[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

Before "Lola" was officially released on a small scale, Joy appeared on a French talk show. She rarely went on talk shows to promote movies, at least not in the United States.

But now in France, she is obviously hesitant about whether her "Lola" can enter the French market, so she is willing to make some efforts for publicity.

This is a daytime talk show with a lighter taste.The host asked Joy a few questions, "Why did you want to do this "Lola" movie?"

Joy replied, "I just want to discuss a question, where will a person put his dream after he loses his feelings? The two seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they actually have a certain internal relationship."

The host said again: "Then how do you arrange your dreams and feelings?"

Joey pondered for a while, "I think, I will try to balance them, and each side will take half."

"After winning the Oscar, why do you want to come to France to make a film? Could it be that you want to hit the Cannes Film Festival this time?"

Joey smiled modestly: "No, absolutely not. I just want to try some different styles. I don't think a director can stick to one system all his life."

"So what do you say about Eva Green?"

Joey still smiled and said: "It is no exaggeration to say that I think she has dedicated the most wonderful acting skills since her debut."

"Well, let's look forward to the surprises that "Lola" will bring us as much as possible."

"Thank you."

Not long afterwards, "Lola" was officially screened on a small scale in France.

However, at the beginning of the release of "Lola", the famous French director Pierre Morel, who has directed "Taken" and other films, his new film "Violent Street 13" will collide with "Lola".

So he was at the premiere of "Violent Street 13", and some reporters asked him about "Lola".

""Violent Neighborhood 13" and "Lola" are almost released at the same time, Director Pierre, do you think this will be your competitor?"

Pierre glanced at the reporter with his very cold eyes, as if he was very disdainful of "Lola". This Hollywood outsider director made a film that imitated European culture, and he, a native French director, has won the essence of European literary films. Compared with "Violent Neighborhood 13", "Lola" is obviously not a big deal, so he didn't pay attention to it.

He said lightly: "I don't know why Joy Grant traveled across the ocean to make movies in Europe. Maybe she thinks European movies are easy? She thinks that she can continue to play European movies because she can handle Hollywood American movies? "

Afterwards, he smiled recklessly, "Actually, she was wrong. European movies are more difficult than American blockbusters, because American blockbusters have already had routines to find after so many years of precipitation, but European literary films have no routines."

The reporter asked, "Then do you think "Lola" is not to be feared?"

Pierre boldly said, "Joy is an excellent director, but I think she still needs to study hard in European pan-European philosophy for a period of time, and then she can hone her understanding of European films. She may need some 'experience' before that."

He added: "However, I am still very optimistic about Joy. After all, she is very talented, isn't she? It just needs to be tempered. No one can reach the sky in one step, even geniuses."

"Hollywood doesn't work in European movies. If she can succeed once, she has to abandon everything and reinvent herself."

Pierre's remarks were widely circulated.

He seems to represent the point of view of many old-school directors in Europe-Joy's first film may not be so successful, even if she is a genius, it will take a few films to sharpen before she can fully grasp the philosophy of European cinema.

Then, "Lola" came out.

There are only 18 theaters in total, so it was released for five days, and the current box office has accumulated 144 million US dollars, with an average revenue of just over 8 US dollars per theater. It only ranks 21st on the box office list.

This is a very normal phenomenon, after all, there are only 44 screens in total.

But what is extremely disproportionate to such a low box office result is the word-of-mouth of this "Lola".

This is absolutely unexpected, and the reputation of "Lola" is much better than expected.

There are very few people who have seen this movie, but among those few fans, the word-of-mouth of this movie is as fierce as the recent heat whirlwind.

On the famous French movie rating website, many movie fans gave this movie a long-lost high score.

"For a film with such a subject matter, if it is well-made, it is not difficult, it is shot reasonably, and the audience is convinced, that is where the skill lies."

"In this movie, you can feel the determination of Joey and Eva to change their minds."

The famous French film critic Dalenovsky is also a passer-by fan of Joey. He admires Joy's previous films, especially "Juno" and "The Weakness" and "Slumdog Millionaire". He likes the brilliance of humanity portrayed in Joy's movies.

This time, he also went to the cinema to watch "Lola" for the first time.Lola was only shown in 18 theaters, and it took him a while to find a theater showing Lola.

Similar to him, the audience who came to this cinema to watch "Lola" were basically diehard fans or passer-by fans of Joey or Eva Green.

They all came here with some kind of expectation, and they hoped that Joey and Eva wouldn't disappoint them.

But when they sat in the screening hall, after the first shot of the whole movie was shot.

Everyone is relieved.

Yep, Joey never disappoints them.

Whether it's Eva Green's gothic and crazy acting style, or her violent personality that seems to have a split personality, and the more violent, the more peak painting skills, all present a perception that makes the audience feel strange and out of place.

From her performance, the audience feels an uncomfortable emotion all the time. Yes, if this is the case, it means that Eva has succeeded. Laura is a person who makes people feel extremely uncomfortable. Her personality is extremely obvious. Defects.

This role is actually not easy to play, especially the inner entanglement and transformation.It can be seen that Eva has really put her heart into it, and her temperament has already integrated into the character.

Joy uses a lot of subjective shots of Laura to emphasize her various psychological states.

Although this movie is a bit old-fashioned in terms of story setting, but after seeing it now, everyone feels that the script is not important anymore.

Because of Eva's high-level performance and Joey's superb technique, the audience fell into a no-man's land. As long as the logic of the script is normal and not abrupt, then no one will care about the plot of the story. In that crazy, dark and ironic atmosphere.

Secondly, Joey really has a unique way of shooting, and he doesn't even think it's a waste to use the whole movie to describe the process of a person from normal to violent, finally depressed, even split personality, and finally self-destructive, and the form of expression is particularly strong.

Moreover, the whole film is full of warm and sunny tones, but Joey doesn't know what kind of awesome method he used. Even in the bright sunshine, some scenes still make the audience feel a weird and horrifying coldness. In the history of film, it is a rare and powerful technique!

This "Lola" is really... terrific!

Joey Grant... She has really been reborn!

The best proof is that after the film ended, all the audience stood up collectively and applauded collectively for 5 minutes in the screening hall.

No one left, and everyone was shocked by the reborn Joey.

She broke away from Hollywood's American way of thinking, came to France, and made a nagging literary film full of European style.

Her potential is really great and infinite!

Pierre might be disappointed. His previous remarks about "Lola" were immediately retaliated by fans.

Who said Joey had to stumble a few times to understand pan-European philosophy?

He, Mom, made his first European film and played with pan-European philosophy to the extreme!

She... really did it, completely reborn.

After watching the movie, Dalenovsky didn't even have time to get out of the movie theater. With a feeling of excitement, he typed his film review manuscript on his mobile phone, and even the hands that pressed the buttons were still shaking .

"Joy Grant, this talented director who doesn't take the usual path, she abandoned the usual American taste, abandoned the usual Oscar taste, abandoned the mainstream Hollywood line, and shot a film that is very different from the classics."

"Throughout the whole movie, literary and artistic elegance is only superficial, and the deep-seated theme is the theme of depression and despair, which reflects the darkness of human nature and the division of personality in a tough and unruly way of interpretation."

"This "Lola"... can only be described as reborn."

"A Joey Grant like you've never seen!"