The pilot poster was created by Luo Xi, who graduated from Russian Repin Academy of Fine Arts, and director Li Xu.
Special feature of 1905 film network Li Xu, a teacher of Beijing Film Academy and post-90s director, directed his first feature film Sunflower in the Evening.
Screenwriters Liu Yibing and production designer, photography director Jin Guirong, modeling director, editing director, sound director Liu Xiaofei, composer Guo Haowei, etc. These names may be a little strange to ordinary movie audiences, but as long as you know a little about the history of contemporary movies in China, you must understand the heaviness of such a lineup.
The heroine of the film is the best actress who won both the Golden Rooster Award and the China Watch Award. These names are put together, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as "palace level".Open the resumes of the masters, including a large number of classic works such as Latency.
What kind of movie will Sunflower in the Evening be when the post-90s new director meets the Golden Rooster and China Watch double-prize winner and the academic lineup?The film was previously shown as a special recommendation for the opening of the "Southern China (Zhuhai) Film Week" of the 30th University Student Film Festival of Beijing International Film Festival, and it is planned to be shown nationwide this year.
Director Li Xu once mentioned that as a movie fan, he was immersed in the film world of alexandro jodorowsky and other directors, and he also knew a lot about this kind of works.
What kind of style will it be when he picks up the guide tube and makes a movie himself? In 1905, the film network interviewed Li Xu, the director, and unveiled the mystery of Sunflower in the Evening in advance.
Director Li Xu.
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A movie without a "story"
What kind of story will happen to a woman who has to face illness and death?Sunflower in the Evening tells the story of Xu Manfang, an urban woman, who decided to give up treatment and return to the place where she was young after suffering from a terminal illness, where she made new friends and regained memories of youth, and spent the last part of her life.
Li Xu, the director, said frankly that he wanted to think about life philosophy issues about life and death. "When knowing that life is about to press the stop button, Xu Manfang’s mood is different from ours, and her inner confusion and fear are very strange. This strangeness provides a different perspective for the film in terms of technique and form."
"I want to write a movie without any external plot conflict", Li Xu insisted on making an inward exploration work. During the script creation stage, he deduced many versions, but he was never satisfied. Finally, with the help of teacher Liu Yibing, the story content has both an abstract core and a concrete mystery.
The first draft of the script was originally named "Weird Woman", but Li Xu felt too straightforward. At that time, he happened to turn to a song list he had created before, called "Sunflower in the Evening", which was just in line with the temperament that the film wanted to pursue — — Sunflowers in the evening are still born in the sun, and there is a great romantic optimism.
Li Xu said, "This film will provide the audience with infinite possibilities of reading. It is a summoning structure, that is, it gives you a bowl, and you put all your life experiences and experiences into it to turn it into a complete and full work. It means that we have done a comma, and the final period should be given to the audience. "
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Renhua Na: This may be my acting peak.
Renhua Na, the heroine, said to Li Xu after watching the film, "This may be the peak of my acting in my life.". This heartfelt feeling is a great affirmation for Li Xu.
Before the cooperation, Renhua Na had other new film invitations in the same period. It was the script of Sunflower in the Evening and the experimental and exploratory shooting techniques that attracted her to choose to star in this film. After filming, Renhua Na told Li Xu that her name means "sunflower" in Mongolian, and she was destined to have a deep fate with this film.
Renhua Na starred in Sunflower in the Evening.
Renhua Na’s acting skills have always been well-known. She has been nominated for the "Three Golden Awards" in China films for films such as "The Rustling of the Hunan Daughter", and won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress and the Chinese Film China Watch Award for Excellent Actress for her "Eji".
Renhua Na is very good at portraying people who are calm in appearance and complicated in heart, and Xu Manfang is also such a role. During the filming process, Li Xu hoped that Renhua Na could follow Xu Manfang into the mountain village alone, and in the process of life, he showed a state from not having a "soul" to gradually forming a "soul", so as to shape the whole role.
"Her performance is extremely flexible, with a particularly calm side and a particularly strong impact." Li Xu thinks that Renhua Na’s performance is completely beyond his original imagination, which endows the role with greater charm.
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Professor-level academic school behind-the-scenes big coffee to create
"It is both lucky and difficult to connect this film with so many big coffees." During the creation, Li Xu fully felt the aesthetic height and instinct of the senior behind-the-scenes predecessors of the academic school, and their innovative designs and ideas made the film have a more advanced audio-visual aesthetics.
Juiping Cao, a professor from production designer and China Communication University, has cooperated with the director for many times and participated in the art work of classic works such as Hanging the Red Lantern High, story of qiu ju and My Father and Mother.
At an expert seminar on the film Sunflower in the Evening held not long ago, Mr. Juiping Cao once told reporters that he and Director Li Xu had found the artistic tone for the whole film by referring to the painting style of Danish painter Wilhelm Hammerhuy.
Li Xu University majored in film and television and photography, and now teaches the basic course of photography modeling at Beijing Film Academy. This film also reflects his thinking of telling stories with images.
Together with Jin Guirong, director of photography and professor of Communication University of China, he decided to adopt the form of single-camera long lens shooting, striving for perfection in composition, mirror movement and light and shadow, and at the same time using visual modeling images such as sunflower, shadow play and mirror, trying to construct poetic image characteristics for the film.
Director Li Xu is at the shooting scene of the movie Sunflower in the Evening.
The post-editing work of the film is also a "hundred turns and thousands of times" honing process, and the editing of every plot content is repeatedly "turned over" in the mind of director Li Xu.
Li Xu and Zhou Xinxia, the editing director and professor of Beijing Film Academy, discussed many times and decided not to adopt the conventional editing method of causal logic, but to try their best to show the richness of film language in the editing details. It took more than a year to finish the editing work.
Sunflower in the Evening took four years to complete, and it is planned to meet the national audience during the year. From the first shot, director Li Xu intended to immerse the audience in a quiet atmosphere. He hoped that after the release, everyone would take a break from the noisy real world, tidy up their mood, slowly walk into the illusory world where reality and unreality are intertwined in the film, and carefully feel the mental journey of a woman facing herself on the screen.
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