本周五，《兰心大剧院》（Saturday Fiction）上映。这部影片曾入围2019年威尼斯电影节主竞赛单元（competition）。早在内地上映之前，就颇受外国影评人的关注。
该片改编自虹影的《上海之死》及日本作家横光利一（Yokomitsu Riichi）的《上海》，讲述了一个发生在1941年的谍战故事（espionage tale）。
故事中，巩俐饰演的大明星于堇返回“孤岛时期（solitary island）”的上海，名义上是排演旧情人（old flame）——导演谭呐的新戏《礼拜六小说》，但不少人却怀疑她是为了营救被76号特务组织逮捕的前夫。可事实上，在风云诡谲的上海，精通英语、日语的于堇却身负另一个重要使命，她成功与否，甚至关系到整个二战的战局扭转（turn the tide）。
影片有着娄烨强烈的影像风格，在黑白乃至故意做旧的光影中，洗去了上海的灯红酒绿。大量的长镜头(long take)和手持摄影的拍摄，摇晃的画面也许会让部分观众有眩晕的感觉，但同时也会让观看者身临其境，有种跟着角色们步步惊心的浸入感。
在影片中，巩俐又奉献了教科书般的演技。正如娄烨曾说过，请了巩俐的好处，是她本来就是个大明星，这一点倒是不用演。但巩俐的好，是无论演谁，戏里，她都成了那个角色。
“戏中戏”的结构，和空间时间的模糊切换，也让这部影片呈现出比商业谍战片远为丰富的高级感，于乱世情仇中探究人性的复杂。
不久前，在第十一届北京国际电影节上，巩俐作为“天坛奖”评委会主席，也曾邀请《兰心大剧院》的主创们——导演娄烨、演员赵又廷和张颂文——做客她的大师班。
张颂文回忆起一段2002冬天的往事，也从一个侧面说明了巩俐作为演员的敬业。
In the winter of 2002, Zhang Songwen, who is now an award-winning actor known for the smash hit The Bad Kids, stumbled upon a tale about Gong Li, an internationally recognized Chinese film star.
当时还是北京电影学院助教的张颂文，租住了刘佩琦的一个小公寓。北京冬日寒冷，好心的刘佩琦告诉张颂文，房间里有个塞满杂物的柜子，里面有棉服，如天气太冷，他可自行取用。那年暖气来得晚，张颂文冻得瑟瑟发抖，就想起了那个柜子。却不料，一打开柜门，一个红色封面的笔记本滚落在地。封面上写着——“《秋菊打官司》拍摄日记”。
Then working as a teaching assistant at the Beijing Film Academy, Zhang had rented an apartment from another actor, Liu Peiqi, who told Zhang he could also use his cotton-padded jackets to keep warm in the chilly weather of the city. A native of South China's Guangdong province, Zhang felt quite cold one day and opened Liu's closet and saw a red-cover notebook, with the writing, "Work log from the shooting of The Story of Qiu Ju".
距那个冬天的十年之前，巩俐以倔强村妇秋菊的形象，一举斩获威尼斯电影节的最高荣誉金狮奖，她也凭借《秋菊打官司》成为首位获得威尼斯最佳女主角奖的华人演员。在这部张艺谋导演的经典中，刘佩琦饰演的是秋菊的丈夫万庆来。对于影迷而言，这部影片有着很高的地位。所以，当张颂文回忆起，当时他激动到颤抖着去读这本日记时，在座的听众大多也并不感到惊讶。
In 1992, the film, starring Gong as a rural pregnant woman who stubbornly seeks justice, won the Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice International Film Festival, and also earned her the best actress award. The film was helmed by China's top director Zhang Yimou, with Liu playing a major character in it. A decade after the glorious moment for Chinese cinema, The Story of Qiu Juhad become a must-watch for film enthusiasts in the country, and Zhang Songwen's hands trembled as he started to read the notebook.
蹲在地上整整读了三个小时后，张颂文印象最深刻的是这么一篇。刘佩琦这么回忆：“我到车站的时候，剧组的同志来接我，我们在站台聊天，再坐着大巴车回去。在车上，我才发现接我的人里面有小俐（巩俐），我居然没认出来。她竟然已经变成了当地的农村妇女。后来一问剧组的同志，我才知道她提前一个月就在一个当地农村人家住。”
After squatting on the ground and reading the notebook for three hours, Zhang Songwen says he was most impressed by the part that mentions the arrangements made for the cast and crew members to experience rural life and study a local dialect in northern China. Liu took a train ride to a small city and was received at the railway station by a group of people, including Gong, but Liu didn't recognize her until hours later. The actress had been living in a villager's home and doing farm work for a month, making her look like a local.
其实，体验生活、尽可能地接近角色，对巩俐而言，是她工作中再寻常不过的一部分。在采访中，巩俐曾告诉《中国日报》，她通常都会用两到三个月的时间，提前来准备她的角色。
Gong told China Daily it has become a habit for her to leave two or three months ahead of filming to prepare for her roles.
在拍摄《兰心大剧院》时候，娄烨导演曾让巩俐在黑暗中练习拆装枪械。巩俐自己摸黑在酒店里练了很多个晚上，可看成片的时候却发现，那个镜头竟然被删掉了。但巩俐表示了理解，她说：“没事，我也明白，这个技能需要长在于堇身上，拍不拍都不重要了。导演让你做的事情肯定是有原因的。”
When shooting her latest film, Saturday Fiction, Gong, whose character leads double lives as both an actress and a spy, trained to swiftly load a firearm in darkness, repeating the process many times until the skill "almost turned into a physical instinct". The gun-loading scene was cut from the final version ofSaturday Fiction, but Gong Li said: "It's fine. I can understand the directors' decisions as such intensive trainings can help an actress to 'become' her characters by possessing techniques."
而此前，巩俐在为拍摄陈可辛导演的《夺冠》作准备时，也曾跟随郎平待了两周，仔细观察郎平的讲话方式和动作习惯，从而让不少观众看过片花后惊叹：这也太像了，要是她（巩俐）不转身，还真以为是郎平本人！
Gong shadowed Lang Ping, the former head coach of the national women's volleyball team, for two weeks to observe and learn how she talked and gave instructions, as an effort to realistically portray the legendary figure in director Peter Chan's sports blockbuster, Leap(2020).
采访那天，巩俐穿着白色毛衣，看上去随和而平易近人。尽管在网上，有不少粉丝被她强大的气场折服，纷纷称呼她为“巩皇”。可镜头之外的巩俐，在思索问题时，却有些羞涩，略略有些不善言辞，甚至还有些小调皮。
那一日，娄烨导演在大师班结束后，匆匆前往洗手间。巩俐突然兴起，和赵又廷一起轻手轻脚地“埋伏”在洗手间外的过道里，等到娄烨出来时，把猝不及防的导演吓了一大跳，此后巩俐对娄烨的拥抱和致谢，却又让那个狭窄的过道里满是温馨。
十月天气越来越冷，可电影院却“暖和”起来。无论你是否看懂了《兰心大剧院》，一个人静静看黑白光影的流转，终究是一场和电影纯粹的约会。
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