《夜鶯》是2010年《中法電影合拍協議》簽署以來的第二部中法合拍片（第一部是王小帥的《我11》），法國導演將自己2002年的祖孫情電影《蝴蝶》搬到了中國。小公主的父親（秦昊）是北京最好的建築師，母親（李小冉）是商業精英，一家人看似模範家庭，實則因為忙碌而情感疏離。一次機緣巧合，父親要飛香港、東京，母親得去巴黎談生意，傭人必須參加兒子婚禮，小公主只能和爺爺（李保田）一起千里迢迢回廣西陽朔老家。選在山水甲天下的廣西拍攝不只為了山明水秀，也要讓城市小公主回歸大自然。夜鶯的歌唱能否讓疏離的現代家庭重新和解團聚？
The Nightingale is the second Sino-French co-production (the first being Wang Xiaoshuai’s 11 Flowers) since the signing of a co-production treaty in 2010. Philippe Muyl adapts his 2002 old-man-and-neglected-girl-bonding film The Butterfly (Le papillon) to a Chinese megacity context. The Little Princess Renxing’s father (Qin Hao) is the best architect in Beijing and her mother (Li Xiaoran) a business executive. Apparently, it’s a perfect family but in reality they are emotionally estranged. One day, the father is flying to Hong Kong and then Tokyo; the mother has a business deal to settle in Paris; the maid has to attend her son’s wedding. The Little Princess has no choice but to follow her grandfather back to his rural hometown in Yangshuo, Guangxi. Guangxi’s celebrated scenic landscape is not just for cinematographic consumption but also for the urban princess to return to nature and for the alienated family to reconcile and reunite. |
