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.
# 78 Venezia # 能把这么多戏精放一起然后呈现出如此平凡无奇的效果也算是导演的一大功力所在，神了！
Olivia Coleman精湛的演技让整个故事的矫揉造作感达到了巅峰。一个中产白女一边写作一边丧偶式带娃，看似讨论了gendered labor，其实一直在motherhood、无病呻吟、戏谑的drama间来回蜻蜓点水、隔靴搔痒。女主对玩偶的obsession和海滩上的来客对女主的莫名敌意只是对气氛营造suspension，却对剧情毫无作用。真的想问一句：你在嘎哈？
“雨很大，像天在哭，雨一直下，像我的悲哀，好朋友要走了，留下我一个人。”两位主角，谭志刚在拍摄完后不久便在车祸中丧生，而颜正国，后来也因为各种罪名入狱，少年吔，安啦！罗大佑和林强太帅。
演员当导演的话，优势在于更能与演员产生奇妙的化学反应，但是劣势在于欠缺一些技法和对于整部电影的掌控，导致电影时常陷于演员的情绪中无法抽离，显得矫揉造作。这部片子也是这样的问题，剪辑有点问题导致闪回的段落语焉不详、有点莫名其妙，破坏了整体的节奏，看着实在让人泄气。PS，科曼的表演没问题的，不过其他那些小配角就不一样了，大材小用。
看了超高糊版，有点懵，四星是因为我太爱这部片子的音乐了
上个项目的摄影推荐给导演的片例，据说故事概念和情节非常相似。项目结束才有时间打开，虽然没看出多少相似，但被影像风格调度深深吸引，尤其前三十分钟，好看。
【NYFF59】惊艳的处女作，在4.5和5星之间挣扎。虽然要承认欠缺了蛮多东西，但那种浮于表面又不点破的精巧真的很讨我的喜欢……看完觉得昨天的平行母亲好像错位了，这部才是真·平行母亲，生育是女性永远的痛苦，直面苦逃离更苦。最后大字强烈赞美OST！作曲简直太完美了！把电影推向另一层次的完美！
题材是讨喜，但拍摄手法真的太堆砌以及故弄玄虚了，看得想咆哮。
一个女人忘不掉的情绪，在感情处理上暗流涌动危机四伏
一个感情创伤的人，内心深处就是一部惊悚片。而这部片子的长度，可能是他的一生。想起郑智化的《成熟》：那成熟了一半的女人/和成熟了一半的我/在那成熟了一半的世界/做出了成熟一半的事/那成熟了一半的青春/和了成熟了一半的爱/在那成熟了一半的岁月/谱成了成熟了一半的歌
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很写实，很贴近，很降噪——这些态度让作品的技巧显得似乎无足轻重但是，太模糊甚至夸张一点讲，太粗糙了，脉络中的因素几乎是平的，没有凹凸。与相似主题的日影——首先想到北野武——差距是明显的。7+
看完后，有一种很温柔的感觉，整部片还蛮本土的（跟最近一些不怎么好看的台湾黑社会片比），尤其是描写生活内容，例如毒品、性和脏话（不过不会整天开枪就是了），蛮贴近以前听那些后来跑去混的朋友说的 ＝ ＝（1）看了下staff，蛮意外有监制是侯孝贤（刚好今天有想之后重看《再见南国》），又黑帮生活又林强的歌，除了镜头语言和写实的侧重点（感觉侯比较喜欢挑社会关系或人物情感，其他生活的表现比较隐晦或删去，相对来说就比较唯美些），总让我有种这是《南国再见》和《千禧曼波》底前导片的感觉，基本元素大致上都有了
“今嘛这个世界 亲像当在变
少年不要太冲动，在外地没有亲戚保护的情况下，还不知天高地厚，结果出事了。
最大问题是倒叙结构并没能成功辅助后半段情感递进，只能全靠演员表演和配乐来硬顶。
导演所要表达的是为人母亲的沉重感、责任感和内心渴望逃离的心绪，只是在呈现上让我觉得困惑，角色的一些行为、动机莫名其妙，感觉就是立意先行惹的祸。
音乐很有意思。野生“人类学家”的田野观察，并且把自己的情感史融入了进去。孤独、敏感、细腻、饥渴的中年女性更年期危机，理解起来还是有点难度。
精彩的开篇后，到结束也没出现我期待的类型元素
有点奇妙，昨晚刚看了时时刻刻，两部都有描画束缚于家庭中的女性心灵上的困境，选择离开令人窒息的生活是无奈不舍的不负责之举，也是肆意活出自我的必然选择，正如时时刻刻最后所说“当你别无选择时再后悔当初做的决定已毫无意义”，重要的是与过去的自己和解。
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