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.
暗藏晦涩的情愫与谋杀，压抑收敛的精妙表达。多处心理描写细节回想才能发觉，人物特征没有表面上看的简单，后劲足。
还是很吃简康平这一套，除了明示就是暗示，特别劲儿，开场画面就把角色框住了，然后稳了一个小时，进而除了相互试探就是托物言志，尼玛杰作
真是直白又“隐晦”，叙事掌控仿佛半放弃一般，但又必须在这种放弃之上，调度才能尽显功力，回看故事即便有些单薄，也很是有韵味了，赞一个。
我从未见过男主角这样傲慢无礼之人。电影开场10分钟，到了餐馆那场戏，他吼那个琴师我是真的忍无可忍了，实在看不下去，直接关了。
#TIFF 2021#明线是叔嫂之争，你勾引我哥哥，我就勾引你儿子，暗线却是落魄母子联手搞定土豪兄弟，好一出满是爱与占有的西部宫心计，在生存问题面前弱势群体也能爆发强大的力量，你以为的小白兔说不定是大灰狼，这可能就是所谓犬之力的含义吧~
什么鸡脖玩意，整片都以为卷福和邓斯特肯定有事儿，结果就是个儿子不喜欢酒鬼妈被欺负偷偷杀了牧场大哥的简单破事儿，就这么个烂故事要拍的这么用力吗，卷福有病啊接这么个玩意
整部电影几乎没有波澜的情绪，却又数度以试探的方式挑动着观者的神经。隐晦的观感，配合着电影里各种压抑的情绪，让观者跟着电影里的每一个人行走在情绪的边缘，跃跃欲试又欲言又止。每一组镜头都有自己独特的用意，每一个人物都有一种此时无声胜有声的悲怆。
焦虑、压抑、痛苦、暗中汹涌的情欲。我觉得非常好看。
虽然解读起来有点意思，但真的拍得好无聊哦。
满分佳作。西部风景美如画，卷福演了一个被嫌弃的自私暴躁老哥，爷们气过剩，卷福的出演有牺牲露出，迷妹的福利。弟弟是低配版马特达蒙，弟媳是初代蜘蛛侠女友，弟弟和弟媳的演员在现实中也是夫妻。片子氛围始终伤感，卷福更是孤单寂寞又狂野不羁，与文明的弟弟弟媳冲突不断。不紧不慢，非常享受的一次观影体验，可以打满分，因为好久没有这样沉浸到电影的世界里了
草太好了，看完头皮发麻，两个主演演的太好了，一颦一蹙举手投足让人怀疑是本色出演。这是一个可以发生在任何时代的故事，只是设置在了西部牧场，角色之间的牵引分裂才是全作的引擎。导演异常细腻的女性视角带来了非凡的西部牛仔体验，使泥浆血液变得情欲，使空气和灰尘变得暧昧，是断背山的升华。高空的航拍营造的高维视角让观众有了一种先验，我们不断从暗处窥探的事实只是表相，马棚即是摄影棚，从门缝透露的风光即是打光，导演在电影里编排了一出杰出的戏剧。
让女导演们拍拍西部片看吧！凯利雷查德的《第一头牛》余韵未过，坎皮恩的暗流涌动又一次让人振奋。坎皮恩的技法依然还是如此沉稳，阴冷的感觉十分刻骨，有些地方老让我莫名想起《血色将至》，看完一查配乐也是Greenwood，难怪有那么一时熟悉，尤其邓斯特卖牛皮那的配乐。整个电影一直都在筑堡垒，卷福饰演的哥哥像是不容侵犯的黑色柱体，而最后一瞬间这个让人喘息困难的堡垒轰然倒塌，而其废墟上则是更为阴冷复杂的人性。电影用极其冷淡的方式在推进故事，用大量的心理描写树立人物形象，有戏剧的小高潮也有对立的矛盾，但其不是主要，而是坎皮恩设立的那个复杂的人性泥沼一直在让观众觉得在下沉。哥哥内心的秘密用极其男权的方式去掩盖，Rose懦弱却在酒后才敢显露反抗，儿子阴柔却有缜密的心机，这一系列的人物才是犬之山真正的乌云。西部片也有了细腻
观影很长时间，我对本片都是困惑的，里面人物略显畸形的人物情感，是在暗示同性恋？乱伦？某种更羞于启齿的情感？全片的这种暗昧不明是对情欲相当高级的表达，值得品味再三。克斯汀·邓斯肯我仿佛看到了《忧郁症》时代的她。
对喜爱的兔子不带一丝情绪地痛下杀手；
直到最后一刻才展露邪魅一笑，稍纵即逝。
但看一场好戏上演，就像兔子落入少年的陷阱一般。
kodi的抽烟戏超性感，可太喜欢这种阴郁凶狠瘦弱美少年了
镜头调度出色，导演控制力极佳。只可惜叙事凌乱缺乏张力，平淡得难以忍受。简坎皮恩又怎样？奥斯卡加持又怎样？该给差评还是差评。
这个片子大概就是讨厌的觉得故弄玄虚，喜欢的觉得设计精妙，有点让我想到stoker当初给我的感觉。可能是我不懂欣赏（），但我看的时候一直觉得主角应该是马修麦康纳黑...美国西部片要复兴了吗
没看过原作的话，可能确实不太get得到一些情节。画面的呈现和演员表现都很棒，两个小时里没发生太多事，却不觉得冗长。但论及对人物的刻画，还是小说更细致深刻些。
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