "So Close, So Far" premiered.

There are more than [-] films screened in Cannes this year.Every year, in the second half of the film festival, those who participate will feel tired.So everyone expects to be able to screen in the front as much as possible.

Jin Enhe was very lucky this time, and was scheduled to be screened on the afternoon of the second day of the opening, which was the third screening of all the participating films.So even though their films are less popular, they still attract viewers.

Especially the production crews from China and Japan, all the members who came were present.As the host, Jin Eunhe was busy until the end before taking his seat.

The picture on the big screen starts with a pair of feet.

Those feet clearly belonged to a young, slender woman.The high heels on the feet are three centimeters high, just the right size, not too high and aggressive, but also feminine.The lambskin shoes are pure white and simple, gentle and tasteful.

Just looking at such a pair of feet, it seems that the image of this woman can already be outlined in my mind.

The camera wobbled and followed behind the woman, always only photographing these feet.The woman's footsteps were in a hurry, stepping on the soft carpet, the background music was loud, and the noisy voices of people could be faintly heard from a distance.It looked like he was walking through the corridors of the clubhouse.

Finally the feet slowed down in front of a door.The camera also moved up slowly, revealing the woman's back and side face—Miyazaki Aoi pushed open the half-hidden door, and the voice of panting gradually became clearer.

The camera turns to the room, where a man and a woman are rolling on the sofa in the box.Jin Eunhe lowered his head and bit his wife Mu Satoshi's neck lightly, then hugged his back and smiled charmingly and provocatively at Miyazaki Aoi on his shoulder.

Miyazaki Aoi was standing at the door, looking at them calmly.

This is rape?Are they going to fight next?Are you going to make a fuss?All viewers can't help but think so.But what happened next was beyond everyone's expectations.

Without saying anything, Miyazaki Aoi quietly exited and closed the door politely for them.

The camera gave a close-up of Jin Eunhe.She was suddenly absent-minded, not at all proud of what a winner should have, but stared blankly at the direction in which Miyazaki Aoi left.

The audience present were either professional filmmakers or experienced film lovers. The rich readings made them immediately realize that this story probably happened between these two women.

Miyazaki Aoi, who was hiding in the dark and waiting, finally saw his wife Mu Satoshi, who had returned to his well-dressed clothes, leave.She went back to the box and saw Jin Eunhe, who had put on some clothes casually, smoking quietly.

Miyazaki Aoi walked up to her, buttoned her button gently, and straightened her hair.During the whole process, Jin Eunhe just looked at her coldly.

"Smoking is bad for your health," said Aoi Miyazaki.

Her calm tone offended Jin Eunhe.Jin Eunhe flung her hand away, looked at her contemptuously and charmingly: "I slept with your fiancé, why didn't you respond? Qinghai."

Miyazaki Aoi looked at her with the gentle and helpless eyes of a wayward child: "Xia, you know this is useless. Get out of here, don't continue to spoil yourself."

Jin Eunhe, no, now she is Xia.She flicked off the cigarette ash deftly and lightly, with slender fingers and messy and fluffy hair.The expression of the whole person is contemptuous and charming: "Is there any difference between you choosing to get married and sleeping with one man, and me choosing to sleep with countless men?"

Qinghai and Xia broke up unhappy.When she returned home, their wedding room was a typical Japanese-style one-household building.As Harumi walked around, one could see that the whole house was tidy and tidy with great care.

The fiancé had just finished taking a shower and came out of the bathroom. When he saw Qinghai, he naturally walked over and kissed her on the face, and asked affectionately, "Why did you come back so late today? Did you have dinner with your colleagues?"

As if the person who just cheated was not him.

Qinghai took the towel for wiping his hair in his hand nonchalantly: "Are you hungry? Do you want me to make you a supper?"

The fiance was watching TV in the living room, and Harumi was chopping vegetables in the kitchen.She couldn't help but recall Xia.

She and Xia didn't have such a tense relationship in the first place.They were both born in a remote seaside town and grew up together.Xia's mother died young, and she has always been very dependent on Qinghai.And Qinghai also likes Xia's innocence and liveliness.

They often sit by the beach and watch the sunrise together.Every time when morning glow appeared, Xia would excitedly point to the sea full of rays of light and say to Qinghai: "Look, Xia is in Qinghai's arms."

When did it start to change?It probably started when they came to Tokyo together.

Harumi has always been a very ambitious and planning person.She worked hard to get into college, and then completed her studies through a work-study program.After graduating, he entered a big company, kept dating promising men, and finally settled down with a fiancé who was excellent in all aspects, and was about to get married.

But Xia was different from her.Xia is very naive, she just wants to be with Harumi forever.After arriving in Tokyo, he had no academic qualifications and no ability to make a living, so he could only do odd jobs everywhere, and his life was very poor.But at that time Xia was happy because she had Qinghai.

It wasn't until Qinghai met her first stable boyfriend that she was about to move out of Xia's hut.

In the clubhouse, Xia is drinking with guests.A guest asked her when she started doing this.Xia said, "When I had nothing."

Harumi's wedding is set, just one month later.Xia desperately ran to Qinghai, begging her to go with her and return to the seaside town.Qinghai looked at her with pity and tenderness.

Xia understood and left alone.

Maybe God wants to make Quanxia.A major earthquake came, and the whole of Tokyo fell into panic.At the most dangerous moment for Qinghai, the image that came to mind was her and Xia at the seaside of the town.She hung up the phone call from her fiancé and decided to go to Xia.

At the same time, Xia ran out of the clubhouse with bare feet, only to find Qinghai.

They went through hardships, crossed the post-earthquake Tokyo, and found each other in the vast crowd.

Harumi promised Xia that she would leave everything in Tokyo and go back to her hometown with her.

They changed trains a few times and returned home on the slow-moving old train.In the car, they regained their long-lost intimacy.Kasumi leaned her head lightly on Harumi's shoulder, recalling the time when they took the train going in the opposite direction to Tokyo.

She looked out the window at the already unfamiliar scenery, but from the reflection of the window, she saw that she and Qinghai were no longer what they were before.

Kasumi and Harumi return to the town.There are no young people in the town anymore, and the old people who watched them grow up are gradually passing away.They live in Xia's old house, like a pair of mandarin ducks lying on their necks, living in a paradise without restraint.

But the sweet days didn't last long.Over time, life in isolation has also shown its downsides of dullness.Xia became more and more irritable, and there were more and more frictions between the two in their lives.Xia also gradually recalled that the days she and Qinghai lived together in Tokyo were not all happy.

The world in Tokyo is cruel.

Even if Qinghai has a degree from a prestigious university, because she is a woman, she will marry and have children to return to the family one day.Therefore, stable positions in good companies will give priority to male candidates, and she eventually became a dispatched employee.Qinghai didn't want to rely on marriage from the beginning, she also tried to change her destiny by herself.

And it is even more difficult for a woman like Xia who only has beauty.She thought that Qinghai left her because of money, so she decided to sell herself to get money quickly.But when she brought money to bring Qinghai back, Qinghai always looked at her with pity and tenderness, and told her: "Give up, it's useless."

In the last night of intimacy, Xia was desperate and crazy, but Qinghai was always gentle.Xia was afraid to look into her eyes, afraid that she would see the familiar pity in her eyes.

It was dawn, and Qinghai had already left with her luggage.There was not a single trace of her in the whole house.

Xia's expression was calm, as if she knew that Harumi would leave.She opened her suitcase and found an invitation from the deepest place.It was Qinghai's wedding invitation, and the wedding date written on it was just three days later.

The sun rose, and the morning glow filled the sky, reflecting on the blue sea.

Xia came to their beach and walked towards the sea step by step.She lit Qinghai's wedding invitation with a lighter, stretched out her palm, and watched the ashes fly through her fingers, fly to the sea, and be swept away by the waves.

The rays of the sun gradually dissipated, and only the sea under the clear sky remained between the sky and the earth.

Xia went back to the old house, took out the gorgeous clothes and changed into them, and put on her makeup carefully in front of the mirror.She finally put on bright lipstick for herself, looked at her beautiful face in the mirror, and shed a line of tears.

At Shinkansen Tokyo Station, her fiancé picked up Harumi: "How are the people in my hometown?"

With a gentle smile, Qinghai held her fiancé's arm like every docile wife: "Everything is fine. It's a pity that they are not suitable for traveling long distances and cannot come to our wedding."

The fiance put Harumi's suitcase in the trunk.The two got into the car, started the car, and gradually drove away.

The screen went dark, and the subtitles slowly appeared.

The entire theater was silent for a long time before his wife Mu Cong woke up like a dream and applauded lightly.His applause was like a signal, followed by sparse clapping, and soon the audience burst into thunderous applause.

Jia Zhangke's work "A Touch of Sin" was also shortlisted in Cannes.He and Kim Ki-duk were old friends, and he knew Jin Eun-ho very well in private.

He was the first one to rush forward, holding her hand very excitedly: "Xiao Jin~ You are indeed the apprentices taught by Lao Jin. You master and apprentice are really good at using metaphors! And the pictures are poetic and subtle, You have that kind of vigor! You said that you are so young, how can you shoot so well for the first time when you make a literary film..."

Jin Eunhe looked confused and didn't know what to say, so he kept thanking him.

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who wanted to go over and have a chat, but when he saw this scene, he waited far away.

Fukuyama Masaharu was still recollecting the plot of the movie, and asked him with some confusion: "It's the director. Are the two passages of Xiaguang disappearing and Kasumi dressing up in the mirror implying that Kasumi committed suicide?"

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who glanced at him, smiled and said, "Is this important?"

Fukuyama Masaharu thought about it carefully, and smiled: "You are right, it is really not important. But..." He sighed, and his tone was full of disbelief: "I really didn't expect that En and Sang would use a beautiful A romantic lily love story to tell about feminism."

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who smiled, not concealing his admiration: "She is very smart and ingenious. She used a very simple story and a small entry point to tell a very common status of women. And it is a very Japanese and very realistic status of women. , That is, women live in this patriarchal society, either paying for the uterus or paying for sex. But in essence, this is the same thing, and they all deprive women of the space to live independently."

Fukuyama Masaharu felt heavy in his heart.In fact, he himself has a very masculine character, but this does not prevent him from having basic empathy and empathy: "So at the end of the story, Eun and Sang let them escape to a paradise, only to find that there is no paradise at all. They will never be able to Get out of this society."

He was a little uncomfortable and asked in a daze: "Then what happened to them later? Will they continue to live as before when they go back?"

"This is the question En and Sang left for you to think about? A good director will not directly instill the answer to the audience. An excellent director asks questions and asks the audience to think about the answer." Hirokazu Kore-eda looked at Jin Eun And, "She has already found her own film style after she tried literary films for the first time. For me, Fukuyama-san, this is more amazing than her winning in Cannes."

The author has something to say: This time Enhe participated in the film festival as a boss and director, so the perspective is completely different from before, and the pressure is much greater.

The turnaround that had been dormant for many years just happened to hit the New Year in Cannes.How to make Enhe win? I have been pondering for a long time, and watched all competitive films.Substitute it in and think for a long time. If it is me, how to formulate the direction of public relations, it is really difficult.

The plot of the movie is purely original. Writing a novel would definitely not write a movie script, it would be too long.I only wrote the key plot of the movie, everyone understands it~

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