Interview director Zhang Lu | "Long Confession", this is not the love of young people

"When silent, love may be completed."

"The reason for choosing Ni Ni is because she is elegant, casual, and handsome."

"People are dominated by space, and no one must have traces in the space. Finding this trace can drag out time."

Not long ago, the director Zhang Lu came to the 1958 film city of Edi to communicate with the audience of Chengdu. Facing the enthusiastic Chengdu audience, Zhang Lu opened the box.

Today (September 4), "Long Confession" was launched in Youku. Earlier, Zhang Lu accepted a telephone interview with Red Star Journalists and talked behind the scene behind the film "Long Confession". The process of dialogue with Director Zhang Lu is more like listening to a distant snow. It seems to come from the distant hometown, and it is also mixed with a little warm feelings added for years.

"Long Confession" poster

Some audiences say that "Long Confession" is the "green" courtesy of Zhang Lukou ten years later, with unknown gently moved, the undercurrents of calmness, and going to the hearts of the audience. Others say that this "green" may be a bit similar to Zhang Lu himself -natural, easy -going, calm, and moving. These may be just the subjective interpretation of the onlookers, but Zhang Lu does not exclude this interpretation. In his opinion, the moment the creator completed the work, he "pick it clean", and all the remaining ones were given to the audience. Complete the final process that belongs to the movie.

Zhang Lu was born in Jilin in 1962. When he filmed the short film "11 years old" in 2001, he was nearly 40 years old. "11 years old" was alarming after the release, and was shortlisted for the Venice Short Film Competition Unit. Since then, films such as "Tang Poems", "Manga", "Dou Manjiang", "Qingzhou", "Spring Dream" and other films have also gained a lot of international film festivals such as Berlin, Busan, Logayo, Rotterdam, and Vancouver.

For a long time, Zhang Lu has produced movies under the co -workers of China, South Korea, and France. His movie tours are at different countries, shuttled at both ends of the geographical boundary, and explore in different cultures, politics, and emotional spaces. In the past ten years, Zhang Lu was invited to serve as a film professor at Yanshi University in South Korea. He began to create film creation in South Korea, and cooperated with the new and old drama bones of Korean film industry such as Wen Suli, Shen Min'er, Park Hairi, Yin Zaiwen.

Director Zhang Lu (right) communicated with Chengdu fans on the spot

Zhang Lu is 60 years old. "Long Confession" is his first work to meet with the audience in the domestic theaters. The story of the film revolves around a pair of brothers with different personalities. After entering middle age, although both of them lived in Beijing, they were tired of their own life trajectories. Suddenly, his brother Lidong proposed to his brother to travel to Liugawa to find a woman who admired the two in his teenagers.

"Long Confession" seems to be a long -lost family book. This book has love, sorrow, regret, and the touch of the faint thoughts and unknown of Zhang Lu. If he uses his favorite ancient poems to describe this feeling, it may be: "It seems that I have known Yan's return."

Nowadays, Zhang Lu, who has been wandering for more than ten years, has settled in Beijing and returns to the space he is familiar with. In this world, not only the outsidal love story "Long Confession", but also the new film "The Light of the White Tower" that is being produced, as well as many thoughts about space and people ...

Return

Domestic life and emotions are the most familiar, there are many places that are unforgettable

Red Star News: What is the opportunity to make you return to the creation of Chinese movies again? Why choose a story and theme like "Long Confession"?

Zhang Lu: One is the change in my life. I decided to return to Beijing to live. Another is that although I have been teaching to make films in South Korea for more than ten years, domestic life and emotions are still the most familiar. There are many places that I miss, so I think about whether it is possible to return to China to shoot. This time, there is such an opportunity. Some investment companies support this project. The Emei Film Group, who is the first product, trusts me and gives me the opportunity to realize my desire.

Then the space of Liuchuan began to attract me more than ten years ago. When I arrived in that space, I felt that it would be interesting if there was a beautiful and elegant woman reorganizing this place. Isn't there a surname of Liu in our surnames, it should be Chinese. After all, Beijing is the longest time for my life. I know the space between Beijingers and Beijing. Therefore, the space in Liuchuan and Beijing has appeared.

This year I actually made another new film, completely filmed in Beijing, called "The Light of White Tower". I have many unforgettable and desired places about Beijing. The life around Beijing Baita Temple has very strong local characteristics.

"Long Confession" Ni Ni stills

Red Star News: Is there a real experience in "Long Confession"? What if are there?

Zhang Lu: The love story in the story, I don't, I am a boring person. But my expression of that emotional state is still familiar. There will be some characters around me. A work and the author's life experience overlap and there are places where there is no overlap. Most of the creations are actually like this. You say that it is my experience, and it must be lying. You say it has nothing to do with my experience and is not accurate. These are overlapping.

Red Star News: What kind of understanding do you have about love? How does the essence of love express in your movie?

Zhang Lu: Love is the strongest in our various emotions. The works of any era have love, but I have always felt that we can't say the love list, it is just a strong emotion in various emotional relationships. So when I filmed, there will be no "big reunion", or a perfect ending. Beautiful love is very difficult to realize. In the end, there is more helplessness and melancholy, and when you want to understand.

Red Star News: When you were 39 years old, you made the first debut short film "11 years old", which is too late for you? Why did you start making movies at this time?

Zhang Lu: I think everything can only be in terms of individuals. It may be a suitable age group for me. Some people may be 20 years old. This is the right age group. This can only be varying from person to person.

Red Star News: There are often some ancient poems in your movies. What is the reason? What if you use an ancient poem to describe the current state of mind?

Zhang Lu: Ancient poems are not just things in textbooks or poems. I think the Chinese people have this thing in daily life. For example, sometimes you have a change in emotion, and your heart will be poetic. For example, when the moon is round, when your emotions change, you will unconsciously think of "the moonlight in front of the window". The form of ancient poetry is connected with the emotional state of the Chinese people, and the times are changing, but it can still affect our emotions. I feel very good.

Maybe I am this year (60 years old). This is my first film to be released in the domestic theaters. Although it is the first time, I have never broken the space and human emotions here, so I think, mine Emotion is "like the return of Yan Yan."

"Long Confession" stills

Talk about creation

Starting from space, pursue true emotions

Red Star News: It is said that you almost "tailored" the role of Liu Chuan for Ni Ni. What is the process of choosing her? What is the point that moves you most?

Zhang Lu: "Tailor -made" is not necessarily accurate. When I was making a movie, the characters were generally as close as the actor itself, because the actors who completed the character on the screen in the end, the place where the character and the actors are overlapping, the shooting will be "less effective" -hamn if the movie will be more effective. If the movie will be taken. From the actor's body, it will be shot more smoothly.

Cooperation with Ni Ni is an accidental and natural process. Because I have n’t worked in China for a long time, I am actually very strange to the domestic film industry, and I am confused in the face of the choice of actors. At this time, the production company will find some actress information, and I see Ni Ni.

I have watched a movie she starred in in the past called "Jinling Thirteen Sisters". I have only watched her film so far. At that time, I was very impressed with this actress. When I saw some of her photos this time, I wanted to contact her. The producer gave her a script to her brokerage company, and Ni Ni soon feedback it. The two of us met, that is, chatting, and talked about about twenty minutes. Essence In fact, sometimes choosing really rely on a sense of intuition, I feel like she, and then cooperate together. After shooting, I think now, if it wasn't for Ni Ni, I couldn't imagine it. She completed the role very well. Ni Ni is very accurate to grasp the rhythm of Liuchuan. Her sense of balance and rhythm is right in that space in that space. The most difficult for actors is also this.

Red Star News: Remember there is a line in the movie: "What kind of world, people's hearts are not ancient." Can you interpret this line?

Zhang Lu: Because in any era, any parents often say this. In fact, this sentence has a good side and a bad side. The bad side is a bit of contempt for young people. The good side is to say the emotions of the old age, those emotions, not to say that it can be thrown away at once, it can continue. This sentence seems to continue (I) will keep talking in the future.

Red Star News: After the movie is released, there will be some controversy, such as the discussion of the setting of the plot figures, what do you think of these disputes?

Zhang Lu: I don't care about the dispute at all, I think all the disputes may be right. After a creator finished filming, it has nothing to do with yourself. After you send it away, what others say to it are derived from everyone's life experience, growth background and emotional state.

Red Star News: There is a voice saying that the emotions expressed in "Long Confession" poked a lot of middle -aged people. What do you think about this? Are you worried that young audiences can't understand the view of the movie?

Zhang Lu: When I created it as a creator, I didn't think about it at all. However, as far as the movie is concerned, the love among them is indeed not the love of young people in the age of 20. I experienced a lot when I was middle -aged and would bring a lot of reflection on past life experience and emotions, so I might feel more. But please rest assured that this movie has a new definition for "like" and "dislike" after watching "like" and "dislike" after watching it.

"Long Confession" stills

Red Star News: "Long Confession" has gained a good reputation, but it is slightly strenuous in the performance of the box office. At present, the box office is 6 million. What do you think of such achievements?

Zhang Lu: This is not what I can control. This may also be a process, because the lack of experience in the release channels of domestic literary films now. Like foreign abroad, there is a special literary and art cinema on literary films. Literary and artistic films can be screened for a long time. There are some stars or touching things in the film. The art cinema lines and commercial theaters can be released at the same time, which is ideal. Red Star News: Some people say that Zhang Li has evolved. What do you think is the biggest breakthrough and change of "Long Confession" compared to the past?

Zhang Lu: Actually, I don't know, I think it's almost the same. This is a natural process. After the creator completed it, the work was handed over to the interpreter. Finally, the cleaned the better.

Red Star News: Some people's evaluation of this movie is "unknown and lightly moved", which is also a unique aura and style in your creation. What kind of experience and accumulation gives you such a style?

Zhang Lu: I don't want this either, but just say that everyone's personality, way of dealing with things, and the rhythm of speaking are different. I may not be able to adapt to the emotional expression of being shocked, joyful, and dying. It is often the kind of silent state that can be moved by my own life, or what I want to miss, is often the kind of calm, but the emotional state of continuous surging in my heart. There is nothing wrong with this kind of thing, just comfortable yourself.

Red Star reporter Zhang Shihao Intern Tao Yuyan Zhao Yaoyao editor Zhang Shihao. According to the film

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