On the last day of April, all Wang Dalun's scenes in "Xiao Wu" were completed, and he rushed back to the capital that day. Zhang Yuan had called several times before, one of which was bad news. Wang Xiaobo, the screenwriter of "East Palace and West Palace", unfortunately passed away on April 11 due to a heart attack. He could not catch up with the memorial service on April 26. The following calls were urging him to return to the capital at the end of April, and it is said that he had to go to Cannes in advance.

As soon as the bus that Wang Dalun took arrived at the capital, he received a message from Zhang Yuan calling him, asking him to contact him quickly when he arrived in the capital.

"What, I'll leave tomorrow?"

Wang Dalun didn't bother to go home, so he called Zhang Yuan as soon as the bus came on and made an appointment to meet him in a teahouse. Zhang Yuan looked very haggard. The first sentence after the meeting was to prepare Wang Dalun and prepare to fly to France early tomorrow morning.

"If I don't leave, I'm worried that I won't leave then." Zhang Yuan rubbed his face with both hands and showed his fatigue.

"Why?" Wang Dalun asked hurriedly.

In Zhang Yuan's intermittent words, he finally understood the reason.

It turned out that the Cannes International Film Festival Organizing Committee had just announced the films shortlisted for each screening unit, with a total of three Chinese shortlisted. Unfortunately, "East Palace West Palace" was not shortlisted for the main competition unit, but only the "One Attention" unit.

Director Zhang Da’s transformation work, known as the largest director in China, was only shortlisted for the non-contest screening unit.

Only Hong Kong director Wang Sunjing directed by stars such as Leslie Cheung, Liang Chaowei joined "Spring Light" and ranked one of the 20 main competition units, becoming the most dazzling among the three Chinese-language films.

However, it is said that "Spring Light" is also a homosexual and love-themed movie. Perhaps it was because of the appearance of this movie that "East Palace and West Palace" was eventually defeated in the main competition unit.

But no matter what, it is a good thing for Chinese films to appear at the Cannes Film Festival at the same time. Moreover, this year coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Cannes International Film Festival, which is even more commemorative.

However, in the eyes of relevant departments, "East Palace and West Palace" is like a rat shit mixed into a pot of fragrant meat porridge. Especially this movie that they repeatedly banned and slandered the image of socialism and suspected of promoting corrupt thinking appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, and was above the level of "Say What to Say" recommended by them, which can represent the level of Chinese films. This is really intolerable. For relevant departments, it is a blatant challenge to their authority. So they immediately slipped over and severely scolded him, and ordered him to remove the movie from Cannes and wait for further processing by the organization.

Zhang Yuan is an old man and has already thought of a countermeasure. He spread his hands and told the relevant departments that the movie was invested by the French, the boss, and the exhibition was also sent by the others. He was just a director and there was no way.

A typical **********, the relevant departments can't bite the French eggs even if they bite a hundred eggs. However, it is said that the relevant departments are very determined this time. They have sent a letter to the Cannes International Film Festival, asking them to remove the "East Palace and West Palace". The French have not yet responded. In order to prevent the night from growing and dreaming, Zhang Yuan decided to leave quickly during the May Day holiday, otherwise they might not be able to leave. The relevant departments can do anything.

Well, I will have to catch a plane tomorrow morning. Wang Dalun quickly went home to clean up, and at the same time contacted Peter Chen immediately. He had to wear clothes from other brands when walking on the red carpet. Fortunately, the clothes were already ready and were placed in the Beijing office. Peter Chen hurriedly informed them to send the clothes to Wang Dalun.

At 7:30 in the morning, Wang Dalun and Zhang Yuan met at the International Departure Entrance of Capital Airport.

"Zhang Jian hasn't arrived yet?"

"No, I agreed on the phone yesterday to meet at the door 10." Zhang Yuan seemed a little anxious.

"Come on, just smoke two cigarettes first."

As soon as he entered the airport for more than ten hours, Wang Dalun took out the cigarette, handed it to Zhang Yuan, and smiled and said, "The plane at nine o'clock is still one and a half hours, why are you anxious?"

Zhang Yuan pointed at his eyes and said, "My right eyelid has been pounding again from last night to now, and I am always worried that something will happen."

"Oh, I said, brother, we're going to get on the plane soon. Don't you say these unlucky ones?" Wang Dalun said hurriedly.

Zhang Yuan thought about it, and forced a smile at him, apologized, took a deep breath of cigarettes, and said with a wry smile: "You don't know that so many things have happened during this period. First, Xiaobo left, and then the relevant departments have broken things. This time it hits their sore spot. They want to maintain their so-called bullshit authority, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to give up this time. I am just worried that Cannes will remove our film."

"Will the French listen to them too?" Wang Darenqi said.

"This is politics, you don't understand." Zhang Yuan sighed, then shook his head again, and said, "Actually, I don't understand either."

Well, this is not easy to answer. The two stood next to the trash can and finished smoking a cigarette silently. Seeing that Zhang Yuan was in a bad mood, Wang Dalun must have not had a good sleep, so he said, "Or why don't you go in and rest first, I'll wait for Zhang Jian here."

"No need, I guess it's almost time to arrive."

As he was talking, a taxi stopped "crunched" and saw Zhang Jian rushing out of the car and busy driving the trunk to carry his luggage. Seeing this, Wang Dalun hurried over to help.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. When I went out in the morning, I was chattering and wasting my time. Have you come early?"

"No, we just arrived. Do you want to have some fun before going in?" Wang Dalun said.

Zhang Jian wanted to smoke a cigarette, but when he saw Zhang Yuan's face, he immediately shook his head and said, "Forget it, I see Lao Zhang as if he is absent-minded. Let's go in first."

Wang Dalun was very eyebrowed and quickly found a small cart to move the luggage of the three people up and pushed it towards the customs. Because it was a holiday and it was another morning flight, there were not many people queuing up at the customs. Soon it was the turn. Zhang Jian was the first to pass the customs. When it was Zhang Yuan's turn, there was trouble. The customs officials asked him to wait a moment, then waved to Wang Dalun and signaled him to pass the customs.

Seeing this, Wang Dalun couldn't care about passing the test and hurried over and asked Zhang Yuan: "What's going on?"

"What else can I do? Don't let me go out!" Zhang Yuan sneered. However, he looked calm.

"Damn it, he really told me." Wang Dalun cursed secretly and could only accompany Zhang Yuan. After a while, a staff member of the border inspection station came over and asked Zhang Yuan to come.

At this time, Zhang Jian, who had passed the check-up, was also very anxious and stood at the door and asked what was going on.

"Brother Jian, please wait first, I'll go over and take a look."

Wang Dalun replied to him, and hurriedly pushed his luggage and followed him over.

When he arrived at the airport office, Wang Dalun wanted to go in with him, but was stopped by the staff.

"He is my friend."

Zhang Yuan is also a celebrity of not too big or too small. The staff member was quite polite. After hesitating for a moment, he agreed.

After entering the office, there was nothing big. The main reason was that he was afraid that if there was a big argument outside, the capital airport had to represent the face of the capital. So the staff invited Zhang Yuan into the office and then officially conveyed the decisions of the relevant parties to him, restricting his recent appearance and his passport was temporarily detained.

"Do you still want to arrest me?" Zhang Yuan asked with a sneer.

"We are only implementing the decisions of the relevant departments and do not restrict your freedom of movement in China. Mr. Zhang, please understand." The staff said very politely.

The passport was confiscated, and it would be useless to argue with them even if they had a big fuss. As soon as they came out, Wang Dalun asked anxiously: "Then will we go?"

"Go, why not? I guess the French must have refused to take down our movie, so they were anxious to stop me from attending the film festival. These Dogs are raised!" Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "In this way, I will call Lao Ke first and tell him about the situation."

Zhang Yuan found a public telephone, dialed the international long distance, and contacted Lao Ke. As Zhang Yuan said, just yesterday, the organizing committee of the Cannes International Film Festival officially rejected the request of the relevant departments to remove the movie "East Palace and West Palace".

"Dalun, you and Zhang Jian go over. Lao Ke will pick you up at the airport. Everything has been arranged there. They can prohibit me from leaving the country, but they cannot prohibit our movies from participating in the Cannes Film Festival. Go and have a long experience. If you don't have a chance this time, let's wait for the next time. Don't worry, I owe you a movie emperor." Before leaving, Zhang Yuan patted Wang Dalun's shoulder to comfort him.

"East Palace and West Palace" was not shortlisted for the main competition unit, which means that Wang Dalun lost the qualification to compete for the actor. Although Wang Dalun was very disappointed, he was not so arrogant that he insisted on winning the actor in Cannes.

Wang Dalun could only nod his head silently. When he finished the exit procedures at the customs counter, when he turned around, he found that Zhang Yuan was still standing there, waving goodbye to him.

Wang Dalun also waved at him. He knew that Zhang Yuan must be very sorry, but sometimes reality is so cruel.

Lufthansa's flight stopped by Frankfurt and arrived at Nice Airport in France at 5 pm local time. Lao Ke was already waiting to greet him at the airport.

Because Zhang Yuan was restricted from leaving the country, everyone was in a heavy mood. After hugging and greeting, they hurried to Cannes.

Although Cannes and Nice are two cities, the two places are only twenty kilometers apart, less than half an hour's drive away, which is about the same time as the Beijing-city district and Capital Airport.

Lao Ke was very busy and took them to the hotel and said goodbye. Wang Dalun and Zhang Jian sat in the room and stared at each other.

"What are we doing?" Wang Dalun asked.

"What else can I do? Just wait!" Zhang Jian yawned. It was almost early morning in Beijing at this time, and the jet lag had not yet reversed.

Because Zhang Yuan did not come, Lao Ke was quite conscientious and did not cancel the room he had booked in advance. Wang Dalun and Zhang Jian were one room each, which also saved him from Zhang Jian's bagpipe-like snoring.

So they were like when they were in Matabrata. In the next few days, they were wandering around Cannes. Cannes was much smaller than Matabrata, with a total population of only 70,000, but there were a lot of tourists from all over the world. May has entered the peak tourist season, in addition to the International Film Festival, there are also International Rowing Festival, International Music Record Festival, Mimosa Festival and so on. Of course, the grandest and most famous is the two-week international film festival, not to mention that this year is the 50th anniversary celebration.
Chapter completed!