Chopard, a close friend of the Chopard brand, and one of China’s sixth-generation directors, Jia Zhangke, was awarded the Golden Carriage Award (Lifetime Achievement Award) in the ‘Director’s Week’ section of the Cannes International Film Festival on the evening of May 14. . This award aims to reward ‘pure film genius’, and he is the first Chinese director to win this award.
Jia Zhangke pursued the image “penetration of reality” and took a stand-alone approach, using lens language to describe the cost and destiny of ordinary people in a huge social transformation era. At a time when Chinese films collectively favored the Hollywood style and sank into non-realistic themes, Jia Zhangke’s intense humanistic attention to Chinese reality became particularly valuable. As the Cannes Film Festival, which has always been known for its humanistic feelings, he has repeatedly thrown olive branches at him: the 2002 film ‘Ren Xiaoyao’ was nominated for the Golden Palm Awards, the 2008 film ‘Twenty-four Cities’ was nominated for the Golden Palm Awards, and the 2013 film ‘Destiny’ nominated Golden Palm and eventually won the Best Screenplay Award. In 2007, Jia Zhangke was appointed chairman of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. The French ‘Movie Manual’ once commented on his work: it is a film that marks the renaissance and vitality of Chinese cinema, which has broken away from the conventions of Chinese cinema.
The new work ‘An Old Man in the Mountains and Rivers’ is Jia Zhangke’s return to the theme of emotion. The artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival evaluates the film: It is very beautiful, a love story deeply rooted in China. The story of the film, which passed from 2014 to 2014 and then to 2025, is a woman’s love and parting over decades, and it is also an epic about personal emotions. The film was filmed in China and Australia, with about a third of the English dialogue. Starring Zhao Tao, Zhang Aijia, Zhang Yi, Liang Jingdong, Dong Zijian. The film is also shortlisted for this year’s main competition, which is also the fourth time Jia Zhangke has been shortlisted for the Cannes main competition, and he will compete for the supreme Golden Palm Award together with this year’s 18 films.
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