Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years-Chapter 434 - 425: Palme d’Or Grand Prize (Part 2)

You could even consider this as a deep and touching film. Through delicate storytelling and realistic character portrayals, it allows the audience to deeply understand the true meaning of family.

The film, with its delicate, warm storytelling style and profound insight into human nature, scored a high 3.4 points in the journal rating, breaking the record for this year's Cannes and becoming a new favorite.

The highest previous score was by the Coen brothers' new work "Inside Llewyn Davis" which led with 3.3 points, while "A Touch of Sin" was in second place with 3 points.

Koreeda Hirokazu's "Like Father, Like Son" scored 2.5 points.

Of course, the Cannes Film Festival's journal score cannot serve as the final basis for the Golden Palm Award, and there's even talk that films with the highest scores historically mostly fail to win the Golden Palm.

Statistics show that over the past fifteen years, only four films with the top journal score won the Golden Palm.

And the only Chinese film to date that has won Cannes Film Festival's highest honor, the Golden Palm Award, "Farewell My Concubine," topped the journal rating with 3.6 points when it won the Golden Palm.

Qi Hao is also quite uncertain about whether he can win the Golden Palm.

The Venice Film Festival emphasizes artistic balance, the Berlin Film Festival stresses the director's personal style, while Cannes is known for encouraging innovation and creativity.

As a young director, he logically fits the standard that should be encouraged.

However, Cannes Film Festival is the most conservative among A-class film festivals.

Directors from Cannes usually have a clear path: being selected for parallel units, entering the main competition, becoming jury members, repeatedly being selected for the main competition, and after winning a few awards, whether they can win the Golden Palm is a matter of fate.

So in Cannes, surprises are not guaranteed at all.

Two days later, the lesbian-themed film "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" scored a high 3.6 points, overtaking "Shoplifters" to become the top scorer.

The director Abdellatif Kechiche, who previously directed "Couscous," tells the story of two lesbian girls from meeting to drifting apart in this three-hour film, using extremely delicate and vivid techniques, making audiences tearful.

The film's high score put great pressure on the jury members who might not have initially intended to favor it.

Even Qi Hao's most steadfast ally, Christoph Waltz, expressed his concern about Qi Hao winning the Golden Palm.

And informed Qi Hao that the jury was currently seriously divided.

Unexpectedly, Qi Hao's biggest supporter was not his fellow Chinese, Li An, who instead appreciated the lesbian film "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" more.

Aside from Christoph Waltz, Nicole Kidman also strongly supported Qi Hao.

Additionally, Indian actress Vidya Balan supported Qi Hao as well.

Probably because he's handsome, the two beautiful jury members favored Qi Hao.

Neon jury member Naomi Kawase was more supportive of "Like Father, Like Son."

The last jury member Cristian Mungiu was more supportive of "Blue Is the Warmest Colour."

Of the seven jury members, three supported Qi Hao, two supported "Blue Is the Warmest Colour," one supported "Like Father, Like Son," and the jury president Spielberg's attitude was crucial.

But Spielberg remained without an opinion.

He genuinely enjoyed chatting with Qi Hao, but he himself belongs to the particularly conservative type.

And conservative figures are particularly prone to follow the conventional path, such as first getting selected for parallel units, then entering the main competition, winning a few small awards before vying for the major one.

Qi Hao made two preparations.

After the film's release, it was scheduled for screening in Xiangjiang to participate in the registration for this year's Golden Image Award.

If he doesn't get it in Cannes, he'll get it in Xiangjiang.

At worst, there's still the Shen City International Film Festival.

With these three guarantees in place, it's unlikely he will fail everywhere.

Therefore, Qi Hao was very calm, and even had spare time to accept several media interviews, both domestic and international.

Even a French business channel had an exclusive interview with him.

This was somewhat laughable.

However, Qi Hao still went to attend and discussed economic topics.

He obtained a lot of future business information, gaining insights from Apple, Tesla, and Sina, and his broad reading naturally kept him from being embarrassed in the interview.

Of course, he couldn't provide the French audience with anything of substantial value.

After watching his business interview, they felt he was impressive, his success wasn't groundless or lucky.

But trying to extract useful information from it and follow him to the pinnacle of life is purely a dream.

Time quickly reached the day of the closing ceremony.

Qi Hao had already been here for ten days, each day seeing his wife and child only through video, and was eager to get back home.

To hell with the Golden Palm Award.

If only he had accepted the Shen City International Film Festival's jury invitation earlier, then winning Best Film at the Student Film Festival would've been sufficient.

In the capital, he could still see his child.

On the red carpet of the closing ceremony, the most prominent figure was Fan Xuexue. She had already attended the opening ceremony once before.

It was a commercial event.

A few days ago, she also attended a party called "Fan Xuexue Night" held specially for her by the film magazine "Hollywood Reporter" at Cannes, which awarded her "International Performer of the Year," a new award established by the magazine.