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August 12,

"Long Confession" is released,

Starring Ni Ni, Zhang Luyi, Xin Baiqing.

The story tells that when the teenager, the two brothers liked the same woman,

When people go to middle age, go to Lichuan, Japan to find her.

Some audiences said: This is the best love movie that has been watching these years,

Long and worried, let people understand the truth of love.

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Liuchuan (Ni Ni) suddenly disappeared 20 years ago and has been wandering outside

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Lichun (Xin Baiqing) and Lidong (Zhang Luyi) both like Liuchuan

Director Zhang Lu made more than 20 years of movies,

This is the first time that his movie has been released in China.

He has already been famous and is a frequent visitor to the International Film Festival.

The three major European Film Festival runs,

The Busan Film Festival invites his film to do the opening film,

But in China, there are not many people who know him.

Zhang Lu was born in Yanbian, Jilin, China,

It is a Korean,

40 years old only entered the industry to make a film,

Start with the first short film "11 years old",

Follow the survival situation of the Korean group in China.

In the past 10 years, he teaches at Yanshi University in South Korea,

At the same time cooperate with top Korean actors,

Taking "Spring Dream", "Yong Goose", "Qingzhou" and other works,

The movie is a lingering polygonal love,

Behind it about his own identity and the sorrows of the hometown,

And complex Northeast Asian cultural background.

In 2020, Zhang Lu returned to China to shoot "Long Confession",

In this way, we talk to him about movies and talk about the past.

Written article: Hong Bing Chan

Responsible editor: Ni Chujiao

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Meeting the middle -aged reunion, the three people strolled around the streets of Liuchuan, each had their own minds.

Zhang Lu likes to shoot polynoma.

Two men, one woman, three men and one woman, three women and one man, who is one pair, who is pretending to be, like the glass fans of the winter night tavern, only a vague shadow.

"All love is multi -corner, at least the triangle." He always thought that if there was only one man and a woman in the world, there would be no love. If the audience only see a man and one woman, maybe there are two people thinking about them.

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Liuchuan was once the lover of his brother Lichun, and his brother Lidong has secretly fell in love with her from a young age

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Zhongshan Dashu (Chisong Zhuangliang) also has an ambiguous affection for Liuchuan

The character relationship of "Long Confession" is Zhang Lu's triangle relationship, which is his consistent "torrential love story".

The brothers grew up in Beijing with Liu Chuan, and they both liked her. Liuchuan suddenly disappeared. Twenty years later, the younger brother Lidong had cancer, and there was not much time. It was the same place as her brother Lichun, which was the same as her name.

However, he saw the woman who missed, but he did not say a confession.

This is the charm of Zhang Lu's movie -even if life is almost at the end, the hero and heroine are still chatting, walking, and unclear.

Zhang Luo was asked: "Why do you have to make your feelings so ambiguous?" He explained: "It is not emotional, but the background of our lives. Movies are not enough for life than life."

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Liuchuan sang John Lennon and the ancient ballad "Autumn Liu" in the tavern

The secret love and triangle love are just the surface of this film.

If you are more sensitive, you will find his hidden line. For example, Liuchuan is a person who wandered out in 20 years and reunited with his past lover. She said: "Where there is a brother of Lichun, it is his hometown."

They are obviously Beijing, but the accents of the brothers are completely different. Liu Chuan speaks Chinese, the owner of the tavern speaks Japanese, and they speak their own words, but they can communicate smoothly.

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Zhang Lu was interviewed in Beijing in Beijing

These ambiguous parts that are unclear are to find clues from Zhang Lu's own identity background.

Zhang Lu was born in Yanbian, Jilin in 1962. It is a small village near the border between the Central and North Korea and the Soviet Union. There are mostly North Koreans, and the Tujiang River is North Korea. His elder generation immigrated from South Korea to China, and Zhang Lu's mother did not speak Chinese.

Refugees, small vendors, miners, gamblers, prostitutes, these people constitute Zhang Lu's childhood and youth. They are both geographical margins and the edge of social structure.

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"Long Confession" stills

In the 1980s, Zhang Lu was admitted to the Chinese Department of Yanbian University and stayed in school after graduation. For nearly 20 years, he was a scholar, writing novels, writing poems. It was not until the beginning of the century that he was almost 40 years old that he made the first film "Eleven years old", and was shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival as soon as he shot.

In 2012, Zhang Li, 50, was invited to teach in Yanshi University, one of the S.K.Y (three universities) in South Korea, and then entered the Korean film industry. "State", "Spring Dream", "Yong Goose" and "Fukuoka" several literary temperament works have established personal styles: in the poetic and bland men and women's ambiguous affairs, see the culture and politics of Northeast Asia.

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"Yong Goose" male and female protagonist, Park Hairi and Wen Suli

Zhang Lu's reputation internationally became more and more famous.

In South Korea, Zhang Lu took "Yong Goose" to the Busan Film Festival to participate in the master unit. The media asked, why is Zhang Lu so attractive to the best actors in South Korea?

Film actor Wen Suli, played Li Cangdong's "Mint", "Oasis", Park Zanyu's "Miss". Hong Shangxiu, the most prestigious literary film director in South Korea, came to her, and she also rejected many times. But Zhang Lu asked her, she did not hesitate to agree.

Zhang Lu's royal actor Park Hairi just collaborated with Tang Wei's "Determination of Breakup" with Tang Wei, and was in the limelight of the Cannes Film Festival. The fledgling Siman Dan appeared in Zhang Lu's film twice. At the same time, she performed Feng Junhao's "Parasite". "Parasitic" became the most successful Korean movie in history. Essence

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"Spring Dream" heroine Han Yili

There is also the heroine Han Yili of "Spring Dream", which later appeared in "Minari", and "Minari" also swept the major awards in Europe and the United States.

But all this seems to have nothing to do with Zhang Lu.

What about the film industry in China? The last time Zhang Li filmed a movie in China in 2010, it has been too long in the past. Even fans will be stunned, isn't Zhang Lu be Korean? Why suddenly came to China to shoot?

His works often go to the three major film festivals in Europe. He appeared in the list with Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye, but he could not use the "Chinese director" to classify him. When talking about Zhang Lu, he talked about that he was like Hong Shangxiu and Kim Kidd, and placed him in the score of Korean movies.

Now he moved back to Beijing to live, but the faction of domestic filmmakers, he is far away, this boss, the big cow, he is also born. When he went to the kind of social bureau, he sat on the wine table and liked a glass of drinking white wine. If he was not an acquaintance, he had very little words, and he would not be able to dance and dance well.

In any circle, he is a person who is out. A bureau foreigner always seems to be there, but it is not there; it seems that it is a state that is not.

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"Long Confession" stills

Where is the hometown, from a very young age, it is a problem.

Is it a small village in Yanbian? Or is it farther? "Nostalgia becomes a very real thing, come out from time to time."

His movie's mother's question can't bypass the people of foreign countries. Almost every one can salvage people who have lost their hometown.

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"Dream of Desert" tells the story of a Mongolian man and the mother and son of the Korean family, shortlisted for the Berlin Golden Bear Award

In "The Dream of Desert" (2007), a pair of mothers and children who fled from North Korea ran to the desert at the border of China and Mongolia, planting trees, milking, and wanted to keep another home.

"Lili" (2008), a truck equipped with 40 tons of gunpowder drove to Liliyi, and fried the village to be omnipotent. Overnight, the people here and their descendants completely lost their hometown.

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The three men who have a secret heroine in "The Dream of Spring" are played by Liang Yizhun, Park Tingfan, Yin Zhongbin, director of literary film director

In "The Dream of Spring" (2016), the heroine is the illegitimate daughter of a Korean man in China. He left his hometown to South Korea, but he could only become a paralyzed father. She reads "Jing Ye Si" in Chinese: "Looking at Mingyue, thinking about his hometown."

The most mature work "Tu Lijiang" (2010), the story comes from his childhood memory. In winter, children on both sides of the border will play in the icing maps. They speak the same language, eat almost food, and have similar faces. It looks unusual. However, children cannot cross the river completely.

In the movie, the women in the village will leave their hometown to work in South Korea in order to maintain their livelihood. The visa procedures are extremely complicated.

In the past, China and South Korea had not yet established diplomatic relations. When it was very difficult to go abroad, Zhang Lu's uncle would take a piece of tofu to persuade him to drink a glass of wine: "At this time, the persimmons of his hometown should be cooked." Zhang Lu heard the sadness in the words: " We live in a ravine in Jilin. If we do not produce persimmons, we will imagine the persimmon trees in my hometown. "

More cases, returning to their hometown is a futile.

Zhang Lu went to South Korea for the first time in 1995, like a tourist. "Out of the airport, a bunch of relatives who have never met to invite me to dinner. They asked, the Chinese team and the South Korean team played, who stood?"

"This is our reality." Zhang Li smiled bitterly.

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In "Qingzhou", Park Hairi explained to Shen Min'er's meaning in Feng Zikai's painting

The cultural elements of several countries in Northeast Asia appeared in Zhang Lu's movies.

In "Qingzhou" (2014), he simply set the leading actor to a Korean political scholar taught at Peking University, Northeast Asian political scholars, smoking Zhongnanhai to smoke, and marrying a Chinese wife. The encountering Qingzhou woman, Feng Zikai's paintings were hung at home. The actor reads the poems in Chinese painting: "After the people are scattered, a crescent moon is like water."

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Park Hairi dances in the tavern "Yong Goose"

"Yong Goose" (2018) uses Tang poetry to make a film name. The Korean filmmaker did not understand the meaning of "Yong Goose" and could not sell it. Zhang Lu said: "In this poem, Chinese people will, children will shake their heads and goose, geese."

He likes to set up misplaced characters.

Take the peripheral relationship of the actor of "Yong Goose" as an example. His father is a Korean sailor. His mother is from the US -US military base. The nanny of the family comes from Mingdong Village, Jilin. It is a descendant of the Korean poet Yin Dongzhu, born in the northeast and died in Japan. The woman he secretly loved, the ancestors almost settled in the northeast. Even the homestays he lived were drove by a Korean Japanese.

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"Fukuoka" talks about a Korean girl and uncle, running to find a classmate who is uncle's breakdown, they once fell in love with the same woman

Language is also misplaced.

In "Fukuoka" (2019), Korean girls read "Jin Ping Mei", and Chinese women read Murakami Spring Tree. They each speak their mother tongue, but they can communicate freely. "You can understand Chinese, strange, I can understand Korean." The audience outside the screen would smile. Isn't this what the bilateral speaker Zhang Lu can complete? ▲

Zhang Lu and Ni Ni and Zhang Luyi are on the set

From the perspective of others, Zhang Lu's life has several important decisions.

People started making movies until middle age, suddenly disappeared for ten years, and ran to South Korea to shoot again. They returned when they came back at the age of 60.

But in Zhang Lu's narrative, he had no plan, that is, "follow the waves" and "too idle in the bones."

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The first short film "11 years old", talking about a Korean boy playing alone in the mine

He didn't understand the movie at all. Before the age of 40, Zhang Lu taught at Yanbian University in Jilin.

Because of writing novels, he and South Korean director Li Cangdong have long been friends. One year, Zhang Lu went to Li Cangdong's house. "He suddenly said that he was making a movie and asked me to go to the studio. I didn't go. I said you were okay."

As for why I started making a movie, I just wanted to make "Tu Liang River", I just wanted to shoot that one to tell the story of the foreign country. So to what extent when the director wants to be, he has no ambitions, and he has passed on.

"People who are 40 years old, what else do you have to develop? Everyone said that I am crazy, impossible, at that time they were films, who gave you money?"

So starting from the short film, while shooting and waiting, 50 years old, finally can make "Tu River". After the shooting, he felt that his wish was already, and he was exhausted. Then he claimed that this was Zhang Lu's last movie, staying at home, nothing.

After playing for two years, he was almost 50 years old. He realized that a simple truth. If people do not work, they will indeed have no money. It happened that Yan Shi University found him. He thought, anyway, he was a person who didn't know, so he would talk about conditions. "Give me so much money, why not go?"

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The story of "Qingzhou" comes from 1995. Zhang Lu and Li Cangdong's two brothers went to the teahouse in Qingzhou to drink tea.

As for why he continued to make a film, he explained that he was really not diligent and blame the ears.

During class, the student encouraged him to continue shooting. He agreed and filmed "Qingzhou". "Just violate the promise of the last film, but later discovered that life must be violated."

For 10 years in South Korea, Zhang Li also separated his wife for 10 years.

His wife wanted to stay in Beijing even more, so Zhang Lu spent an amazing time on the plane. After class, I ran to the airport and stayed back in Beijing for a few days. Of course it is tired, but the distance is not all bad things. "Sometimes Chami oil and salt quarrel because there is no roundabout. After that, you have to see it once, you are too close to you, right?"

After the epidemic, the days of running two places are no longer realistic. He also climbed up to the age of 60 and felt that it was time to let go of teaching. So he resigned and moved back to Beijing to reunite with his wife and children.

Before that, his friends advised him to return to China to make a movie, every time he was excited, but he was lazy, for fear of not knowing people, and afraid of not getting used to it. If you come back now, if he wants to have time, he still has to take a few. In addition to "Long Confession", he also killed "The Light of White Tower" this year.

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In "Long Confession", the river has repeatedly appeared as an important image

Taking "Long Confession" stems from a joke.

More than ten years ago, Zhang Lu was invited to the Fukuoka Film Festival. Liuchuan was in Fukuoka Prefecture. He took the high -speed rail to play. As soon as I got there, I saw a river flowing under the willow trees. It was elegant and gentle, and I thought about it. What would it look like if there was a girl named Liuchuan who came to Liuchuan?

He said casually to his peers that he would come here to make movies in the future. Unexpectedly, the chairman of the film festival publicly talked about this joke publicly, and I had to shoot. From time to time, he remembered: "I always feel that I owe Liuchuan."

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Liuchuan dances on the street

He hadn't watched Ni Ni's movie before. He first saw a few photos, and then watched "Jinling Thirteen Sisters". He learned that she was from Nanjing and a southern girl. He felt appropriate. Later, I met with each other, "I think the girl is particularly good, soft, and very arrogant."

After setting up the actor, he studied Ni Ni's resume and found that she had won the Jiangsu Province National Standard Championship when she was a child, so she arranged a dancing scene. "I said to Xin Baiqing, you can jump clumsy, Ni Ni must jump well. Ni Ni jumps well.

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The two brothers shouted "Achuan", one shouting "Chuan Er", there is a story behind

As for the actor, he requested that he must be the same as the people in the play. He had to be Beijing, and Zhang Luyi and Xin Baiqing were Beijing.

"Of course, the actor can imitate the Beijing dialect, but the aunt in the hutong will scold and pretend at it." He knew that "this aunt can't take the box office how many box office", but he cares about these small parts. He felt that the movie was made for a certain area, or even a person in an alley. "Anyway, I watched the movie myself, and when I heard it, if the accent was lying to me, I couldn't stand it. I didn't want to make friends with that director."

He called "making movies for the world" as "want to cheat money" and "commercial films" as "enemy camp". When talking about this topic, he is more direct than anyone else and has a clear position.

However, more often, Zhang Lu is still an ambiguous one.

What is the next story?I didn't want to understand.Where to shoot?I didn't want to understand.At this age, are you ready to settle in Beijing?It's hard to say, I moved to other cities again.His explanation was: Because now, everyone has no hometown, leaving only other peoples.

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