This director loves making friends.

Lin Guobin didn't have many scenes in "Chasing the Wild Wolves". His original plan was to stay in mainland China for a while after filming the movie, which could be considered as an "escape" for a period of time to break up with Anita Mui.

He didn't need to guess to know how the Hong Kong media and paparazzi would portray him after breaking up with Anita Mui.

As the saying goes, plans can't keep up with changes.

After finishing filming his scenes in "The Hunt for the Wild Wolves," Lam Kwok-pan rushed back to Hong Kong. As the male lead in "A Bittersweet Life," he should have gone to the Cannes Film Festival with the director.

Even if he didn't want to go back to Hong Kong to face paparazzi and the media, he was even more unwilling to miss the opportunity to go to Cannes with the film crew.

Lin Guobin waited and waited, until a week before the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, but still had not received an invitation call or notification.

He panicked.

This made him think more.

"Is it because I broke up with Amei that nobody cares about me anymore? Without Amei, I'm nothing?"

Lin Guobin really wanted to ask Yong Sheng if this was the reason why he was unwilling to take him to Cannes.

However, considering the reasons for his breakup with Anita Mui, he ultimately did not go to Win's Entertainment.

In fact, the two Xiang brothers of Yongsheng have been arguing about this matter for some time now.

Xiang Huaqiang felt that "A Bittersweet Life" had entered the main competition, which was a rare opportunity for Win's Entertainment. Win's Entertainment should, as the producer, organize a team to go to Cannes in advance and try to help "A Bittersweet Life" to see if it could win an award.

Of course, Yong Sheng had no connections in Cannes. His underlying intention was to spend money, firstly to try to build connections in Cannes, and secondly to get closer to Qin Keqing and tie him to Yong Sheng's ship.

Xiang Huasheng disagreed with doing so.

He believes that since the European and American rights to "A Bittersweet Life" are not in the hands of Win's Entertainment, and Win's Entertainment has already invested an extra million, why should they invest more money to operate it?

Is it really that easy to go to Cannes?

Money is needed in all aspects, not to mention that if you want to run an award, the cost will be huge, and it will be in US dollars, not Hong Kong dollars.

It's not worth it.

Win's Entertainment produces commercial films, and its market is entirely in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and Japan and South Korea. These places have already made Win's Entertainment a lot of money, so it's definitely the best choice to take advantage of the current good market and produce more commercial films.

Can art films make money?

You can't make a damn profit!

Art films are all money-losers; otherwise, with so many filmmakers in Hong Kong, they would have all flocked to make art films long ago.

While award-winning films can indeed earn some copyright fees, winning awards is not that easy.

If you don't win an award, almost all your investment is wasted.

Why not take advantage of the current market boom and make quick money?

The two Xiang brothers argued for a long time, but neither could convince the other, and the matter remained deadlocked.

So, not only was Lin Guobin getting impatient, but Zhu Yin, another leading actress who wanted to make an appearance at Cannes, was also getting impatient. The difference was that Lin Guobin was "feeling sorry for himself," while Zhu Yin had no worries at all; she had Stephen Chow.

The news that Zhou Xingxing brought back greatly disappointed Zhu Yin. Yong Sheng had not yet made a final decision, but it was highly unlikely that they would organize the crew to go to Cannes.

This is a great opportunity to make an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival. Not only will you walk the red carpet at the opening ceremony, but you might also attend the closing ceremony. The world's media will be paying attention.

The young Zhu Yin was extremely disappointed.

Stephen Chow isn't exactly a chivalrous person. He doesn't have many friends, and his relationship with most directors is just so-so. If it were any other director, he wouldn't bother to find a way to help Zhu Yin or speak up for her. But since the director is his good friend Qin Keqing, what can he do?

So he managed to contact Qin Keqing—since the production company Win's Entertainment might not go to Cannes, having the director take them along would be just as good.

Qin Keqing was also surprised.

Why isn't Yong Sheng coming to Cannes?

He thought that the Yong Sheng Society had organized a group of people to bring the male lead, Lin Guodong, and the female lead, Zhu Yin, to Cannes.

It seems that Hong Kong films during this period were indeed very superficial, perhaps because they were too "prosperous". They could make money by making films casually, so why would they care about Europe or Hollywood?

Since Yong Sheng might not come, Qin Keqing understood the reason for Zhou Xingxing's call after a little thought.

"Ah Xing, make sure Zhu Yin comes to Cannes on May 13th. Don't let her miss the opening ceremony red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. This is a great opportunity for Zhu Yin."

Zhou Xingxing laughed. Qin Keqing was indeed a good friend; he had achieved his goal before he even explained.

"Ah Qing, thank you."

Stephen Chow was very happy and felt very proud.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Keqing thought for a moment and then called Lin Guobin's home.

"Bin, if you're available, pack your bags and come to Cannes before the festival opens. I'd love to walk the red carpet with you."

Hearing Qin Keqing's words, Lin Guobin was so excited. He had almost given up, but he never expected that Director Qin would still think of him.

"Thank you, Director Qin. Thank you. I will definitely be there on time. Don't worry, I won't make any mistakes."

Lin Guobin was so excited because he didn't expect Qin Keqing to invite him.

During the filming of "A Sweet Life", his relationship with Qin Keqing was not very good, and he still had some resentment towards Qin Keqing because Qin Keqing "revealed" the truth and told him that he was able to get the lead role because of Anita Mui's influence.

This is what Lin Guobin is most wary of, and it was for this reason that he broke up with Anita Mui recently.

At that moment, Lin Guobin suddenly realized, what did Director Qin do wrong? He was just encouraging himself and didn't mean to look down on him at all. How could I be so narrow-minded?

"I'm not human!"

"I'm sorry, Director Qin."

"Director Qin is the most respectable person!"

……

The 46th Cannes International Film Festival is about to open, and Diamond Pictures is starting to make its move.

Many places in Cannes now have GG signs for "A Bittersweet Life," and Qin Keqing, a relatively unknown new director, has been the subject of numerous media interviews, including several exclusive interviews.

In the media's eyes, Qin Keqing is a genius director with great talent and ideas. He was an important member of last year's Golden Lion Award-winning film "The Story of Qiu Ju" and the assistant director of this year's Golden Bear Award-winning film "Woman Sesame Oil Maker". He played an extremely important role in both film crews.

Some media outlets even made special phone interviews with Zhang Yimou and Xie Fei, highlighting their key points and publishing them in their newspapers.

Neither Zhang Yimou nor Xie Fei would speak ill of Qin Keqing; they would certainly praise her.

Thus, Zhang Yimou said, "Qin Keqing is a true genius. He has an extremely keen sense of smell. It was precisely because I saw this that I strongly invited him to join 'The Story of Qiu Ju'..."

Thus, Xie Fei said, "Qin Keqing has extremely outstanding talent, is very thoughtful and insightful, and has a keen intuition for film and television art. I was greatly inspired by him during the filming of 'Woman Sesame Oil Maker'..."

If you only read the newspaper reports, you might think that Qin Keqing played a very important role in Zhang Yimou and Xie Fei winning the award.

Regardless, Qin Keqing had already gained considerable fame before the Cannes Film Festival opened.

"How is it? Are you satisfied?"

Pierre-Lessent glanced at the large stack of different newspapers on the table and asked with a smile.

Qin Keqing exclaimed, "I never imagined that Diamond Pictures had such great power."

"Haha, they do have influence, but not this much, at least not enough to affect the media closely associated with Cannes. But now, all those media outlets have reports about you. Guess how that happened? Haha..."

Qin Keqing didn't guess.

But he knew that the Camera d'Or, which is awarded to the best directorial debut feature film at the Cannes Film Festival, was most likely a sure thing.