Guan Hu's director Peng Yuyan starred in "Dog Array", Cannes won the award, which was released nationwide on June 15

The film Dog Array, directed by Guan Hu and starred by Peng Yuyan and Tong Liya, won the best film award in the "one concern" unit at the 77th Cannes International Film Festival. The film will also meet mainland audiences soon on June 15. A week ago, Dog Array held its world premiere in Cannes. Director Guan Hu, leading actors Peng Yuyan, Tong Liya, Jia Zhangke and Zhou You appeared to watch the film with the audience.

"Dog Array" is different from Guan Hu's previous films such as "Bullfight", "Kill Life", "Chef and Playboy". It is a purely literary film, without genre film skills. The story took place two months before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in a northwest township called Chixia. The economy here is bad, the population is flowing out, and wild dogs are swarming. In order to develop and create a good environment for the introduction of the factory, the relevant departments organized a patrol team to catch dogs. Peng Yuyan plays Erlang, who returns to the town after being released from prison, and enters the patrol team under the arrangement of the police students. In the process of catching the dog, he established an emotional connection with a black dog that bit him. This is also the work of director Guan Hu, who once again took people and animals as the main characters after "Bullfight" after 15 years. Although animal actors have a very heavy role, it is different from pet movies. "Dog Array" shows the collision and redemption of two lives, and is the power and hope brought by the surging vitality.

Guan Hu said, "This is the most enjoyable shooting". He led the whole team to shoot for nearly four months in Gobi, Gansu, where there is almost no mobile phone signal. He stood at a distance, with an objective and calm perspective, presenting the environment with a large number of medium and long-term perspectives, and the people in the environment, promoting the story through the details of life. This also makes Peng Yuyan, a star actor with distinctive characteristics, infinitely weakened in the movie. Erlang is a silent person. Peng Yuyan has few lines and needs a lot of eyes and body details to show the characters. He admitted that "this is an unprecedented shooting experience". In the film, Erlang saves Black Dog from the cage of the dog beating team, and Black Dog also saves Erlang from the loneliness without support; Outside the show, Peng Yuyan also forged a deep friendship with Black Dog. He not only joined the group in advance to train with dog actors, but also adopted Black Dog after he was killed. He even took the dog to the seaside of Cannes and the award ceremony.

Director Guan Hu delivered his acceptance speech and said: "My father (Guan Zongxiang) is an old actor. He has been joking with me all the time, saying that it would be great if he had a chance to send him to the podium, but there is no chance. I think he will smile when he is watching in the sky tonight. Our film tells a story of "going back on the road". I hope that everything tonight will turn into a force to help us go back on the road, always on the road. " (Sun Jiayin, reporter of Xinmin Evening News)