Set in a small Quebec town in the late-1920′s, this emotional drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film pianist. Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually marries her. Shortly after this she bears his son, Pierre, who joins the army. She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son. Pierre is killed in the war, and Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist. She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up. Her son becomes a painter and once his own son, Antoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother. Intrigued, Antoine heads to the Big Apple in hopes of finding her.
This movie is an emotional drama about how Antoine, played beautifully by François Méthé, discovers the details of his heritage. This film won many awards in Canada and at Cannes in 1988. François Méthé, who was about 11-years-old, never acted again after this movie.
From IMDb:
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who’s about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
解剖的画面就跟 你说今晚吃炒肝脏一样自然轻易，这也是这部电影的问题，解释太多，我不想知道肝脏是哪头畜生身上的，也不想知道它是怎么摆在我面前的，我只是一个餐桌前的食客，这么坐下来，然后吃。
看不懂的、名导导的、名演员演的，一律算好片。
身体真实终难胜过政治真实，晕目的风光也只被暗陨的凄凉代替。或许改造不等于进化，自然也天生建构不了理想。手术疮疤的反复开闭也只是开闭。
这个色彩和设定太挑战人的生理极限了，但探讨的主题我非常喜欢。人类早晚要用身体去感知自己对环境犯下的罪行，并且失去之所以能被称为“人”的所谓主体性。故事的寓言感很强，就只是结束得实在过于仓促了，再一看这个时长，确实还是先天不足。
为什么Viggo这么喜欢蹲着，全程气泡音，有点担心他的喉咙，喝点gollum juice
台词真的非常“当代艺术策展文案”🌚
看一半睡着了 身体改造+颅内高潮爱好者狂喜
是我的艺术鉴赏力不够了 55555我的两个老婆同框了 蕾老师英语进步好大
在硬盘里放了一周才看的。讲的其实就还是那么一回事吧，没什么太新的地方，主题并不“未来”，所谓异化云云还是停留在官能层面，边缘群体等元素的设定全面而不深入，导致全片整体上流于形式，符号化明显。
在一位艺术家眼中
挺福柯/德勒兹的，高级sm就是绞刑架下的高潮
环保宣传片，如果人类不控制塑料的生产和使用，将来就得吃塑料。三星半
看到三分之二，忽然理解到一条暗线，片子里很多人说话说不自然不清楚（或者干脆喉咙有问题），是在暗指传统交流不畅。性除了政治，还是一种交流方式，当传统性爱不再奏效，喷别人一脸术语可能也是一种文爱——甚至文爱了半天，才想起来是可以接吻的。说来说去还是马克思所强调的恢复身体的感觉（为什么不让身体引导你呢？）
这样炸裂的设定加上柯南伯格擅长的身体恐怖元素想想都会很好看，然而观感却是晦涩又无聊，感官刺激仅仅是悬浮的表像，还不如蕾雅·赛杜的肉体来的实在。
感觉（至少）从《危险方法》开始，他的每一部电影都像是给自己创作方法写的说明书：有论题、论据，有清醒可辨的段落、Key Word、总结……就像解剖一具尸体一样。也即是像大脑一样感知和思考的电影，而不是用官觉去感知的。在以往（00年代以前？），身体恐怖还只是作为字面意义上的伤痕和畸变的形式出现，但之后便越来越少，到这部干脆就剔除了疼痛，而陌异感恰恰来自疼痛的消失。当大脑丧失了对躯体的知觉时，当一具躯体无论如何对它的大脑而言都无异于一具尸体时，它其中的器官如何相互沟通并像大脑一样开始感知和思考自身——这是《大都会》和《未来罪行》致力于展现的，柯南伯格在无政府和尸体的世界中打造智慧的身体（“生命”）。
有人说，牛比导演的老年作品都是可怕的自恋呓语，还真是这么一回事。
冰冷阴森，气质与氛围明显不讨大多数人的喜好。
概念很新奇，设定也很有趣，但故事本身乏善可陈，惺惺作态，实在大失所望…
抛去生理性的厌恶来审视这部影片，这是一部深刻、颠覆性的身体宣言。柯南伯格贬损了人世俗意义的精神性，骄傲地呐喊到“Body is reality. Body is politics.” 他以身体为中心建构了道德体系和政治体系，新器官的生长不再是一种病理性的错乱，也不需要一种切割术来对抗身体的进化；相反，身体的进化就是正确的内在美， 是真正的精神性的体现，由此支持了器官改造手术的合理性（因为是出于自己意愿），由此定义了新的性爱。最后一个如同圣女贞德的镜头升华了整部电影，Saul彻底抛弃了过去虚伪的反抗身体的艺术，而主动接受身体的变化，这是多么颠覆式的somatic enlightenment!
只是行为艺术的主题，咱也看不懂。
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