The Beijing International Film Festival Film Master Class has built a platform for dialogue on film art. The film master class of the 15th Film Festival invited Chinese director, screenwriter, producer and writer Jia Zhangke, French actor Isabel Yuper and Chinese director, actor and screenwriter Jiang Wen. They will share their creative experiences in Beijing next week. This film festival master class event is sold on Maoyan, the official exclusive ticketing platform.

  Jia Zhangke

  Memories of mountains and rivers, mortals talk

  From 14:00 to 15:30 on April 21, the film master class will enter Jia Zhangke's cinema universe and listen to the ordinary whispers of the social transformation period through the lens with this recorder of the era.

  Jia Zhangke uses rough and poetic lenses to capture the local shadows and urban street scenes in the transition period. He always insists on adopting a documentary aesthetic style - storing dialect, using non-professional actors, and shooting real social scenes to present the texture of real life and expressing individual joys, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

  In his movies, the audience saw ordinary people living around them: extras who "travel the world" in the global imitation buildings of the folk garden in "The World"; in "The Good People in the Three Gorges", they took a boat to the Three Gorges to find relatives, silent miners and nurses; in "The Old Friends of Mountains and Rivers", they were separated by oceans and embarked on a journey to find their roots many years later; in "The Children of the Jianghu", they passed by by chance and wandered for half their lives - the faint sighs of these tiny individuals facing the flow of life are keenly captured by Jia Zhangke's camera, becoming a collective image memory. In 2006, he won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival six times, attracting the attention of the world and creating the glory of Chinese films.

  Isabel Huppel

  Under the glacier, there is an undercurrent

  From 10:30 to 12:00 on April 23, fans will be able to listen to Yupper's deep understanding of film, art and even human nature in his performance, and feel her delicate and free performance style.

  Isabel Huppel is one of the most outstanding performing artists in the contemporary world film industry. From the new wave of French films in the 1960s to the wave of transnational films under the globalization pattern of the 21st century, this French national treasure actress traveled easily between Hollywood and Eurasia. She won the Best Actress Award twice for her outstanding acting skills, the Best Actress Award twice for the Venice International Film Festival, and in 2016, she won the Oscar nomination for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her film "She".

  Yupper created a unique performance aesthetic with his unique temperament and multi-faceted personality - with a calm and self-sustaining appearance, wrapping up a surging heart. She is good at shaping the character's unpredictable psychological struggle between the flowing eyes and the subtle behavior, and wandering among various complex characters with amazing plasticity. She has worked with masters such as Chabrol and Hanek for a long time and has worked together to create many classic film characters, such as the open-minded Mary in "The Woman's Rhyme", the decisive and decisive Jane in "The Cold Festival", the Erica who suppresses division in "The Piano Teacher", and the resolute and fragile and persistent Michelle in "She"... The female characters she plays all exudes a thrilling beauty. They are often trapped in the quagmire of life, but they never roar. They are as calm as water on the surface, but there is an incalculable emotional explosive power brewing under the waves.

  Jiang Wen

  Directed by acting, style established the world

  At the movie master class from 13:30 to 15:00 on April 25, Jiang Wen will share the screen rhapsody of "Ghost Director" based on his own creative experience.

  Jiang Wen started out with performance. Whether it is Yu Zhan'ao in "Red Sorghum", Liu Xianggao in "Spring Peach", or Zhang Muzhi in "Let the Bullets Fly", he has created many extremely classic and vital characters in Chinese film history. Since 1994's "Sunny Days", he has held the guide cylinder and the camera has turned into a sharp scalpel, accurately dissecting the realistic texture and pointing to the inner core of social phenomena and national character. He used Jiang's humor to resolve the deadlock, portrayed the world with surrealism, and became the "genius director" that the audience loved. His works have been shortlisted for top international film festivals several times, allowing audiences around the world to appreciate his unique Chinese humor and distinctive personal style.

  Gunshots and laughter are heard, absurdity and humor are danced together. "Let the Bullets Fly" received enthusiastic responses as soon as it was released with humorous and dense lines and undercurrent human game. "One Step Away" once again resolves the survival proposition of "To be or not to be" with personal unique words such as "so still so". It can be said that his works often make the audience smile knowingly while making a silence. This outstanding ability to cleverly balance artistic expression and commercial demands has enabled him to create a win-win situation of box office and reputation.

  Text/Reporter Xiao Yang

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