Zhang Jiarui

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Early experience

When he was 16 years old, Zhang Jiarui contributed scripts to the county drama troupe, which was later adopted. In 1979, Zhang Jiarui applied for the director department of the Central Academy of drama. After his failure, he was admitted to Sichuan University. Because his political score in the college entrance examination was the top three in the province, he was transferred to the Department of philosophy. Influenced by the cinema near the University, Zhang Jiarui fell in love with movies.

In 1985, Zhang Jiarui was assigned to the Ministry of coal after graduation. In 1986, Zhang Jiarui was admitted to the director training class of Beijing Film Academy. After graduation, he entered the Qingying studio.

In 1988, he received the job of the first deputy director and worked with director teacher Han Xiaolei to make the suspense film master theft.

Acting experience

In 1991, he directed his first TV series "Sun pigeon", which started his career as a director. The film was starred by Guo Keyu. In 1994, he directed Wenzhou women, a drama co starred by Han zaifen and Guo Keyu. In 2001, he directed the drama "Guhai Qingshang", CO starring Li liming, Lei Zhenyu and Dong Yong.

In 2002, he directed the youth film "the seventeen year old of POMA", CO starred by Yang Zhigang and Li Min, which tells a beautiful youth story of POMA, a 17-year-old girl living in the deep mountains of Ailao in the Red River, and won the best film gold award at the French Kapp roving Film Festival.

In 2004, he directed the law of desire, a suspense crime film co starred by Xu Ziqing and Li Donglin. In 2005, he directed the love film "the bride with flower waist" co starred by Zhang Jingchu and Yin Xiaotian, which won the outstanding feature film award of the 11th China Film Huabiao award. Therefore, he was nominated for the outstanding director award of the 11th China Film Huabiao award.

In 2006, Zhang Jingchu, Fan Wei and Nie yuan co starred in the feature film fragrance journey, which tells the story of a woman's 40 year life journey and won the best picture pyramid award at the Cairo International Film Festival.

In 2009, he directed the love film "Red River" with the background of the post-war Sino Vietnamese border. The film, CO starred by Zhang Jiahui and Zhang Jingchu, tells the story of the love between the kind and innocent girl a Tao and the street gangster a Xia. He won the best film award of the 3rd Seoul Zhongwu Road International Film Festival, and he also won the best director award of the 16th Beijing University Film Festival.

In 2010, he and six other directors co directed the feature film "true call", which shows the family, love and friendship between Chinese people from different aspects, angles and regions through seven independent stories; in the same year, he directed the suspense film "Lost City", which was co starred by Huo Siyan and Ge siran, and won the award of the 17th Beijing University Film Festival jury He also won the best director award of the 13th Shanghai International Film Festival Media Award.

In 2013, he directed the love comedy lemon, which is co starred by Li William, Hong Xiaoxi and Jinsha. The film is about a beautiful and romantic transnational love between foreign men and women with different life paths because of lemon. In the same year, he directed the love suspense film shajie, which is co starred by Liu Ye and Ni Ni. The film is adapted from Yu Shengli's novels bright eyes and old six, He was nominated for best picture at the film channel media awards.

In 2015, he co directed the love comedy surprise all the way with Jin Yimeng, pan Anzi and Song Di. In 2016, he directed the youth love film "the age of innocence"; in the same year, he wrote and directed the literary love film "white wedding" co starred by Liu Yan, he Shengming and Lu Shan, which tells the story of a pair of brothers born in the countryside who pursue, grope and get lost in different urban and rural environments after an accident.

In 2017, he supervised the production of the drama "dinner for six" adapted from Lu Min's novel of the same name, the winner of Lu Xun's literature award, which tells the story of love, hate and separation between two single parent families and six protagonists in a heavy industry base in Yunnan in the 1990s.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Supervised production

Works of deputy director

Award winning record

Character evaluation

After Zhang Keng's entertainment, the most brilliant characters with the brand of his youth will be the burning ashes of his era.

Zhang Jiarui has been famous for his literary style since his debut. From the journey of fragrance to the Red River, many of his works have been focusing on the hearts of small people and the living conditions of the people at the bottom. He is also very good at packaging literary films in the form of commercial films. Zhang Jiarui is good at making films with new people, and Zhang Jingchu was discovered by him.

Character interview

Every Spring Festival, Zhang Jiarui, the director of fragrant journey, will go home for the festival, which is his habit of staying calm for many years, because "there is only one old mother at home.". As a filmmaker, I usually work hard outside. Spring Festival is the only day when I can go home and get together. But COVID-19 was hitherto unknown, and the time of the reunion was so long that when he enjoyed his mother's reunion, he saw the sad scenes of his fellow countrymen who were suffering from be caught off guard. During this period of time, he read Camus' novel plague at home. Although he read it many years ago, he felt totally different this time. He found that Camus had already made a brilliant description of the unknowability of the epidemic situation, the absurdity of life and all kinds of human struggles, which shocked him very much. He also re read Garcia Marquez's one hundred years of solitude, from which he felt a kind of "new solitude and human greatness".

Referring to the epidemic situation in Wuhan, he sighed repeatedly. Nearly one third of the scenes in his new work, the call through time and space, which has not yet been released, were shot in Wuhan. He photographed the Yangtze River Bridge, the Yellow Crane Tower and Wuhan University of technology from Wuhan to Yichang.

In the face of this once-in-a-hundred-year dangerous epidemic, director Zhang Jiarui repeatedly stressed that we must seriously reflect after the epidemic, especially in recent years, with the rapid development of economy, people's life is running at a high speed like a machine, which is coerced by the trend of the times, "we rarely stop to think about the meaning of survival, the meaning of life, the relationship between life and death as a person significance. I hope that each of us can reflect on the situation after the epidemic. The traditional Chinese culture stresses love for life and compassion, which tells us that we need to make some changes. "

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