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The celebration boom of the 70th Venice Film Festival has not yet come to an end, and the screening of the main competition unit is still in full swing. The 38th Toronto Film Festival has already begun to warm up slowly and is ready to enter the climax/trend. Since last year, the dates of the two film festivals in Venice and Toronto have gradually overlapped, and the beginning of the tail has also continued to this year.

Judging from the current situation, Venice is not optimistic, and Toronto is rising.

The major media in North America have not had time to marvel at the decline and decline of the Venice Film Festival. The opening ceremony of "Gravity" has already ushered in the pinnacle of the entire film festival. The average quality and outstanding standards of the entries in the subsequent main competition units are far The failure to reach the height of "gravity" is really disappointing; then the heat wave in Toronto has detonated the focus of attention and discussion frenzy.

"Toronto’s new history of long queues: start queuing forty-eight hours ahead of schedule!'Gravity' sets a new record."

"With a queue of more than two thousand spectators, the Toronto Film Festival is equal to the People's Film Festival, and it deserves its reputation!"

"'Gravity' hasn't been hot before the show, and Lanly Hall's fanaticism is spreading in Toronto."

"Camping at the entrance of the cinema for two days and two nights, just to support'gravity' for the first time: the heyday of Lanly Hall has come."

"From a frenzy of praise to a wave of popularity, the global premiere of'Gravity' is unstoppable!"

"Book the best Oscars in advance? Gravity kicks off the 2013 awards season."

"The orderly but crowded queuing scene, Lanly Hall is creating a new history for the Toronto Film Festival."

"Even if you can't enter the theater, the long queue is still unstoppable!'Gravity' deservedly became the biggest hit at the Toronto Film Festival."

"North American audience,'Gravity' is here!"

Although Lan Li appeared at the queuing scene outside the movie theater and sincerely advised fans not to stay up late in the line and still need to put their body first, his appearance has become a "welfare" passed by word of mouth to the fans, intangible. Among them, the queuing team not only did not decrease, but also increased exponentially, which made Lan Li also dumbfounded.

In the end, the long queue at the "Gravity" scene exceeded two thousand people, and the premiere screening room could only accommodate one thousand people. This became a unique glorious sight in the history of the Toronto Film Festival, even if it was ten. Years later, even if Lanli came again, such a scene could not reappear, mainly because 2013 was really too special and too sensational. By chance, such a miracle was created.

The close neighbor Toronto is bursting with incredible energy. The vast queue of long queues has shocked all the audience in North America, and even spread across the world, regardless of whether you like it or not. Regardless of whether you are curious or not, the momentum of "gravity" spread to the next level. From the full score screen in Venice to the crowds in Toronto, this movie truly dominates the focus of attention in September.

Lanly and Alfonso stayed in Toronto for four full days, received interviews from more than 200 media, held two press conferences, and held a small fan meeting, from the amazement of film critics. The audience’s love once again ignited a flame for the promotion of "Gravity" landing in the North American market.

After the premiere of "Gravity" in Toronto, it once again successfully ushered in a wave of praise.

Compared with Venice’s fifteen full marks, Toronto finally has a non-full score. For a commercial film, this is expected and inevitable, and the non-full score appears much later than expected. .

Among the 11 important media ratings that emerged at the Toronto Film Festival, a total of two non-perfect scores appeared, from "Independent Telegraph" and "The New Yorker".

"Independent Telegraph", ninety-five points, "Gravity opens up a real space field that has been stripped of the sugar coating, allowing the audience to swim in it. The use of many advanced film technologies may fall into a misunderstanding at any time, Alfonso Caron managed to avoid this and created a masterpiece."

"The New Yorker", 95 points, "Gravity is not a movie that wins with creativity and ideas—just like Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, but it's still a movie The work in which the physical experience is magnified to the extreme, and the experience of the five senses releases the charm of the film. In a sense, the weakness of the story is made up for by the excellent performance of Lanly Hall."

Although there is no full score, the praise of 95 points is still strong enough; and the other nine scores, without exception, are full 100 points.

So far, the average score of "Gravity" in the media is 99.6 points. According to the principle of rounding, it is still maintained at 100 points for the time being. This also means that after the baptism of two film festivals , The positive rate of the media is still high, which also makes the expectations continue to rise.

By the way, before the arrival of the New York Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival came to an end.

Venice awarded the Golden Lion Award to the Italian film "Roman Ring Road", which is the second documentary to win the highest award in the history of the three major European film festivals, after "Fahrenheit 911" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 , Venice also owns the first documentary work in its history to win the Golden Lion Award.

But... the chairman of the jury, Bernardo Bertolucci, who has filmed such masterpieces as "The Last Emperor" and "Dream of Paris", was scolded by the media and the audience.

In an interview, Bernaldo firmly stated that he was moved to tears by watching the "Rome Ring Road", and now there are fewer and fewer filmmakers making documentaries sincerely. It is precisely because of this that he and the judges The members of the group decided to award the Golden Lion Award to this work.

However, other film critics and audiences did not give any recognition. They believed that this documentary was completely filmed for the Italian jury chairman. No one except Italians can feel the sincerity and moving of this work. The worries before the opening of the film festival-the 70th Anniversary Golden Lion Award belongs to the "return to hometown" of Italian film, after all, it happened. This is undoubtedly a major blow to the festival's international reputation.

As we all know, the attribution of the film festival awards has nothing to do with the media rating, but with the jury as the core, but even if you leave aside the ratings, even if you don’t have the "gravity" that can enter the main competition unit, among the many works shown in Venice this year, There are still more commendable works.

It is disappointing that the jury headed by Bernardo Bertolucci failed to make a fair choice.

The 70th Venice Golden Lion Award was later regarded by many as the most "watery" time in film history. This seems a bit exaggerated, but at least it is certain that since the 21st century, this time the Golden Lion Award has won The recognition and approval of the company is definitely the least, which is undoubtedly worse for the troubled Venice.

There are wolves and tigers behind, and internal problems continue. The Venice Film Festival, which is about to enter its 71st year, is now facing a serious crisis.

Against this background, the sighs of "gravity" missed the main competition unit became more and more frequent, but the new chairman of the festival Alberto Abella was relieved-if "the center of the earth" "Gravity" is still upset when it enters the main competition unit. Then it is the real public relations crisis.

For Alberto, there is good news and bad news in the first year after taking office. If he can't think of a clear development idea, then the same dilemma will still exist next year.

The People's Choice Award in Toronto also broke the popularity. "Twelve Years of Being a Slave" defeated "Gravity" and successfully reached the top.

Such a result cannot be completely said to be an accident. It is not so much an upset as an early warning of the awards season.

The British director Steve McQueen (Steve McQueen), who has worked with Michael Fassbender to film two wonderful works of "Hunger" and "Shame", this time has filmed the "Slaves" that focuses on species/ethnic issues. Twelve years ~www.novelhall.com~ has received a lot of praise after the premiere of the Toronto Superstar, and the media praise even surpassed the "gravity"——

"Gravity" has nine out of 11 reviews in Toronto, and "Twelve Years as a Slave" has full marks in all 18 reviews in Toronto.

This situation is similar to the "Life of Adele" and "Drunk Country Folk Songs" in Cannes this year. At that time, "Drunk Country Folk Songs" regrettably lost the Palme d’Or; and now "Gravity" also regrettably missed the People’s Choice Award. . I don't know if it is related to the rebellious psychology caused by the overly ferocious momentum of the award-no one can accurately assert that there is a direct connection between the two.

In the end, in this year’s Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Awards, “Twelve Years as a Slave” won the prize, “Gravity” ranked second, and “Prisoner” won the third place.

Since the “Slum Millionaire” won the Toronto People’s Choice Award in 2008, it has been steadily reaching the Oscars. The top award of the Toronto Film Festival has been hailed as the new vane of the North American awards season. In the past five years, it has been Four times, the winner of the People’s Choice Award has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.

Now "Twelve Years as a Slave" is born, coupled with the particularity of the attention-grabbing black theme, and Brad Pitt's escort, and the Fox Searchlight has bought the North American distribution rights, and the Academy PR for the award season is already Foreseeing a **** storm. Now, it has faintly surpassed "gravity" and has become the number one seed.

Of course, it's not that "gravity" is not good enough, but "twelve years as a slave" is no less powerful, so the storm of the awards season has slowly begun to brew.

"Gravity" showed a strong momentum forward, leaving Toronto and heading for New York.




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